Day One: The Begining

This is the day I official start the apparent 365 photo challenge. I know a few, few, one of you should be especially excite about this, because you have tried to convince me to do this a few times and I know you'll nag me about it often enough if I forget a day. I want to take one photo a day to upload that has a little tiny story about that particular day and what it meant to my life.  Plus, I'm also taking a self-portrait everyday as the counters.

The photos I upload will depict 365 moments in my life through 730 photos. I want to tell the story of my life, even if only for myself to look back on in a few years. Everyone has a story to tell, and this is sorta mine.

I want to try and make sure I take one photo a day. I'm horrible at doing things on a daily basis and don't usually complete anything I want to. I'm hoping this is the one thing that changes all of that. I want to be able to love my photos again. No more of this, "Well, it's ok. It could be better, I just don't want to look at it anymore," kind of photos. And on the bright side, it's definitely good practice!

This is a photo of something I've wanted to take a photo of for a long time, I just never have. I figure in starting this blog/challenge/personal mountain to climb, it's about time for me to take this photo. However, I never imagined having it out of focus like this. The initial intent was to have the image in the background in focus and more of the rose in the shot. For laughs and giggles, I threw on a 3X filter and messed around with the shallow depth of field. Something about the color drew me to try playing with a part of the flower just barely out of focus.

Now, the story of this shot is not just as what preceded this paragraph, but it's one of the flowers my boyfriend gave me for our one year anniversary. I wanted to keep it, even though it was supposed to die. instead, I dried it and keep it in a small one flower vase in my bedroom.