What’s In Store For 2010

Lots.  Lots and lots.  But not too much. 

That’s really saying a lot, isn’t it. 

2010 will include a 365 photo-a-day challenge for myself.  It can be of anything.  Crafting, landscape, still life, favorite Brice moment, my car [Orange Chicken] on an adventure…anything.  Uploading them all to Flickr on time is a whole different story.

There will also be a 52 week photo-of-me challenge.  But it wont necessarily be my face, but just some aspect of myself (feet, elbow, hair, etc…).  I thought one a week would be better than once a day.  I don’t think I could photography myself everyday.  I’m not setting a day of the week to do it on, I just have to have one photo of myself between Sunday and Saturday. 

Both appropriate for the upcoming talks on photography, don’t you think.  It is a way to keep me active in my photography and to push myself to learn more and continue to improve my photos.  Perhaps one day I will call myself a photographer and have an honest to goodness profession with a real studio…but that would be several years down the line.  For now I want to enjoy and play and learn and grow. 

In 2010 I will print my favorite photos and frame them, instead of letting them linger on my hard drive.  I will put photos up for sale in my shop on my personal website.  I will create calendars in time for 2011 sales. 

I will continue to exercise at least three times a week and go at least two miles on the elliptical (two months of that under my belt now).  I will also fight the urge to worry on my nails and let them grow so they are prettier to look at in step-by-step photographs (two weeks down and they are looking great!).  I will learn to love my toe-thumbs just the way they are.  It’s a sign of royalty, after all. 

I will keep my promise to Liz to complete a project that has been talked about for over six months now. 

But none of these are resolutions.  I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions because I am only setting myself up for failure.  These are goals that I hope to achieve.  In the 5th grade I had a teacher that told us how important it was for us to write down our goals in list form and keep them with us.  He would pull out his list from his wallet and show us that he did just that.  I always took that to heart.  While I don’t usually write my goals on paper, I keep a running list in my head of the important things.  But I do think lists are important.  If you write a list, things get done and there is a great sense of accomplishment when you get to cross them off as finished.  I love making lists and I always go back to them and make sure there is SOMETHING I can cross off.  So here is my list for 2010.  If I don’t succeed 100% in everything, that is okay, at least I know that I set some “goals” for myself for the coming year.  That is what’s more important for me. 

I look back on this last year of my life, a side of my life that I don’t share here and I find that I am very proud of myself and that I am a much stronger woman than I gave myself credit for (believe me, I've always known I was strong, so that is saying something).  Maybe one day I will be able to share everything with you, but for now I like to reflect on how positive I’ve kept myself and I really couldn’t have done it without this space and everyone that stops by to offer their encouragement to me in the form of a comment.  So thank you to everyone for stopping by in 2009 and I look forward to sharing my adventure (and following all of yours) in 2010.