I find it hard to free up time for photography.
I work a full time job from 9am to 5pm, then head straight home to help make dinner, spend a bit of time with the family, then help clean up and get my daughter to bed. My free time starts around 9pm, and I usually push myself to accomplish some personal goal before I pass out around midnight. Sometimes it seems like an accomplishment just taking some time for myself to not think about anything and simply relax.
So, one of the first thoughts that came across my mind when discovering SoFoBoMo was, "would I have enough time to do that? to create my own photo book in just one month?"
It's taken me three years to come up with the 21 photos that I feel worthy of posting online in my "Beginnings" series - and even then, I know that many of those images could be improved by taking more time in Photoshop. Of course, that never really solidified into a project until I started this website a few months ago. Up until then, they were just part of a large collection of raw photos sitting on my hard drive. My photography had no direction.
SoFoBoMo will be different though - my first real photography project with tangible goals. I'll be held accountable to produce good work within a set time - especially since it's something I'll be blogging about publicly.
For my project, I'll need to pick a series of photos that can be taken within my time constraints - which means either in my house at night or while out and about over a couple of weekends. Or, do I use this as an opportunity to take a vacation to some exotic locale for one week in April? Hmm ...
Now that I think about it, the first sentence I wrote isn't quite right (so I'll cross it out). It should be:
I need to pick specific goals in my photography, so that I can plan my time accordingly.
It's time to stop making excuses and start taking pictures.
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