Marsha's Song

This post will probably ramble, so if you want to stop reading now, that's OK with me.  Sometimes, I can't even read other people's rambles.  The title of this blog is A Photo a day.  The actual URL reads a photoortwoaday because aphotoaday was already taken on Blogger.  Not like that really matters because I had high hopes when I first started and then life got in the way.

For example, it's been 16 days since my one and only post for this year.  I could make excuses and say I've been busy playing with my new lens and that would be partially true.  But I'm not sure it's that honest.  True, I have been doing a lot of different things but one of them has been playing computer games.  Yeah, I've set up our old computer in the back bedroom and all three of us (the boys of the family) have been using the computer to play various games.

So I've gotten lazy if we want to be perfectly honest and I need to get away from that.  I've actually been timing myself on the "gaming" computer and trying to limit myself to an hour at a time.  That doesn't always work, but it's a start in the right direction.  Some might say a better start would be to not play games at all.  Yeah, well there's that, but I find computer games entertaining and relaxing.

But to get back to my photo a day project.  Three years ago, I started a photo project called 365.  The purpose was to get people to go out and try and take a photo every single day for an entire year.  Well, I succeeded in that endeavor and continued on for a second straight year.  730 days later, I posted my first "filler" shot, a shot not taken on that particular date.  

I started a third year on January 1st, 2013, but it eventually ran out of steam sometime in May of that year. I couldn't keep up a pace of a photo a day, nor did I want to at that point, so I quit.  I had personal reasons for starting the project in 2011 and those reasons didn't exist anymore, so it was time to let go of the 365 Project.  But, in case you haven't been paying close attention, I've decided to start up the 365 project again.  

It's a little bit more loose fitting in that I won't be adhering to the photo taken on that date.  I want my shots to be quality shots.  I say that as I posted a photo of my spaghetti sauce cooking on the stove for today's shot, taken with an iPad and not my regular camera.  Don't ask, it's just a long story.  However, most of the shots I've taken and posted so far this year, I feel are quality shots, which is what I'm aiming for this year.

Every year I put together a calendar for my parents and my father-in-law.  My parent's calendar is easier from a photographic standpoint because my two sisters get two thirds of the calendar and I get the other third, so finding enough family photos for four months is pretty easy.  Finding family photos for an entire year is a little more difficult, especially when one person isn't highly represented. 

Because my wife works longer hours than I do, she's harder to get into photos, so I've made a concentrated effort to get her into more photos.  I've even started a series of photos entitled "Grow Old with Me."  Each of these so far have just featured her hands.  I'll probably include other shots in this series that feature more than just her hands, but for now, please enjoy these three from the series.  

My favorite singer, John Denver, wrote a song to his wife Annie.  I can't write music, but I can take photos.  This series is Marsha's Song.