Project 52 ~ Week 1 {Let It Rain, Let It Rain, Let It Rain...}

I've often thought about doing one of those projects where you take a picture each day of the year.  I've followed photographers who have done it, and it seems really cool...but, at the same time, it seems like a lot of work.  Coming up with something inspiring every day?  Every day?  Are you kidding me?  Some days I don't feel like I have time to take a breath, much less take a picture.  So... I've never done it.  But, here we are in a new year.  A new beginning.  A new chance to be great, and I thought why not now?  A photographer that I follow is sponsoring a year long project that she is calling Project 52.  One great image every week taken just for me.  For the enjoyment of my lens.  For love of the craft.  Perfect...I'm in!

 

The theme that I'd been given for this first week was Something Around The House.   I found myself having a hard time getting inspired. I did a week-long project last year that involved photographing various things around my house, so I really felt like anything I did for this would just be revisiting what I had already done for that.  I thought about just using something that I'd already shot, but it kind of felt like cheating.  Phoning it in.  I kept looking around my house, trying to find something that grabbed me.  Come on!  Engage!  Let's go!!  I was about to forget it for the week, when I looked out the window and saw the rain on the Christmas lights.  We haven't taken them down yet, so, technically, they're still "around the house."  I'd done an similar image with frost, but never with rain.  I loved the way the water was falling in droplets all over the bulbs.  And there it was...Week 1.

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