Another Month - Again
February,
2012
For the fourth year, I gave
myself an assignment: I picked one month, and
made myself take a picture each day of that
month. As in the past, it could not just
be a “snapshot” – I had to actually try to get
a decent image. In addition, if I came
up with more than one good image, I could not
carry it forward to another day. In
previous years I restricted myself to using
only certain kinds of lenses.
Last year I used only a wide angle lens - this
year I tightened the restriction - I could use
only an ultra-wide angle lens (24mm and
wider). I had found that, in the past, the
majority of my images were shot with a slight
telephoto lens, so this definitely made it
even harder than last year. The
distortion, however, caused by the really wide
angle made for some interesting images.
I also, once again, picked the month of
February, which turned out to be not so good a
month for photogenic skies and also suffered
from excessive wind, and generally presented
rather unpleasant weather.
As is frequently the case in winter, some days
the weather or light was such that I really
would have liked to use one of the photos from
a prior day. As with previous years’
projects, there were also times that I had
trouble with coming up with a destination
and/or subject matter to photograph - and went
out with only a vague idea of what I was going
to shoot.
Here are this year’s results. They are,
yet again, quite different from previous
years'. As in the past, some are well
thought out and achieve the image I was going
after, while others just don’t quite hit the
mark. As always, however, the project
was rewarding, frequently in ways that I did
not expect. You be the judge...
All Previous
Years' Projects can be viewed here:
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