Challenge!

Throughout February, I challenged myself to take a photo a day using my digital camera (Canon 1100D) rather than my iPhone. This challenge has turned out to be, ironically, challenging! To be honest, I have been lazy. I haven't taken my camera with me when I go out or I've been too self-conscious to take it out of my bag while I'm around people. I also love taking photos of people but I'm too scared to ask because I worry that they'd laugh at me or wouldn't want their photo taken. I would love to have photos of my flat mates and friends at university. I dreamed of taking hundreds of photos of everyone and everything but that hasn't happened. I tend to take photos for Instagram of either myself or sunrises/sunsets.

While I'm hard on myself for being lazy, I have had a lot of work to do at university. It has been hard this semester because there is just such a large amount of reading to do and weekly essays to write! I admit I have struggled.

Also, I haven't published the photos that I did manage to take because I haven't had the time to edit them. When I do edit them, I tend to want to make them perfect. It's an unachievable goal.

So for the rest of the week I am going to challenge myself to take my camera with me every day. Even if I don't get time to take a photo, at least I've had the equipment with me. Do you ever go out without your camera, see something you like and realise that you've missed a great opportunity? I do this all the time! Now it's going to stop.

Next week is Personal Development Week which means all lectures and seminars are cancelled so that everyone can have one to one tutorials and catch up on assignments. I'm planning to go home towards the end of next week which means I'll hopefully get a chance to go to some new places and take lots of photos. My Step Mum asked me today about a place we went to in 2014. Neither of us remembers where it was because she had taken us on a "Magical Mystery Tour" which we used to do a lot. She'd drive and drive until we ended up somewhere we hadn't been before or to our favourite beach. It didn't matter about the end destination, we would just be enjoying the journey and go wherever the car took us.

That's it for now,

Kazia x