As Camp NaNoWriMo was coming to an end,
I decided to figure out the next creative challenge to participate
in. I mean, I had done NaNoWriMo last November to great success, and
I did both Camps: April and July. The result was three manuscripts,
not bad at all. The total amount of time for all three of these was
somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 days. I know art cannot be
tangible, and I know that there is no real way to gauge creative
endeavors in a period of time. But I enjoyed the process all three
occasions and if I could stretch those days on from 50 to 500, I
would.
I don't know what it is about these
creative challenges I like so well, if nothing more, it is a
competition and I can work well with that. It could be that there is
a built in deadline and that deadline is not only close, it gets
closer with every moment.
So, there I was, finishing up Camp
NaNoWriMo and researching other creative challenges.
They are many of these challenges.
There are challenges for writers, filmmakers, musicians. They range
in time periods from 24 hours to one month. I would love to get
involved in the 24 or 48 hour film challenges, but alas, I would need
a whole team of people for that.
When I found SoFoBoMo, I was sold.
SoFoBoMo or Solo Photo Book Month, happens during any single 31 day
period from July 1 through August 31. The concept is simple: take at
least 35 images and put them into a PDF and your done.
Needless to say, I was up for the
challenge.
I've been a shutterbug for most of my
life. I've taken all sorts of photos and on all sorts of cameras.
When I take pictures, it has always been a way to record a day, or in
some cases, it has been a way to see a day. When you go out on a
photo excursion, you purposefully take a closer look at the day:
subjects, light, etc. And when this happens, you then record the day
with the filter of feelings, longing, examinations
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