52 pictures of me

Last year I took a picture of me each week. I had loose rules that included shadows and one bit of me, such as hands or feet.  I managed to keep it up for each week.

So last week I was faced with deciding how to use 52 pictures of me for a 2 page spread.  I decided not to do them chronologically as there is no discernable change.  I had been thinking of a square grid but when I came down to the creation process that was just not exciting me.  So I was looking through my digi templates and came across two sets of hexagon grids by C Livesay (Design House Digital) and decided to give them a go.

I grouped my photos roughly by type so this page has all of the feet photos and the hand photos and all the shadows are on the second page

I’m happy with the hexagon grid and will use it again.

I think the photos give a nice snapshot of the year.  I’m not repeating the project this year, although I do have a photo of me for the first 2 weeks of the year – I think I’ve got the habit now of using the self timer on the camera regularly.

On Wednesday I’ll be posting my current weekly photo project – look up – look down.  I’m delighted that two blogfriends – Miriam and Alison are joining me on this project.  Happy to have others join in too. 

52 photos of me – instalment 2

I’ve kept up with the project I accidently started in January to take a photo of myself every week.

For this set I applied the soft faded effect from the Pioneer Woman to all of them because the top left one needed attention due to poor indoor light and then I decided to to the same to all.

I love that the strong colour in my shirt in the top right photo survived being faded.  It and the photo bottom left were taken a week apart but could be 2 sides of the same photo.

The bottom right photo was my one for this week because I’m much more aware of thinking about washing my hands here in Bangladesh – because of the ever present dust; because of the lack of soap and clean towels in some places; and because the cleanliness of what I put in my mouth is a more present thought  (no problems yet – and that’s probably already too much information!!!).

The background to the photos is a texture from Pixel Dust Photo Art – called yesteryear.  I’m liking using textures instead of papers at the moment.

this time it is all about me!

Looking through the photos I have taken this year I realised that there is a photo of me in each week – five of them when I was in New Zealand (and no I did not spend the entire holiday in the same green top!!)

I think this is something that I could keep up for the other 46 weeks of 2012, with a broad interpretation to include shadows, parts of me, reflections etc.  So I now have an unanticipated project for the year – 52 pictures of me.  As I turn 50 this year it seems appropriate as a project to mark the milestone.

Have you started any yearlong projects without realising it?

[The layout is derived from a Kate Pertiett template.]