I've always wanted to do a 365 photo a day challenge, but I can just never stick to it. I somehow managed to do an entire year of One Second Everyday in 2022, but snapping a photo always alludes me. I really want to give it a try though, and I felt inspired after seeing someone else's 365 on Flickr. Something about viewing their photos really clicked for me, in how it gave an impression of the man and told a story of his life. I think when you do a photo a day it can be hard not to make it into some kind of vanity project and let your ego take over to try and make each day look a certain way or project a certain image, and looking at this man’s photos showed me how much power there is in the simple everyday, and how honest that is. It also gets me using my camera, a habit I'm trying to get more into. I'm always scared to take my camera places, and I'd like to lose that fear.
I haven't managed to be as consistent as I may have liked (and I had an SD card corrupt on top of that!) but here is my June. I hope to do one of these posts to wrap up each month, however much I capture of it.
I went to an antiques fair, and they had a table of Victorian stationery. I loved this ladies notebook, and realising that we're not so different.
When I shipped my Polaroid camera home from Korea the films inside were ruined, so I had the idea to draw on them with my Poscas. Two of the images had some photo on which I built on, the others I tried to find an image out of the damage. It was fun because usually I put a lot of detail into my work, so it was a challenge to keep it simple and not overwork it.
A swarm of bees! They were very gentle and curious.
June was the month of the Jellycat. I've wanted one of these little cloud bags for the longest time (I always use the cloud emoji ☁ and clouds feel kind of like my symbol or trademark) but I told myself it was impractical. And maybe it is, but I love the whimsy so I finally bought it and using it made me feel so authentically me in a way that I haven't felt in ages. I've been shuffling around the edges far too much lately afraid of being noticed, and wearing a silly little cloud with feet felt oddly powerful. It's the kind of thing I used to wear when I was in Japan but feel too afraid to wear back home, but I proved to myself that I can. And maybe this is too much emotion to put onto a plush, but it gave me a lot of big feelings that I'm really thankful for.
Ooops 🙈
The cows were a recurring theme. The farmer left the gate open, so they escaped and all congregated on my neighbours front yard. I often stop to look at the cows on my daily rambles, so I don't know if they recognised me from that but as soon as they saw me they followed me without any encouragement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've had these beads for a long while, so finally threaded them up into a necklace.
You can always find me after a concert scrabbling around on the floor, scooping up the confetti into my bag to put in my journal
The cows were back at it again, this time waking everyone first thing in the morning. I was cackling from my window.
I purchased an Instax Mini Evo and tested it against my Instax Mini 40. The Evo is a digital printer and camera, but you can check the photos before they print so it's not true analogue. I wanted to take two photos of the same thing under the same lighting conditions to see how the two cameras compare and I love the Evo even if it's not 'truly' instant. Yeah real instant photography is fun, but I'm over wasting money on photos that don't come out well, or are framed weird because the viewfinder isn't in the right place.
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