Thoughts on wrapping up another 365

Finishing up week 48 and thinking back at 2019 as a whole, I had a few things I wanted to jot down.

The first few months of 2019 had a unique set of challenges -  a new baby in the house and a super tired and hormonal me. During that time, I really forced myself to shoot and didn’t really put too much effort into it.  Those four months of maternity leave felt like a blur and I was just going through the motions.  I felt like all my photos were crap.  Hardcore crap. 

In hindsight though, I was a little hard on myself.  Going through those early 2019 images, most of them have am honest and unscripted feel to them.  A true window of what was going on at the time.  While I’ve always labeled myself as a lifestyle photographer, I switched gears and really moved more in to just documenting what was going on at the time, because I had no time to do much else. 

Just documenting my day to day without all the fuss has really influenced the stories I want to tell now, and hopefully in the future. I’ve gotten much better at capturing scenes as they naturally unfold as opposed to trying to recreate one with a perfect expression or in perfect light (Tbh, I don’t think I shot a single golden hour photo all year!).

Now that life has settled down into a new normal, I’m kind of excited to see where 2020 takes us, and how year 7 of this project will evolve.  

Enough with my rambling and onward to photos.