Just CLICK!

I cherish moments like these. It's SO easy to capture my children and their father doing those day to day memorable things. It's truly what being a photographer is all about for me. I wish there was a way to magically have a camera around automatically taking pix of those special moments of ME with my kids. How cool would that be!? Now... that being said... I realize that was what my "52 week project" was supposed to be all about. Capturing as many moments I could each week and blogging them. That was a VERY hard project for me. If any of you even followed my posts on that project, you're aware of the fact that I failed miserably after about 6 or 7 weeks in!!! OOOh how sad is that???? It was not for lack of trying, but more so the fact that my kids started to resent me when I came around with my camera. LOL Getting pix of just them alone or them together... or with their dad is easy. But me WITH the kids? Ooh man. There were many tears shed, both myself and my kids. I am still making MANY attempts to continue this project, but not so much on a "deadline" basis. I'm sure I have SEVERAL pix that I just haven't gotten around to editing yet that could've been used for my project... but... once you fall behind on such a project, it's incredibly hard to get caught up. Not impossible however. As many of you know, I'm good friends with Amy Schuff and although she too fell behind at one point with her project (um, she has 3 kids all under the age of 6! I don't think I could even start such a project under those circumstances! lol ) she has managed to pull through and keep plugging away at her Project 52! Good for you girl. I admire and envy you for your determination and success! What a wonderful book you will end up with!!!

Well, all of that talk about my so called failure at my project 52, I don't know that it's a total flop. Afterall, it has made me incredibly aware of the importance of being IN your photographs. Taking pix with your kids, spouse, loved ones. Although I don't know if I could catch up on my project at this point.... I don't know that there is ever a "deadline" for making memories. You document as much as you can..... always.... and forever.....and for goodness sake, DON'T DO WHAT I DID.... worry about each image being "perfect". The moment you capture is pure excellence all on it's own. So please just get in front of that camera!

Maybe one day I will be able to start AND finish a project like this... but for now... I will just take each day and each memory as it comes my way, and continue to just CLICK!

Have a great weekend everyone!