For my Sky Photo Project, I’ve mostly been taking one picture a day.
This past Friday, as I was walking home from the train, I took a picture. I noticed the clouds and light looked different even just a few feet away. So I took a couple more pictures — all within five minutes.
Nothing earth shattering. Just some blue sky and clouds. But it made me happy.
If you follow me on Instagram, you probably noticed that I love taking pictures of the sky and tops of trees.
Even though the sky and trees are the same thing, they are never the same thing.
Especially the sky. There are so many variables. The amount of sunlight or moonlight. The shade of blue. The types of clouds.
I never get bored, because the pictures are always different. In fact, I get more fascinated the more pictures I take. It made me wonder.
How many types of sky can there be? What would it look like to take a bunch of pictures over time and compare? So about a month ago I started the #ljskyproject on Instagram. Sort of like my Virgo Season Photo Project. I’m still noticing the details.
This project could go on for quite some time. Which is fine. Because so does the sky.
Happy Virgo Season! As a proud Virgo, this is my favorite time of the year.
While it’s not yet my birthday month, today is the start of the season, which goes through September 22nd. Although some things I read say September 21st and that Libra season starts on the 22nd. So my last post for the project will be September 21st.
For the season, I’ve decided to try something new — a photography project on Instagram using the hashtag #virgophotoproject.
Photography has always been a hobby and Instagram has brought me back to a purer form of it than blogging. While blogging, I always have pictures, but they are not the main thing. The main thing is the story and the pictures help tell the story.
I just read the book, Humans of New York, which is based on the blog. The blog started as a photography project and grew from there. I love how starting something small as an experiment can end up turning into much more than originally expected.
Reading the book made me think that it would be nice to try a photo project of my own. But I wasn’t sure about a topic. I read a blog post on Everyday Eyecandy about 16 different types of photography projects. They are all wonderful ideas, but none of them appealed to me.
After thinking about things that interest me and that were coming up, Virgo Season immediately came to mind. Virgos are all about the details among many other wonderful things, so I thought it made sense to focus in on that for a theme to start.
It will be interesting to see what types of things I have photographed. I’m also hoping that some others will join in and contribute some pictures by using the #virgophotoproject hashtag. I’d love to see what everyone comes up with. What are traits that you associate with being a Virgo?
My first Instagram post for the #virgophotoproject was this picture from the side of the building at 160 Federal Street in Boston. I have always noticed the shoe and wondered what it was about. Turns out the building used to house the United Shoe Machinery Company.
The shoe is just a small detail, but turns out it has a big significance! I hope you’ll follow the project and let me know what you think.
