Whoa! 40 and 1/2 already and no new posts!
Sorry to neglect you, my poor blog! Too busy doing oh so many things! Still LOVING being forty, though! Discovered some cool things on the internet. Youtube is great! I found some people doing video journals and now I am inspired. I also found some great things over at Flickr. A favorite is the 365 Project with daily self-portraits. After looking over my video and photo collection at home I discovered something: I am DEFINITELY the family photographer! In some ways, that's great because I LOVE it! But that means that I am BEHIND the camera for almost ALL of our family photos and home movies! There are only a handful of pictures that include me, and most of them are not exactly my best photo moments. There are even fewer videos that include me, and that is going back all the way to 1992 when I first began our home video collection when my son was born. I am in my wedding video from 1985, and I am, of course, in the video of both of my children's births, but that's about it. After that, I was always the one behind the lens.
SOOO...since I was inspired by some of the women who are detailing their lives and creating wonderful documentaries and photo journals of themselves, I thought, why not? My childhood photos are scarce, my teenage photos are few and far between, my 20s were barely documented, and my 30s seem to have all but disappeared...so I guess now would be a good time to start documenting MY life as it is in my 40s. I don't look as good as I would like when it comes to posing for photos, and my life isn't exactly how I want it to be right now at this moment in time, but why wait? If I wait until everything is "just right," I may NEVER get going on documenting my own life from my perspective. Since I am already more than halfway behind my first year of my forties, I guess I won't be officially joining the 365 project. Actually, I found another group, 52 Weeks, that fits me better because time goes quickly these days and before I know it, another week has passed. I MAY can get in SOMETHING every week, but every day...no way! I'm not really ready to make it all official, so I'll just experiment posting to my blog and maybe I will start the official group on my 41st birthday, when I offically join the "forty-SOMETHING" group instead of just being dead-on forty. It should be interesting trying to think of things to document!
Oh, some of the rules seem to be: MUST be taken BY the subject OF the subject, but can be ANY part of the body...some days I just won't be willing to face the camera, so a hand or foot will have to suffice. I have seen some very creative photos: shadows and reflections count, back of the head counts, hands/feet/arms/legs count, bellys count (but NOT ready to focus on THAT yet!), and all other body parts as long as it is somehow included in the photo. It is SUPPOSE to be one photo each day, or at least one photo each week for the 52 weeks. I am so far behind that I am "cheating" a bit..that's why I'm not going to do it "officially" until I am ready to do it right! I looked back over my digital photos from the past six months, and I also looked on the internet for current events. Then I took the photos and added a hand or other body part to emphasize it. I included some photos that I took as I began to experiment with this concept of self-portaits. The solid concept that runs through all of them is this: ME at 40! All of them were taken since my 40th birthday. I will be doing the weekly thing from now on, but will probably just post them here until October. I MAY begin the daily photos at that point...not sure yet.
So this is my introduction to my life in my 40s...I feel like it is the beginning of a whole new era for me, and this would be a great time to document that transition. It may be fun trying to think of ways to show "my life" without focusing totally on motherhood as I have for so long. I FINALLY understand...I am not JUST a mother, I am a woman! And it is time I began acknowledging that fact and look at my life from a womanly perspective. Here we go...
SOOO...since I was inspired by some of the women who are detailing their lives and creating wonderful documentaries and photo journals of themselves, I thought, why not? My childhood photos are scarce, my teenage photos are few and far between, my 20s were barely documented, and my 30s seem to have all but disappeared...so I guess now would be a good time to start documenting MY life as it is in my 40s. I don't look as good as I would like when it comes to posing for photos, and my life isn't exactly how I want it to be right now at this moment in time, but why wait? If I wait until everything is "just right," I may NEVER get going on documenting my own life from my perspective. Since I am already more than halfway behind my first year of my forties, I guess I won't be officially joining the 365 project. Actually, I found another group, 52 Weeks, that fits me better because time goes quickly these days and before I know it, another week has passed. I MAY can get in SOMETHING every week, but every day...no way! I'm not really ready to make it all official, so I'll just experiment posting to my blog and maybe I will start the official group on my 41st birthday, when I offically join the "forty-SOMETHING" group instead of just being dead-on forty. It should be interesting trying to think of things to document!
Oh, some of the rules seem to be: MUST be taken BY the subject OF the subject, but can be ANY part of the body...some days I just won't be willing to face the camera, so a hand or foot will have to suffice. I have seen some very creative photos: shadows and reflections count, back of the head counts, hands/feet/arms/legs count, bellys count (but NOT ready to focus on THAT yet!), and all other body parts as long as it is somehow included in the photo. It is SUPPOSE to be one photo each day, or at least one photo each week for the 52 weeks. I am so far behind that I am "cheating" a bit..that's why I'm not going to do it "officially" until I am ready to do it right! I looked back over my digital photos from the past six months, and I also looked on the internet for current events. Then I took the photos and added a hand or other body part to emphasize it. I included some photos that I took as I began to experiment with this concept of self-portaits. The solid concept that runs through all of them is this: ME at 40! All of them were taken since my 40th birthday. I will be doing the weekly thing from now on, but will probably just post them here until October. I MAY begin the daily photos at that point...not sure yet.
So this is my introduction to my life in my 40s...I feel like it is the beginning of a whole new era for me, and this would be a great time to document that transition. It may be fun trying to think of ways to show "my life" without focusing totally on motherhood as I have for so long. I FINALLY understand...I am not JUST a mother, I am a woman! And it is time I began acknowledging that fact and look at my life from a womanly perspective. Here we go...
posted by Kate Ryan @ 5:47 PM
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