National Photo Posting Month

I needed a spark and I got one.

I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up, but for this week I caught a spark, a bit of mojo perhaps, a reminder of a passion I used to have for photography. It’s not really important where I first noticed it, but it’s back for the moment and I’m determined to fan the embers awhile.

Cut to my friend Karen Walrond and her introduction of National Photo Posting Month, or #NaPhoPoMo. As a long time blogger I was very familiar with the practice of working on a novel or writing a blog post a day for the month of November, but I certainly had never even tried it. And I’ve never successfully completed one of those photo-a-day assignments I see all over Instagram. But the beauty of NaPhoPoMo is that I don’t have to follow some topic guideline and the real purpose is honing my craft. Practice practice practice. There’s nothing better than shooting daily to force new perspectives and uncover new skills.

So I started November 1st, but I didn’t get the shots actually posted each day until today. Choosing just one shot a day to post is actually proving harder than I thought.

November 1: My grandfather’s new smile.