take more photographs

I’ve been taking at least one picture a day – which had been a personal goal of mine for a while. I try to make sure that my camera is within reach for most of the day—I don’t think I can do much more than that for this goal.

I managed to snap about 130 pictures this past Sunday at a kid’s birthday party. I have to say that despite not being able to get the kids to sit still a lot of the pictures turned out well. My secret? Skip trying to get the kids to pose for the camera and just get them as they went about their business.

I just ordered the Canon EOS 400d (aka – Digital Rebel XTi) and it should get here tomorrow. I enjoyed my PowerShot A620 but quickly noticed how limited I was to being able to learn more about photography. Granted it’s a great camera, there’s just something about me that wanted something with a lot more options.

Anyway with the new camera I think that taking more photographs will not be a problem. I’ll probably spend every free second I have taking some shots.

I’ve fallen behind in taking as many pictures as I would like because life seems to be getting in the way. The daily routine of getting up, going to work, coming home, and making dinner pretty much kills any time to take photos. I blame it on the seasons… what with the sun setting earlier and earlier every night and the cold weather.

Okay so the sun setting I can’t do much about, but if I want to get serious about taking pictures then I need to brave the cold weather.

I should be trying to take some more photos inside but I just don’t have that many interesting subjects to shoot. Plus I rarely find the pictures I take inside to be as interesting (or appealing) as the ones taken outside.

Okay, no more excuses… time to get back on track with this one.

I had a vacation this past week and took about 300 pictures. I’ll bore anyone I can with all the shots since I love taking pictures now. However I feel that I still need to take more pictures. I need to develop and find my “style” and more improtantly understand my camera better. The only way I can think of to do that is by taking more pictures.