mckernin photography: project life | the first three weeks

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

project life | the first three weeks

Project Life is a wonderful year long project created by Becky Higgins. It's a way to capture your life every day over a year, it's a glimpse into our lives, moments captured. Something I hope to do every year for my family. This also ties into Project 365, a well known wide spread project where you take a photography each day.

Here's my take on these two project as they go hand in hand.

I plan on trying to take a photo every day, it doesn't have to be technically perfect, it doesn't have to be from my good camera, and I don't have to be the one to take it. Life is busy, I get that and if I don't have a photo for that day, then it's going to be ok. Some days I might need to include two photos to really show the story as it progressed.

I plan on keeping the journaling simple, some days I'll have a lot to say, some days I won't. Some days I'm going to get someone else like Bill or Ian to write. You'll see a close up of one of Ian's cards in week two right hand page. I plan to slip in some of my instax mini shots, receipts, movie stubs, parking stubs. Lots and lots of the stuff life is made of. Like Ian's school work from week one.

I plan to use different additional page protectors, like 8.5x11, 6x12, full 12x12. Some customized pages too. I want this to be a living family journal for all of us to use over the year. I want it to stay simple and easy over the course of the year. I am really looking forward to having a place for all the bits of stuff I collect over the year. Instead of in a box waiting for me to scrap.

Here is a look at my album so far, you'll notice in week three it's incomplete because life is busy and I have two crazy boys. So I plan on wrapping it up with week four. I tucked in a note of things I needed to do to complete it as a reminder. Hope you enjoy and follow along as we go.