Perfect Light on Beacon Hill
Good Afternoon, World. I promised that one of my goals for 2009 was to officially launch a blog to spread the word of Epic Days.  I failed at my last blog attempt and don't plan on suffering the same fate! The goal of this blog is simple: to start documenting my life.  It is also intended to make me accountable for all of the things I'm setting out to do.  I want to be able to look back and have a journal of what I was thinking throughout my mid-twenties and beyond. I thought it would be fitting to start this off with a picture of Jamie.  Amateur photography is a hobby and love of mine but it's something I spend very little time pursuing.  I'm constantly at odds with this; when do I bring my camera, do people think I'm being intrusive, are people going to like these photos?  My personality and creativity are always at odds.  Fortunately I read photoblogs...alot.  If there's one thing I've read, it's that the first rule of photography is to bring your camera everywhere.  So that is slowly developing into my rule for 2009.  Bring that damn thing anywhere legal. I don't know how to use Photoshop [yet] and I just started to dabble in the trial version of Aperture 2 - so you're not going to get very many fancy, post-processed images from me.  With the exception of a few things, pretty much what you see is exactly what I took - until of course I find time to master the digital darkroom [yet another goal for 2009]. My first post is already inspiring me to live a little more EPIC.  If you want to do something, don't wait for a reason not to.  Figure out a plan and follow through.  My plan for photography is to start taking 100 shots each week, uploading at least 50 on to my Flickr account.  It's a modest number, embarrassing by many standards.  But it's going to get me off my arse and behind the lens. What's your plan?  How are you going to achieve it?