I've continued working on the reunion photos and am gradually getting them to how I want them to look, but it means that I actually had to push myself to go and take photos for the prompt. I figure I've been looking at photos pretty much all day, well, except when Mel and Hunter came to visit, and to go and take more photos was a bit of a chore, well, no, not really. I just enjoy photography.
Most of my photos of the day have been taken in and around our house and yard, featuring Bella, Zimi, Oliver and the girls, flowers, memorabilia, things we have and so on. This has largely been deliberate, as it was (and is) important to me to document my daily life, and really, most of my daily life is spent at home. Keeping my focus on what is around me has oftentimes pushed me to work out how on earth I was going to actually manage to do the prompt. And it has helped me focus on what my reality was at that particular point in time. Many of the photos I've taken will not be/look the same way in a few years time - the plants, the changing gardens, dogs, cat and chickens, changes to the house, furnishings - and those photos will provide me with a reference point of what my life looked like in 2013. And I'm sure each one will spark a wealth of memories.
I guess in some ways just the visual documenting of 365 days has provided a unique perspective on looking at my life and the life around me.
This afternoon while playing with the dogs, I took some photos of the cubby house from different angles, but you know, they turned out looking like I had just rotated the image. So I turned to the Agapanthus and got down on my back in the garden bed and snapped happily away. Not the usual view of this plant and one I think that emphasises the strength of the stems against the soft delicateness of the petals. I've never grown an Agapanthus before and this lovely blossom is my very first. Definitely worthy of a place in the 365.