Practice Makes Perfect

What a difference a year makes!  While I've downgraded from my ambitious Project 365 to a much more reasonable Project 52 I still find myself picking my camera up pretty often.  Almost every day, but not quite.  I'm mostly inspired by light so when the lighting is perfect I get itchy fingers and run outside with my camera without paying attention to what I'm wearing or the fact that everybody else is eating dinner.  I see the way the light is falling on some leaves or tree blossoms and I am out the door!  But since my yard and daily activities are pretty regular I find myself taking similar photos as last year and it's interesting to compare them and see my growth.  Turns out that practicing something every day does indeed bring improvement.

Take today for example.  Remember this photo from last year's Project 365?  I know a lot of people really liked it.  It was taken on April 5th last year, just a little over a year ago.

I just took this one 30 minutes ago while my kids ate hotdogs and were watching Mulan.  I see improvement. 

Here's another one from last year.  I took this last March of the lilies on our side yard with the setting sun as backlighting.

And here's one from two weeks ago with a similar subject and lighting.  You may confuse this with a jungle or large shrub but it's actually our backyard grass.

Here's one of Boo I took last March:

And here she is again last month:

 Here's a photo of both my kids I took at the end of last April:

And here's one I did of the two of them last week:

 

I'm excited to see where I am a year from now, progress is always exciting!