Throughout 2015 I felt like I was constantly taking photos... but never for me. When I did finally make an effort to take more photos for myself, I never got around to editing and resizing, and printing.. so what was the point? My goal for 2016 is to take more pictures for me... find the beauty in every day life. I hope to post at least one per week this year.

My first photo: my two younger sisters playing "chicken" in a park, from my trip to Virginia Beach.

Just to see them smile makes my whole life.

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I didn't plan for this to be my first picture. In fact, I didn't even decide I was going to try and document my life this year until two days ago. I got the idea and then I thought "What will I photograph before the 7th??".

I wanted my first image to be special because sometimes my weekly photo may be my dog or my keyboard, because lets be honest.. those things consume my life sometimes.

But stopping and thinking about what is beautiful to me about every day normal life....

THIS..

My siblings live in Virginia and I don't get to see them nearly as often as I would like... overtime i do I think they've grown a foot.

My baby sister Josephine had just dyed her hair blue and we went to take pictures of it. I asked about good locations and they were;t really sure, so I asked if they knew of a field and Jo suggested their old elementary school. So we went, and it was perfect. After I snapped a few pictures they asked if they could go play on the monkey bars...

My sisters are much younger than me, 11 and 12 years each.. and all I could think in that moment was I hope I can remember this forever.. the innocence, the happiness, the lack of sibling banter. The way the golden sun set bounced from their face, the laughter...

I grabbed my camera, and now I have this moment forever.

Thats what I love about project life... taking your normal every day life and capturing it in a beautiful and artistic way. I encourage you all to participate in a similar project, or just take the time to stop and appreciate the little things. It goes so quickly.