August Break 2014: lots of photos
Left to right, top to bottom, the prompts were: orange; pattern; selfie; lunch; today is…; three; reflection; pattern (again!); window
Last year, I took part in Susannah Conway’s August Break for the first time.
It’s a brilliant (and brilliantly simple) idea. For the month of August, you take a photo every day and publish it on your blog or share on Instagram (or Facebook or wherever…)
There are prompts to follow every day, if you choose, or you can just take whatever photo you like.
It’s called a “break” because the idea is you stop bothering with blogging your usual posts, but just take a lovely photo and share that instead.
Last year, it absolutely stressed me out beyond belief. It was the most exhausting month of blogging I’ve ever had since starting the blog.
Even though I didn’t follow the prompts or insist to myself that the photo I posted was one I had actually taken on that day, I found it utterly draining finding a decent photo to publish every day. (I wrote a bit more about it on August 31st last year, if you want to hear more specific moans!)
This year, I’ve got a phone with a decent camera so I’m over on Instagram instead of the blog and, let me tell you, I am loving it!
I’m doing it properly. Following all the prompts. Taking the photo on the actual day. And yet, somehow, I’m not finding it loads of extra effort. I’m just finding it a joy to take a picture each and every day.
I thought at the end of each week I’d round up my pics over here too, in case anyone who isn’t on Instagram is interested in seeing them.
If you want to join in too, you can find out all the info on Susannah’s blog: August Break 2014.
Check out everyone else’s photos over on Instagram by searching #augustbreak2014.
And you can follow me on instagram if you’d like to see the day-by-day shots as they occur: @wolvesinlondon.
Come and play too, it’s really fun!
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- I’m sure that a big part of the reason I’m finding this so much more fun this year is thanks to the bloggers’ photography course I took with Emily Quinton last year. You can read more about that here: Makelight workshop.
