Picture A Day as Marathon - Mile 2

Continuing my Picture-A-Day as a marathon metaphor, with today's image I have just completed mile two (the first month of pictures).

I'm still not going to pretend it's easy but I am starting to get into something of a stride. I'm letting go of the pressure to create a 'significant' image everyday. That's just too much stress. I don't think that I'm cheating, but if I am not in the mood to shoot, or it has got late, I am using the old fall-back of table top studio work and am shooting toys or my camera collection as a way to get through another PAD day and to keep to the project.

I've also found I'm pacing myself. Some lunchtimes I go for a walk and to bag that day's picture. If I find what I need in the first few minutes but later see something else visually interesting I may take a shot or two but I also mentally file away the location of the subject and the time of day and weather that will suit it best so that I can return on another, less target-rich day. Some of the images I have made are just blah but at least I made a picture that day. Of that, I am proud. I am also confident that with a bit of effort I can keep going a few more miles.

Escaping the metaphor and addressing real road races for a moment, I wish I was as confident about completing the actual half-marathon that I signed up for this coming Sunday. I haven't done nearly enough training miles to get a decent time so this race will just be a matter of survival for me and I will count anything under two hours a victory.

To anyone else competing in real or metaphorical races at the moment, good luck to you. The following are my PAD images for mile two (only 21 and a bit miles left to go!):