52 Week Project: Guest Post
Note from Jessica: I am super excited and inspired by this post. Rachael Grotegut and Shanda Atwood are both talented photographers and busy moms who live in my area (the Utah Valley). They are great ladies who never fail to make me laugh. I feel lucky to know them.
Photo by Shanda Atwood.
Caption: Week two. Another week has gone by … soooo fast it seems. So for week two of my 52 week project, I decided to capture my girl in their beds. They love, love, love stuffed animals, seriously they have a whole zoo on their beds! Each animal has a name and if you ask, they have a story to go behind why they chose that specific name.
Text by Rachael Grotegut:
Last summer my friend Shanda and I each opened up a photography business. While its been fun to photograph other families and build our portfolios. We noticed that we both stopped photographing our children as frequently as we used. In fact besides a few shots for my oldest sons birthday, and Christmas card pictures. There is not much to show for the past seven months. I look back on the date labeled folders from other years and they are filled with memories. In 2009 I completely fell flat!
A few weeks ago Shanda brought up the idea of doing a 52 week project and I just had to jump aboard. Fifty-two weeks, one memory every week, captured on film…er…I mean digital media :). The idea is to capture their every day, the big moments, the small, and everything in between. Then compile the memory or memories you photographed and share them on our blogs, Facebook, etc.
I think this is a great challenge for all of us. Pull your camera out and get creative. Even if it might seem mundane at the moment, years from now you will look back and cherish these memories.
Encourage yourself to take more pictures.
Photo by Rachael Grotegut.
Photo by Rachael Grotegut.
Caption: Week One. Here are some photos of my boys and their beloved webkinz. They have managed to collect 30 webkinz over the past year. Thirty different names. Every evening when they are supposed to be in bed, I can hear their imaginations at work while they play with their pets. So I decided to capture each of them with their favorite webkinz.
Caption: Week one. My mother in law got each of my girls a porcelain doll for Christmas. Kayleigh named this one Kristy, because it’s Kristy’s doll haha. She named hers Kayleigh
I did this shoot thinking it was her doll, I didn’t find out it wasn’t hers till the next day, oh well!!!
February 6th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
[...] yesterday’s great post by Rachael and Shanda, I realized that I wanted to get in on the action of the 52 week project too. I have been noticing [...]
February 7th, 2010 at 10:19 am
This is a great idea. I just posted my first week here http://www.bizziephotography.com/2010/02/week-1-of-the-52-week-challenge.html