{"id":1309,"date":"2015-02-02T23:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T03:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2015-02-02T23:44:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T03:44:27","slug":"reflect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting &#8211; One Month In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 33<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I eclipsed month one of my year long Project 365 challenge.\u00a0 A few key observations as I reflect:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am encouraged.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been able to stick with my commitment to capture a unique, interesting image each day.\u00a0 As mentioned from the outset, there may occasionally be days I&#8217;m unable to post to the blog.\u00a0 My primary goal as a photographer is to capture a daily image.\u00a0 So far so good.<\/li>\n<li>Blogging (the writing part) has been more challenging than I had imagined.\u00a0 At the same time, putting words to my images has been more fulfilling than expected.\u00a0 Combining both visual and written content to what&#8217;s on my mind, or to a moment captured in time, brings a personal satisfaction that is hard to explain.\u00a0 I find it more fulfilling than independently writing in a journal or displaying a photograph.<\/li>\n<li>Several readers have told me I am a good writer.\u00a0 This REALLY surprised me, and I&#8217;m still not sure I buy it.<\/li>\n<li>I am loving this creative process.\u00a0 Yes, there are days when I feel &#8220;obligation&#8221; rather than creativity.\u00a0 But overall, I find that once I start conceptualizing and shooting, ideas present themselves fairly quickly.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a lot to be said for frequent, consistent repetition.\u00a0 It helps one refine skills and stretch capabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1311\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150202_002.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1311\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1311\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150202_002-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Reflecting on Reflections\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150202_002-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150202_002-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150202_002.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Reflections<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fuji X-T1, 56mm f\/1.2, 1\/100 sec @ f\/5.6, ISO3200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 33 This weekend I eclipsed month one of my year long Project 365 challenge.\u00a0 A few key observations as I reflect: I am encouraged.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been able to stick with my commitment to capture a unique, interesting image each day.\u00a0 As mentioned from the outset, there may occasionally be days I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,37,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}