52 Weeks

I finally finished my 52 weeks project! It was my New Years resolution for 2013 to take a picture every week for the whole year and it's now complete. So to celebrate I decided to share all of my favorite pictures that I took (you can view the complete project here).

For 2014, I am thinking of working on more conceptual pictures and I'd love to shoot more portraits. Next semester I'm also taking my first photography class, and I'm excited to expand my talents and really learn more about how to work a camera. - Jessica

a study in e minor

   

These photos where taken way back in May for my 52 weeks project and I've been meaning to share these photos for a while now. When I took these pictures I had just had my last orchestra banquet (blog post) and I was about to have my last orchestra concert. The whole graduating and having to experience many lasts was very bittersweet. And I hate to admit it but I haven't played my violin since then (I've been playing the piano instead.) I'd love to get back into playing but I really love the whole orchestra setting over a string quartet, so if anyone knows of a recreational orchestra program in the central Texas area, I'm interested. -Jessica

the 28th week

I know it's been a while since I last posted a progress report on my 52 weeks project (it's been 25 weeks,) but lately my biggest obsession is reading blogs. I've been following several blogs and I've been inspired to do more with my own. So I'm going to start attempting to blog regularly (hopefully weekly,) and that can also help inspire me to take more pictures.

Last Sunday was my 18th birthday. The concept of being an adult is weird to me, even though I don't feel any different. I spend my day with my family, I finally went to Gourdoughs (film pictures to come within the future,) I cruised around South Congress, I saw "Despicable Me 2," and we went out to eat for dinner. While browsing around SoCo we went to shop where I got a toy dinosaur succulent, that I've been eyeing for a while. (They also have an online shop, where you can get dinosaur planters and other animals)

I also went out with my friend the other day to get snow cones! I got a kiwi banana flavor while my friend got a chocolate.

week 3 of 52 and new obsessions

Hello internet! My 52 weeks project has been going smoothly, you can check out my progress on my flickr. The above photo is from my shoot today, for week three. 

Moving on to the exciting stuff. I've become addicted to redbubble. I've seen a bunch of people on tumblr opening up their own and I decided why not start my own. I've spent a lot of time over the last few weeks just randomly photoshopping stuff and messing around with the templates from the site. I've been mixing around with putting vectors and my photographs up there and here are a few that you can buy.

new years resolution

My New Years resolution this year is to keep up with my 52 weeks. I've always wanted to do a 365 but I want to try a 52 weeks first and see if I can make it through that first. This year is going to be crazy; I'm going to graduate, turn 18, and start college. So hopefully I keep up with this project and document my next year.

The photos I took for this photo were all so grainy and almost mirrored film. I'm not sure if I'm happy with the final result, but here it is.