The 52 Week Project

I heard about the 52 Week Project from a friend at school who did it last year and is doing it again. For those who don't know, many photographers, aspiring photographers, or people who just enjoy taking meaningful and artistic photos usually will at some point take up this challenge. The goal is a photo a week. It doesn't matter what it is or where it's taken, it just has to be special in some way, whether big or small. (At least that's what I've gathered.) 

As part of my New Year's resolution for 2012, I have decided to embark on this journey of creative expression. Not wishing to allow any creative juices to slip through the cracks created by my procrastination, laziness, and lack of determination to actually finish the things I've started, I commit to using my blog as a quasi-public medium through which my readers can hold me accountable to fulfilling my resolution for this year.

I'm not a professional photographer by any means, so these are the guidelines I've set for myself and my 52 Week Project of 2012:

52 Weeks. 52 Photos. 52 Blog Posts.

By Saturday night (at the latest)

of every week of 2012

I must post a picture to my blog

 that I took during that week 

and write about it.

Simple.

This project is more than another of my cheesy New Year's resolutions. I want to capture memories. I've lost far too many. Some might be gone forever. I'm not sure. Lyme disease and some of the other infections I've battled endlessly for the past three years have stolen a lot from me. Regardless, now is the time to take baby steps, move forward, and persevere. This 52 Week Project encompasses one important way for me to do such things; to fight back with forceful weapons of creativity, passion, and the strong will of a sufferer who's not willing to surrender; to remember where I've come from and remind myself of where I want go, what I want to learn and how I want to grow. I am calling out this year as one of remembering, hoping, and praying. With each memory, with each photo, with each post, may long-forgotten pieces of myself be restored along with the discovery of new pieces waiting to emerge.

Picture perfect or not. I'm ready. 52 Week Project 2012, here I come!

Join me on my journey. I'll be listing the links to my posts below or if you want to just see the photos, check out my 52 Week Project 2012 facebook album.

Week 1: How Sweet the Sound
Week 2: Living Loved
Week 3: The Challenge & The Blessing
Week 4: Don't Even Hesitate!
Week 5: Battling for the New
Week 6: Lazy Days
Week 7: Cloudy with a Chance of Joy
Week 8: Chasing the Wind
Week 9: Our Shatter-Proof Refuge
Week 10: Longing For Where I Belong
Week 11: Miraculous Reflections
Week 12: Beautiful Timing
Week 13: Any Other Way: ALPACA?
Week 14: Surely Alive
Week 15: Not Faking It No More
Week 16: Wet Hair and Wishes
Week 17: This Is The Story Of A Girl.....
Week 18: The "Home Stretch"
Week 19: The Tell-Tale Glow
Week 20: Not just another flower picture
Week 21: Bird's Eye View
Week 22: Couch-to-5-K
Week 23: Breaking Through Reality's Limits
Week 24: Daddy's Girl
Week 25: Why You Buggin??
Week 26 & 27: A 2-in-1 Deal
Week 28: Life is Beautiful
Week 29: To be or not to be?
Week 30: Our Mess. God's Masterpiece.
Week 31: ...in every day of life