I think if I stare at this computer for even one more second my fingers are probably going to marry this keyboard. While I post this, I’ve listed to the same song about a dozen times. Yes, the jukebox in my head will be playing it on repeat for the rest of the night. I think I’ll sleep soundly. Good night.

Spent a large portion of my day cleaning and setting up my studio. I’m so excited to use it. Who wants to model for me? It’s not completely perfect yet but it will be soon. I can’t wait to start using it.

After finishing the studio I had a birthday celebration at Roy’s. Played some cosmic miniature golf and finished the night watching the Hangover. All in all, a pretty perfect day.

So for this year I decided to start something new, I’m going to start Project 365. What is the Project 365 you ask? Well basically you take a picture ever day for a year. Why would someone want to participate in this madness?

• Imagine being able to look back at any day of your year and recall what you did, who you met, what you learned… (Often we find it hard to remember what we did just yesterday or even last night, let alone a whole year ago!)
• Your year-long photo album will be an amazing way to document your travels and accomplishments, your haircuts and relationships. Time moves surprisingly fast.
• Taking a photo a day will make you a better photographer. Using your camera every day will help you learn its limits. You will get better at composing your shots, you’ll start to care about lighting, and you’ll become more creative with your photography when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day.

Am I going to forget? Yes, probably but hopefully I’ll continue through the next year. I’ve got a lot of photo albums and scrapbooks to fill up! I might even take more than one picture a day like today.

Now I just need to set up my studio. I have everything I need, lighting, a backdrop, a decent camera. New project for the week! Who wants to paint?

Just so you know, as I type this, I have a very fat cat walking in front of my computer screen making it very difficult to see what I’m typing. Oh great, now she’s biting the screen. Thank goodness for hungry, fat cats. They never fail to keep me amused.

I have been contemplating the 365 day project. What is 365 day project you may ask? Well go check out 365 project. Basically, this is you (or me in this case) taking a picture everyday for a year and posting it on the world wide web… Why would anyone want to do that? I don’t know but at least it gets people taking photos. It might be a go for me. We’ll see.

In the mean time, I tried light painting. Check it out!

This could definitely become a habit.

I was at Huntington Beach and when I sat down I saw this couple cuddling, I couldn’t help but to snap a few shots of them. He seemed so very protective of her and I thought it was absolutely adorable.

So new challenge for the week: go out and take candid pictures of random strangers.