Picture-A-Week: Why Bother?

What did you expect? It IS the New Year, and it is time for resolutions.

I have never tried to start a PAW (Picture-A-Week) project, but there really is something to be said for people who have the discipline and stamina to come up with a photo every week for 52 weeks. Inevitably, the idea came again this year, mainly spurred by a recent thread on RFF to start a PAW project.

Time to do some thinking.

Let's face it, when you are in a beautiful place, photographs come more easily. Especially if the place is new, or novel, to you. Good photos? I don't know, but proportionally, you're bound to get more of those as well.

"Photographers shoot too much film! If you go to the barnyard even a blind chicken can find grain." -- Andre Kertesz (excerpted from Deus Ex Machina, by Ralph Gibson).

But what about the ordinary? I think that's where a PAW may help. To see the extraordinary in things that you probably see everyday. Seeing. Photographically. That is a worthy goal.

"Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d'etre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison d'etre, which lives on in itself." -- Andre Kertesz (again!).


At the very least, it should be fun.




RFF PAW Project links to participants, courtesy of gregg.

RFF PAW 2007 Flickr Pool.