Photo-A-Day Challenge Wrap-up

Doing a photo-a-day challenge for 7 days was a unique experience. I appreciated how easy Blogger made it to do so, since all I had to do was take a photo with my phone, then open the Blogger app, type a sentence about the photo and upload it. I could see this as a useful way to document a field trip for parents and students to view as it happens or after the fact. It could also be a supplemental activity for a student to do if taking a vacation during school time. They could use Blogger like an online journal so that the rest of us could view what they were experiencing and learning on their trip.

If I was to do something like this for personal reasons, I would probably just post things to my Facebook page since that is a little bit faster than Blogger, and I would know who would have access to what I'm posting. Plus, I would most likely post pictures or video from family vacations anyways.

Photo-a-Day 7

I liked the way the ivy was climbing a tree in our backyard.

Photo-a-Day 6

This is a succulent in my front yard.

Photo-a-Day 5

Here is a grapefruit growing in our backyard.

Photo-a-Day 4

Here is a spider that was crawling on our house.

Photo-Day 3

Here are photos of redwood trees at my school from different perspectives.

Photo-a-Day 2

These are photos taken of the same roses in our backyard from different perspectives.

Photo-a-Day Challenge

I was inspired (required) by my teacher this week to do a photo-a-day challenge. This sounded fun because I have always enjoyed photography - capturing humorous, beautiful, and thought-provoking moments. When I was in high school, I had the pleasure of taking a black and white photography course in which we developed our own film and made our own prints in a dark room. From that moment on I discovered how much fun it was to take my camera out and about and see what might appear that captured my attention and imagination. Here are a couple photos from that class that I took.

To figure out the theme of my challenge for this week, I found a photo-a-day challenge website that had some good reasons for taking the challenge and possible goals for doing it. One of the reasons for doing it that resonated with me (as a teacher) is to use photography to document things that I've learned or observed. And being that the two photos above are nature-related, I thought it would be fun to take a photo-a-day of nature. Actually, I'll probably take a bunch and then just post my best/favorite from each day. I'll be using my iPhone 6 to do so, since its always in my pocket and produces a quality I'm happy with for this project.

Here is my first nature picture from today, purple cherry tomatoes from our back yard.