Today is the final day of my 365 Day Photo-A-Day project! I am feeling proud and relieved and excited and grateful. To say that this experience was meaningful in my life would be a dramatic understatement. To say that it literally changed my life would not be far from the truth.
When I began this project on August 17th, 2009, I was in love with photography but taking mediocre pictures with a decent point and shoot camera. As I sit here today, I am taking much better photos with my DSLR camera in manual mode at all times. When I began this project, I had little knowledge of the terms exposure, aperture, white balance, etc. Today, I confidently know, understand, and utilize these terms with respect to my camera. When I began this project, I was knee deep in a soap making business that was no longer serving me. Today, I am in the beginning stages of a portrait photography business…a real life dream come true! When I began this project, I had a couple of online friends who read my blog every once in a while. Today, I have a blessed abundance of real friends that I have made through Flickr and this blog and I have to admit that it all began with my more active participation on Flickr…yes, through this project!
My primary purpose for beginning this project was to learn how to take better pictures. I also wanted to capture this last year in my twenties in a meaningful way. What I now have is a year’s worth of photos that depict my life, my love, my family, my heart, and my soul. Here are just a few of the images I have collected over the past year. Thank you all for taking this journey with me!
Coincidentally {but not so coincidentally, I am thirty today. I’m ready and, might I add, blissfully happy to leave my twenties behind me and I’m forging straight ahead into this new decade! I am looking forward to spending today {as well as this whole entire year } with my family…enjoying the good life! I hope you all have an amazing August, 17th! xoxo
May your 30s enlighten you 
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