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[moominmolly]

Today the thing that makes me happy is photography. I can sometimes get down on myself for abandoning projects or hobbies when the luster of newness has worn off and they just get hard; however, I seem to be keeping up this photo thing with joy and love and that's uncomplicatedly great. I also seem to be growing and changing in it. I enjoy the challenge of posting a single photo every day; some days I have to phone it in, but knowing that that's true means that I am freed from worrying about it happening. And the whole process of noticing, capturing, and posting a moment is much shorter for me this cycle than it has been in the past. I went through and counted, yesterday, and fully 50% of my shots were taken in full-manual mode because it was quicker to get what I wanted that way. I haven't been trying for this, I just thought it was a tidy indicator of how my brain has been working regarding images: I see a scene and I know precisely how I want it to look as an image, and then the game is getting what's in my head out into the world. And I'm getting better at it. That's cause for celebration.

I keep thinking I should make a new year's resolution about photography -- I'd like to do more of this or that kind of photo, learn how to do X, whatever -- but I think I won't. I think I'll just say: this is a good thing in my life, and I want more. I want to always want more.