The jig is up...

30 days have passed.
30 strenuous days have passed.
30 days of creative ups and downs have passed.
30 days of frustration, pride, exasperation and joy have passed.
30 days of learning, reading, researching and taking photos have passed.

And how do I rate the experience?

I loved the discipline and the rigidity of it. But it was also something that I hated about it. I also loved that I learnt so much about my camera in so few days.

I sometimes felt that making the deadline was sucking any sort of creativity dry. I realise that one person's art is another person's junk - and I'm sure the majority of my photographs would not fall under anybody's definition of art. There are some photographs, though, that I feel do fall under art - while others... even in my books, fall under junk. The last month has been excruciating but also liberating - I also feel that the last month has been enlightening but also limiting.

I'd reach 10 in the evening and be like... oh crap... I need something to take a photograph of - I'd pick up a half cut pepper, or a tangerine and although I would hold the object in my hand and think to myself 'How will this make a good photograph? It's simply impossible!' and I liked that challenge, that blunt insistence in my head that it is possible to make everything and anything beautiful. I'm not sure if I succeeded overall, but I'd like to think I at least made a start!

I found that I really love macro photography. Maybe one day I'll even be able to find myself a reasonably priced macro lens.

As I am the queen of oxymorons and feel as if I've not even described how I feel about this whole experience, I'll bring this post to an end.

Will I do it again? Yes. I plan on doing it again. But I need a break... just for a few days, and then I'll start again.
The next thirty days will be spent using a pre-made list... I'll be following that!

That'll be even more oxymoronish of me :D haha!
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P.s. Emma at STARdrought finished her 30 days too, of course! So please go check her out. The next post will be a top 7 favourite photographs from her 30 days! Exciting stuff!