Hello there Buttoneers! If you have been following me on Instagram or maybe even Twitter, then you may have seen that for the third time this year I have been taking part in Fat Mum Slim’s Photo-a-day Challenge.
Here are my Photo a Day – March 2014, Photo a Day April 2014 and Photo-a-Day – May 2014 blog posts.
I am really glad I started this photo challenge. I struggled through a fair few of them this month but I am super glad I stuck with it as looking back over the months round-up I feel like I have documented the month really well. As most of you know we moved house right bang in the middle of this month, the day after my birthday and a week before I opened the Eliston Button Etsy shop for the first time. This meant I have been super busy, pretty exhausted whilst trying to make a home, unpack boxes, build a lot of flat-pack furniture, photograph stock, write product descriptions and not get much sleep! Its been a little crazy but by taking that one photograph a day for each prompt, I have managed to document it all ten times better than I would have without the challenge. My future self will be grateful of this.
I did have to make myself do some of them and really had to simplify the prompt into its most basic and ‘clutched at straws’ form! Some of them were very open to your own interpretation and, purely because I was so busy, I wanted someone to tell me what to take a photograph of! haha! I got there in the end!
This challenge is really opening me up to not only think creativity in a different medium (photography) than I am used to (beyond by holiday snaps and blog photographs) but how I now think about composition and what those prompts mean to me.
Here is my June 2014 in a Photo-a-Day…
Eliston Button 