quiet days

the first few days of this new year have been mostly quiet. i've been feeling a bit under the weather and have been struggling with headaches a lot. so the quietness is something beautiful, really. here are some shots from the first week of january. the first one was taken on my street some days ago. if you want to know more about the others, head on over here.

by the way, these days, i'm finding that i so enjoy reading my favourite blogs and feeling that leaving a comment is in actual fact reaching someone. which is at the core of blogging for sure. but at the moment it just makes me particularly grateful. this sort of communication has encouraged me to do things that otherwise i wouldn't have tried. and i'm learning a lot as i go along. i'm also really enjoying our 365 project on flickr. the feed-back there is so immediate and helpful. and i've been trying new things with my camera already. so good.

365

on the spur of the moment, i decided to join a 365 project on flickr. initiated by julochka and spud, this group is taking up the idea of taking a photo a day, all 365 days of this new year. it's a bit of a challenge, not only because i have the feeling that there might be days when i'm not really up for it, or when i just don't have the time to upload my photos, but also because there are quite a few very talented people out there who have done it before and even published books about it (say, a year of evenings). but i like the idea of learning as i go along and of eventually having a very tangible record of my year.

this is my first 365 photo, taken january 1, 2010. it's the cover of my brand-new diary for 2010 and a wintry magazine scrap. i tell you, i could do with a fur hat in berlin at the moment. it doesn't seem to stop snowing... 

do take a look at our flickr group. and if you'd like to play along, let me know in the comments. the group can be joined by invitation, i'll find out how to organise that.