Another self-portrait! This is what you do when there's no subject.
I read an article/idea and thought it was very cool to share...

Visual Diaries - I was speaking with a semi-professional photographer recently about her work and
how she kept it ‘fresh’ and she answered by pulling out a spiral bound art folio. At first I
thought it was an album of her work but on opening it I discovered it was a scrapbook - filled
with images that others had taken.

This photographer had gotten in the habit of cutting out images that inspired her from newspapers,
magazines, advertising brochures, postcards etc. She even printed shots from online to stick in
her visual notebook. The other section of her visual notebook was a place for writing and drawing
ideas. When she thought of an idea to photograph in the day to day of life she’d make a note of it
(or even draw a little sketch to help her remember) so she could come back to it later to do a
photo shoot around the idea.

The idea behind the notebook was simply to give her inspiration to try new things. Every time she
found herself getting in a rut or searching for an idea to make her work more creative she’d get
out her notebook and see what other photographers were doing in terms of subjects, angles, colors,
cropping etc. She didn’t directly copy the work of others but in exposing herself to it found that
her own work had improved and had a wider and more contemporary appeal.
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After reading this article, I was thinking, maybe after my one year of PAD is over, then maybe I
would print out the whole year worth of my PAD, and create a book/photo album of it and document
my one year PAD that way on photo paper!
Putting it online is one thing, but to have it printed out and sorted, I think I would be proud of
myself for what I've done!