I'm having a re-think about what I want to get out of this blog, and how I want to best use it.
On the one hand, having to come up with an idea, image daily for a monthly theme has forced me to be more alert to my world around me. I've really had to look at the world with appreciative, inquisitive eyes and not take it for granted. Where I might have otherwise glanced at an amazing sunrise and thought fleetingly, "wow, pretty", I'm now really looking and stopping to take a photo. And as a result, I've taken the time to take some photos and/or drawn some images that I'm extremely proud of. None of these would have happened without my blog.
On the other hand, there have been quite a few try-hard/uninspiring/stretch-to-make-it-fit-the-theme photos and drawings which I've used simply because I needed to make up my 30-odd images for each day of the month.
In addition, I rarely post an image without feeling I ought to add some kind of commentary. Some themes are worse than others for 'inspiring' my discussion. So I find I'm compounding the amount of work required for a daily image because of my verbosity.
I've got my separate Dodo-Au-Gogo blog for all my writing requirements. Given I'm a genius procrastinator, my AMIAM commentary also gives me an excuse not to focus on my actual writing blog...
Come January 2015, I'm going to drop my requirement for a daily image. I'm going to keep a monthly theme and require a minimum of 10 images on that theme each month.
I thought about letting AMIAM slip into a longer hiatus, but I don't want to give up on the opportunities it provides me with to look for, find and capture an image of beauty in my everyday world.
So, from now on, 10 images per month it is.
Now, I only have to think of a theme for January 2015...
