My blog is mostly about the quilty stuff that goes on in my sewing room. If you are here for that, I won't be offended if you skip this post.
Since I've retired, my goal has been to do more photography and learn to do it better. I've been retired a little over 3 years at this point and I'm not sure there has been much improvement in the more or the better aspirations. Looking at how I did on my 2025 goals says a lot.
1. Take more pictures. Nope that didn't happen. I only had 79 photos I felt that were worthy of posting, versus 112 from last year.
2. Take more walks, go more places: The more walks didn't happen, nor did I go more places. But I do think I used my cell phone more this year to take photos while we were out and about.
3. Continue to learn my camera functions: Major fail, no effort at all on this point.
4. Keep studying photography via books/videos: Another major fail, I didn't read any books on photography in 2025.
Before writing up this year's ambitions, I reviewed the last 3 year's photos, with My Guy's help and picked one that stood out for each year. Maybe not the best technical photo of the year, but that the one that elicited a response from both of us.
2023
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| Canon 70D w/Tamron 18-400 mm lens |
2024
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| Canon 70D w/Tamron 18-400 mm lens |
2025
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| Canon 70D w/Tamron 18-400 mm lens |
None of these three are my typical subjects. The Tamron lens is probably my most versatile, so it's the one in use most of the time. What else did my review show? My shots from 2024 included a lot of, "what if I tried this". There was almost none of that last year. Photos of flowers and butterflies were more than 90% of my photos Those are my favorite subjects. They aren't bad subjects, but maybe not the most interesting.
So what's the plan for 2026?
1. Take a photo every week. Hopefully that will encourage me to look harder for interesting subjects.
2. Study both photography techniques and my camera operation. One photography book a month, a chapter on my reference books on the cameras.
I'm going to leave it at just two for this year. Hopefully both will get me taking more and better photos.
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