Spoiler alert.
A funny thing happened while I was reading Wanting, a book about mimetic desire: micro.blog started the September 2023 Photoblogging Challenge and I had sudden urge to unlock that 30-day pin.
I went for tangential over literal interpretation of the prompts, and for (mostly) archival photos over daily snaps. While reviewing old photos I realized that, among the many things wrong with my late iPhone Xs Max before the digitizer died and I had to replace it, was the lens stabilizer: most of the photos shot while it was on its last legs are smeared. I was oddly at peace with that, my own photo quality standards having slipped considerably in the last decade as my spouse became the family’s photographer of record.
I also tried to add a link or two wherever possible, because if a piece of online text doesn’t link out to anything else then what’s the point? [Note: Seriously, X now allows verified users to post walls of text in a single post and still has no hyperlinks. The mind boggles why anyone would write anything there that’s more serious than their thoughts from the shitter. ] In that spirit, here are all the prompts, linking out to my entry for the day:
- Day 1: abstract
- Day 2: buildup
- Day 3: precious
- Day 4: orange
- Day 5: forest
- Day 6: well
- Day 7: panorama
- Day 8: yonder
- Day 9: language
- Day 10: cycle
- Day 11: retrospect
- Day 12: panic
- Day 13: glowing
- Day 14: statue
- Day 15: red
- Day 16: oof!
- Day 17: intense
- Day 18: fabric
- Day 19: edge
- Day 20: disruption
- Day 21: fall
- Day 22: road
- Day 23: a day in the life
- Day 24: belt
- Day 25: flare
- Day 26: beverage
- Day 27: embrace
- Day 28: workout
- Day 29: contrast
- Day 30: treasure