A Year's Journey

I was recently reading through some photography material I purchased, and one of the instructors mentioned that shooting in the same situation over and over again is a great way to measure progress.  As you grow, you approach the same things differently.  You see them differently, you process them differently.  If I were to look at a picture of a flower I took a year ago, and compare it to a picture of a family I shot last month, how would I know which was better?  But if I compared a picture of a flower from a year ago with a picture of a flower from yesterday, it would be way easier to see any changes.

I'm in the beginning stages of a 365 project for 2014.  One photo per day for a full year.  I attempted this back in the Fall of 2012, and only got a few months in before giving up.  This weekend, I went back to look at those photos.  I also picked 10 photos that I've taken in the last couple weeks and found matching counterparts.  Here's what I came up with:

Cookies on the kitchen shelf:

 Board games at our kitchen table:

 Flowers in our dining room:

 Piano shots after lessons have ended:

 Nick and his computer on the bed:

 Blankets and toes:

 Peeking through to the computer:

 Street lights:

 Furry friends:

Day's end:

I'm excited to maybe do this again a couple years from now :)