A little while back I spoke a little bit about the rules I had set for myself when I set out to start to record one day in my life each month. One of the most important rules I developed was that I would shoot roughly around the same day every month not matter what was going on so I wouldn’t end up waiting around for a day where we did something fun and photogenic as a family and then end up letting an entire month slip by from under my nose.
I knew from the start that this rule would eventually lead to at least a few days of lack luster photographs. As a business owner/artist it kind of makes me shudder a bit to put something “less than” out there just because I set some rules for myself. But I also feel strongly about the importance of this project; about it’s ability to capture the big picture – and the big picture sometime includes shitty days where I just can’t quite get my head in the game. Plus, if you’ve ever spent more than 15 minutes with me you will know that I am a lover of rules – even the arbitrary ones I set for myself.
So here is February’s installment of Here and Now. A day where I felt like hell, my toddler could smell my lack of motivation and decided to act out, and I spent about 3 hours waiting at the Drs. office for common lab work and an antibiotic prescription to be written – I didn’t even need to see an actual Dr. (Which isn’t documented cause I’m pretty certain taking random photos in a military clinic is more than a little frowned upon.)
It’s a photographic essay full of holes and moment’s where I frequently thought, “Crap, I need to take a picture.” But it’s a day that happened. An imperfect stitch in an otherwise wonderful fabric.
