P52:3 | Favorite

So you know how most people have a favorite song, a favorite movie, a favorite book, a favorite restaurant? Not me. I am fickle and changeable and moody, and my favorite things change with the wind. It’s not a new thing. I remember being stumped by the favorites sections in those All About Me books that I used to get when I was a kid, or in the My Senior Year book that I got with my graduation invitations. At first, I tried to fill them out, but found myself going back a few weeks later to scribble out and change answers, so eventually I gave up and left them blank. And those internet security questions? Where you have to commit to a favorite . . . something, and remember it months or years later when you’ve forgotten your password? Forget it. I need something concrete. Unchangeable. The place of my birth. My mother’s maiden name. You get the idea.

So imagine my thought process when I found out that this week’s P52 prompt was Your Favorite. Once again, I was stumped. After a lot of thought (and scrapped ideas) I went with this . . .

My favorite morning ritual. Usually. Sometimes I’m feeling British, or reading Pride and Prejudice, or watching Sherlock, and then it’s tea. But most of the time, first thing in the morning, it’s the thought of coffee that drags me from my warm nest of blankets to deal with my bright-and-early morning-people children. God does love a practical joke, apparently.

One of my photography goals for this year, and for this P52, is to stretch out into types of photography that I don’t practice often, like still life and macro. Those were some of my favorite types of photography when I first got into it, oh, 20 years or so ago. When I became a mom, my focus changed to photographing babies and children, and as much as I enjoy that, I also find myself wanting to grow in other areas of photography.

My other photography goal for this year is  to find my “style.” Much like my inability to settle on a favorite movie, I’ve also had a hard time settling into a style of photography and post-processing that is recognizably me. I could easily pick out the work of my favorite photographers from amongst the masses, and I know that right now that isn’t true of my work. I’m hoping that by shooting consistently within this P52, some common thread will emerge. I can’t wait to see all of my P52 shots all in one place at the end of the year.

Oh, and for the record, this is my favorite shot from this year’s P52. So far. But check back with me next week . . .

Thanks for stopping by! The next photographer in this week’s Clickin Moms P52 blog circle is Karen Buchanan. Go check out her interpretation of this week’s theme.

{For my photographer friends, this was shot with the Canon 5D MarkII,
Canon 24-70 2.8L (first version) @ 64 mm, ss 1/100 @ f4, ISO 1600.}