Week In The Life : Wednesday Photos + Words

love love love this project! can't believe i'm doing it now, during an insane week of traveling prep and being 8 weeks pregnant. but so fun. kinda worried how i'm going to get all my favorite pictures in- any tips???

love this.

Still clicking away. It felt weird at first, but it is getting easier to get pics of me doing stuff. I think revisiting this idea every now & then is a good thing!

Hi Ali,
Yep, I am still following along but feeling kind of overwhelmed...arrghh...I haven't stressed much about it, still feel somewhat overwhelmed by it for some reason. That said, after looking back on the photos of this week so far I am grateful I have them and will be making an album with them b/c they truly do capture a moment in time and a "slice of life" so to speak. I have to say again...I just love your photographs. They are so "real" and there is a certain quality in them that I just love! Thanks for this project and letting us follow along on your week!
Stacy

I am stillg oing strong. I am actually finding the more days I get into it the more pics I take.
I am not the best photographer, but it's going good.

Thanks, i'm still hanging in their, this has done wonders for me, i'm still thinkin'

Hi Ali,
Thanx for the constant inspiration. Love checking your blog regularly. Still chugging along...with the pics and the words. I'm actually enjoying the process, find it kinda relaxing. Everyone around me, especially my boys are asking why I keep taking these "odd" pictures of random things....by day 3, they're use to it now, even the parents and teachers at their school...they all know me as the lady with the camera. I'm finding this "assignment" as a really eye opener of how all the "little things" in our daily routines make it a one great big, fantastic, opportunity to capture our life.
I'm also learning new things about my camera too...like how to use the timer...loving it! Thanks Ali!

Oh. My Goodness. Your OB's office looks very familiar. Is that office across from Sacred Heart? Clinic for Women?
Oh those anxious days of doing nothing but preparing, growing and waiting.
I am going to try and get my lists and pic's up on my blog tonight.
You are an inspiration!

So I have found the fact that I can't leave the house and I'm not able to do "more" a bit challenging. Literally every photo looks the same every day, so I'm changing the challenge to fit my life and grouping the photos into categories instead of days (Food, life, disability, connections and, of course, the dog). It's totally giving me a new perspective on things to photograph and how to look at aspects of my surroundings. It's been really interesting.

Ali,
I am just adoring this project. I love your style and your photos. I am having fun trying to think of new ways to capture to little things so that I don't have the same photos over and over each day. It's amazing how fleeting life is, and I am so grateful that I'll have a documentation of this time in my life, with my husband and my 11 month old daughter. I also think I'm going to use some of these pics to do the project Stacey Julian suggested, The Present to Me. Thank you for the ongoing inspiration and encouragement. Wow! Love it!
--Rachel

I'm really not stressing about it too much. Trying to follow along. Tomorrow I fly out to my grandmother's funeral--so that will be interesting to have that part of my week.
I had to laugh at some of your photos from today. We had a messy bed this morning and I thought about capturing it, didn't--but wish I would have. And I had an OB appointment today as well--37 weeks!

I wish photos were as well composed as yours, but I have really stretched myself to think more about the composition of still life during this project... today I spent 5 minutes in the car trying to get a good shot of the CD (sticking out of the CD player so you can read the words) the kids like to listen to in the car.
I also had my son's swimming instructor take a picture of the two of us in the water (we are in a parent & child swim class) --- a little embarassing, but I am glad I have one :) I have had to do a little explaining about why I am walking around with a camera all the time and taking pictures of strange things like the gas pump, groceries and my daughters' cubby at school.
Since it seems like we have a never ending supply of paper flowing into my house, I seem to have quite a few things in my artifacts pile --- target flier, coke bottle wrapper, clothing tags, cereal box, to do lists, and lots of "projects" from my 3 year old. Not sure how they will all fit in, but excited to try.
Thanks for posting all of this, Ali --- I started working on recording "a week" last Thursday before I even saw your post. I knew I would need stuff for a CKC class and last Thursday was the last possible day I could put it off until and still get a week in... once I read your posts I felt like I had more direction for the project and was much more enthusiastic and serious about capturing life. I spent a while tonight printing photos and I am very excited to see how everything comes out!

This project has been so inspirational for me. I live by myself, so sometimes it seems a little ridiculous to record the nuances of my daily life. However, I am really liking how much attention to detail I am paying to my day. A year from now, will I remember that on October 1, 2008, Oregon was considered one of Obama's states? Will I remember that I wore a red skirt to work? LOL! It's the fun stuff. I also made a point to use my camera timer to capture myself while I work. Being a teacher it got a bit tricky, but looking at a few of the images I captured...it's so cool to see myself in action. I never usually have too much of a problem taking random pictures of myself...but I've never used the timer at work. That was fun, something I hope to repeat.
Thanks for the inspiration. :)

QUESTION: When it comes time to make the album I'll be missing pictures of my daughter's preschool, which we went to twice this weeks and both times I forgot the camera. If it was you would you "cheat" and take a picture say next week and insert it, or just leave it out all together? I suppose I could photograph the art she came home with...
BTW My kids love the camera around all the time. They keep yelling while I'm driving "Mum! Look! A fire truck! Take a picture! Quick!"

Hi Ali,
Yep, and I am loving it. I feel like I've been handed a very important assignment and I am enjoying the "work" that goes into it. I am in a little bit of danger of burning out, simply because I have been taking so many pictures, and then staying up way too late to sort through them and blog about it. I'm going to try to be a bit more minimalist tomorrow.
I have to say that your OB visit pic really jumped out at me. What a familiar scene/feeling. I wish I had thought to capture that for myself at the time. Lord knows I've spent enough time in that exact pose on a similar table, waiting.
Glad everything is going well. :~)

I have only one camera, and it's a big one. I find myself not taking it out of the house, especially in the city where I might get mugged. It's just too cumbersome to take shopping when I'm balancing other bags, too obvious to have hanging around my neck on the street.
So I am focusing just on what my home is like this week. The garden full of veggies, a tree dripping with plums, laundry, kids playing in the play room, home-improvement projects half done, etc. I'm photographing mundane things I never considered important, and corners of rooms that are often out of focus in family candids.

I can't tell you how much fun i am having...the kids are involved,Grant Aslett is involved it's been a blast! My DT members are having a ball too...I love getting shots of them documenting!
This is the perfect week to do it...Change is in the fall air...lots going on, nothing going on...perf!
love you girl...
thanks for inspiring...
kiss kiss
m
ps man wow nice boobs!
lol

I will be taking your "Week in the Life" class at CKC Seattle, and I'm so excited to have a bit of a headstart on some of my ideas. I jumped into your blog a bit late to start documenting this week (I'm so totally compulsive with correctness that I have to start on a Monday or I'd be fretting the whole time-not a good quality in a scrapper, oh well, I make it work), so I'm going to "see" how you and the other folks work out the kinks and then I'll jump in feet first on Monday! I'm probably most excited to help my very sweet, yet dilusional, hubby understand that teaching 5th graders all day isn't a job where I just sit down and give orders! :-) I can't wait to give my students the camera and see me through their eyes during the day. I'm going to save my lesson plans from the week for my "stuff". Do you think it would be weird to enlist my sitter in this endeavour? My little guy is 15 months, and while I am pretty up to speed with how his days go, it would be fun for me to see how he spends his days with her. Maybe a set of layouts where there is the mommy working day, daddy working day, and Oliver playing day all in the same format so you can "see" where we all are at the same time in a day? Fun, fun!

OK-I just said I was a 5th grade teacher in the previous post, and then realized how horrid my grammar was! HA! And to think I get after my students for not proofreading...

I am still taking lots of photos and loving it!
Though i have been getting some strange looks sometimes at the photos i have bene taking when out. I have been taking at least 80 photos a day sometimes over 100. Have only collected some receipts from shopping over the past days, but have photographed the mail.
Can't wait for the weekend to get started organizing!
Kristin