Tonight, my roommate and I went to Walmart to do some much needed grocery shopping.

While we were there, I went through the seasonal aisle, looking for Cadbury Bunny Eggs.

These eggs are my favorite treat. Every holiday has that candy that just sums up the holiday perfectly for me.

For Christmas I get those Taffy mint things with the little green tree on them.

For Holloween it is all about the Dots.

But Easter has the Cadburry Eggs, and they were excellent.

While on the candy aisle, I was shocked to see something. I can not remember who made the joke about Easter, questioning what the bunny has to do with the holiday.

However, he did make a valid point. We would not want kids eating candy versions of the symbols associated with the holiday.

Today, I saw these:

Personally, I would never consider myself religious, however I was a little shocked and offended by this find.

What do you think?

Not sure why, but she has been in an odd mood tonight.

Her moods tonight are: sleepy, hyper, talkative, goofy, playful and sweet. In any order you can imagine. Her emotional state seems to change every 5 minutes.

Here is an example of what I mean when I say talkative:

Naval Patel asked me on Twitter today what my inspiration was for my 365 project.

Since I could not figure out how to narrow down my thoughts to a single tweet, I thought I would spell it out in a nice blog post.

Because of others

A quick search on the internet will find tons of other people who have embarked on a 365 project. All of these people come with varying skill levels, and a preference for shooting different things.

This would be the first bit of inspiration from me. I go through Flickr and look at what other photographers are doing, and get ideas based around what they are doing.

The 365 can seem pretty daunting at first while you are doing it, but by looking at what others have done, I have the attitude of “They can do it, why can’t I.”

Variety is the spice of life

According to strengths quest, I am an input. This means that I like to learn new things, and try different things. This project encourages me to step outside my bubble and try new things; like developing my own film or building a pinhole camera.

Even if the experiment ends in a failure, I know there is something new to try; or I can learn what not to do next time I attempt this.

Also, this project has encouraged many photo adventures. There is something really fun about getting a group together, pointing in a direction and going there to find out what is over the horizon.

If I were to say I had an artistic statement for this project it would be: “I have never tried this before, so let’s see what happens.”

But I don’t.

Tons of Photos

I usually have at least one camera on me (I own 15 different cameras) and I take tons of pictures. A lot of these pictures are awful, but some of them are real gems.

I have an entire folder filled with slides and negatives next to an external hard drive filled with images. Have you ever seen any of them? Most likely not, because I never do anything with them.

One of the goals I have for this project, is to go through the folder and the Gigs of data I have and find some shots that are really worthwhile.

What does this button do?

My final inspiration behind this project is the equipment I use.

I have read the manual for my camera. I have read the manual for my flash. I read blogs and tutorials on everything from how to shoot this to what does this do in Lightroom.

However, I can not say this is how I learn.

I am one of those people that has to put something on its feet and try it out. Reading about it is great to get the idea started, but ultimately, I have to try and fail several times.

And now I am off to shoot my photo for the day.

Tonight, I was asked to shoot for the Young Professionals of Greater Lubbock.

Something about this shot I thought was really amusing.

Elvis, the guy in the black shirt was teasing Kelly the woman on the right in this shot.

But looking at the facial expressions you would think that everyone is mad.

Except for the guy in the back who has his eyes closed because he is scared.

Today, I decided I would edit some of the photos I shot the other night.

This is my favorite photo from the night. This street runs next to the bus station downtown.

Today I was playing around with my iPhone and snapped this. There are a ton of great iPhone apps for snapping pictures. This one I shot with The Best Camera.

Shooting a photo a day is getting a little tough.

Tomorrow I am going to try and do some digital pinhole shots and later this week I am going to experiment with Bokeh.