So get this: transitions are hard. My last day at the newspaper is coming closer and closer. At the end of August, I move away from some of my dearest friends and back to living with my momma. Do not get me wrong, I am not upset about moving home, moving away from Eau Claire is what breaks my heart. Right now I live in a small house with four guys, one other gal and two cats; it's pretty much never silent. At home, I can hear my own breathing as I read in front of a whole wall of windows. I have yet to decide which I like more.
When my internship ends, I will be job hunting with all of my extra time, another change from running to photo shoot after photo shoot. But here's the deal: I know myself. I'll get tired of job searching day in and day out and decide I need to do something. So what will I do? Probably sit on my phone for an hour before watching Netflix. That isn't restful or life-giving, so when I go back to searching, I'll find the task even more unbearable. I know I'm not the only one that deals with this problem, so I thought I'd share what I'm going to do to help combat it. I am a planner. I love organized information and colored schedules. I think in lists, so what better way than to make a few bucket lists? I started with just one, but I saw that half of it was photography related, so I split the two. Enjoy!
Photography
Life
Be well, my friends. I'm going to try to do the same.
Grace and Peace,
Anna
When my internship ends, I will be job hunting with all of my extra time, another change from running to photo shoot after photo shoot. But here's the deal: I know myself. I'll get tired of job searching day in and day out and decide I need to do something. So what will I do? Probably sit on my phone for an hour before watching Netflix. That isn't restful or life-giving, so when I go back to searching, I'll find the task even more unbearable. I know I'm not the only one that deals with this problem, so I thought I'd share what I'm going to do to help combat it. I am a planner. I love organized information and colored schedules. I think in lists, so what better way than to make a few bucket lists? I started with just one, but I saw that half of it was photography related, so I split the two. Enjoy!
Photography
- Photograph the Northern Lights well- it's the stock thing to photograph for a Minnesotan, but hey, it's cool, okay?
- Get better at landscape photography- learn how to pull emotion from a horizon line.
- Go on a photography road trip- start out with a loose destination and no daily itinerary and just drive, stopping each time you see something worth shooting. If you get where you planned, great, if not, that's okay too. It's the journey, man.
- Photograph star patterns- it's stargazing with a takeaway.
- Figure out how to shoot with film- use that camera for something other than decoration. Are you really a photog if you haven't shot with film?
- Get your photography company off the ground- naming it would be a start.
- Photograph your hometown- those pictures will be priceless when you're older.
Life
- Go camping- the kind with real tents and fire and the forest or North Shore, not sleeping bags in the backyard with microwave s'mores and running inside when you want to "actually sleep." Bring on the flannel and tin coffee cups.
- Swing dance in a different country- it's not only fun, it'd be a killer piece of trivia
- See more of Europe- France, Spain, Italy, Scotland, and Ireland, I'm comin' for ya. England, you're my first love, of course I'm coming back.
- Cook adventurously- food doesn't have to be fun solely when you're entertaining.
- Visit the coasts- that one trip to California wasn't enough.
- Find a church and join a small group in the Cities- anyone have any suggestions?
- Be an integral part of a community- a job at the newspaper made it easy, what will you do when you're part of the public again?
- Have work published in a major daily- StarTribune and Pioneer Press, I'm looking at you.
- Live a life worthy of the glory of God.
Be well, my friends. I'm going to try to do the same.
Grace and Peace,
Anna