{"id":887,"date":"2018-07-20T22:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lensq.com\/?p=887"},"modified":"2018-07-20T22:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:49:15","slug":"100-day-photography-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lensq.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/20\/100-day-photography-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"100 day Photography Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. <\/span>
\nMaya<\/span>\u00a0Angelou<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 
\nI have been doing a lot of challenges since last year but for none of them I recorded a 100 day streak. This challenge made me break my own record for streaks.<\/span>
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How was this possible?<\/span><\/h2>\n

 
\nI struggled hard when I did 30 day blogging challenge. It used to take me a lot of time to think of a topic to write an article and then do the required research. There used to be days when I came back home after working for 14 hours and it used to be one of the most difficult times to sit down and write an article. <\/span>
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\nPhotography wasn\u2019t like that at all. It was easy. All I had to do is have a look at my surroundings and click what I find beautiful. There were definitely days when nothing I clicked came out as beautiful as I wanted them to be. But what mattered is me making it a habit.<\/span>
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How did it change my life?<\/span><\/h2>\n

 
\nOne of my friends clicks awesome photographs. I always encouraged her saying \u201cYou should start your own website. You are so talented.\u201d She simply brushed it off saying \u201cAnyone can click photos.\u201d I retorted that I don\u2019t own a good phone like her. She simply replied that she clicked even when she didn\u2019t have a great phone. <\/span>
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\nThat was the moment I decided that even I will start clicking photos. That evening on my way home, I started clicking whatever I found beautiful. After clicking 30 odd photos, I noticed that a few of them looked really beautiful. Coincidentally, that evening my friend also clicked the same places I did. But hers looked better. That was when she introduced me to an editing tool and Instagram. There was no looking back since that day. <\/span>
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\nOn the first day, I posted the photos as my Whatsapp status. My whatsapp started flooding with appreciation. One of my friends who is a photographer said that he was pleasantly surprised that I has this angle. That was a good compliment for me to start taking photography seriously. <\/span>
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\nI started bugging my friend, who inspired me to click photos, to review my photos. I forced her to be my mentor even though she was not ready for it. On the fourth day, she was sick. I enquired about her health and then shamelessly asked her to give her feedback on the photos I clicked. That was the moment, I realised that I crossed that line where it comes under bugging and no more of helping. But she put it in a mild way that I was being an over enthusiastic student.<\/span>
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\nSince I can\u2019t travel to click pictures, I used to click during my commute. I had my favourite window seat in my office van. I used to be annoyed if I didn\u2019t get that because I would miss out on clicking good pictures that day. I used to get weird stares from the people in my cab for my struggle to click pictures. One such day, I told my cab friend about my new hobby. She looked at my pictures and narrated a story on what good photography is. That one story changed the way I look at photography and I started to introduce life into the pictures.<\/span>
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\nOver time, I was running out of ideas. This gave me inspiration to go back to my routine of morning jog at the Marina beach. I started waking up without an alarm by 5:30 AM. I had something to look forward to every day. My day used to start on a brilliant note. I also clicked some of the best photos in the beach. The other joggers told me what are some ideal places to click photos on the beach. <\/span>
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\nWith the consistency in posting, a lot of compliments flowed in different forms, shapes and depth. Each of them were different. Even though that gave me a lot of encouragement, I felt like a fake photographer who won\u2019t be able to sustain it for long. In midst of all this insecurity, I got an offer to be a photographer from a friend which was totally unexpected. This drove me more insecure as I had no formal training or knowledge on photography. But at the same time, I was happy that someone could recognize the potential and it was time for me to build the skill.<\/span>
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\nAs the days passed, a few friends who don\u2019t really give compliments also started appreciating the photographs. That pumped up my confidence levels further. The most wonderful part was a friend saying that she looks forward to my pictures everyday. That made me push myself to click something different everyday.<\/span>
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\nI started visiting restaurants with good ambience to explore food photography. During one such instance, I was received really well by the store manager who offered me a discount on the food. Also, I had other visitors asking me for my website and to click their pictures.<\/span>
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\nEven though it has been 100 days, only in the past few weeks, I had clicked some of the photos which I felt were really close to my heart. Today, at the end of the 100 days, even though the appreciation kept me going, what matters more is I am happier than before. It gave me a new identity and a new confidence in life. It made me realize how beautiful the world around me is. Just adding a little bit of colour to the pictures brightened up my life. It was a stress buster during office hours to edit the photos I already clicked. It expanded my creativity to other areas of my life. I started cooking food creatively. Overall, it was an amazing and memorable experience to cherish for a lifetime.<\/span>
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