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August 18, 2010 by Kat

One Brick at a Time

Today marks my 365th blog post – one year! I’ve been watching the little number tick up daily on my blogger dashboard and have been marveling. I’ve written one year of posts. To be honest, it took me two years to get the 365 posts, but I’ve decided it’s the number itself that counts. And since most of the posts are since I started doing the photo-a-day posts last November, it means more to me. It’s since that time that I’ve found my voice, found my eye, found myself here in this daily blog.

It’s funny, for the last couple of years, I’ve watched all of these people share their “Project 365” photos where they take a photo every day of the year, and I always said “I could never do that.” It’s wonderful to see bits and pieces of people’s lives captured daily, and they have a cool record of the year when they are done. But that never interested me. Much as I love photography, I don’t feel inspired to take a picture every day. I didn’t have interest in a project where I would start and invariably fizzle out after a month or two. But, when I got the idea to share a picture every day, to look through my pile of photos (metaphorically speaking) and pick out the best, the ones that speak to me in some way, now that I could do.

So here I am, at post 365. How did I get here I ask myself? One day, one image, one word at a time. Just like when building something monumental, a cathedral or a castle, it’s built one brick, one stone at a time. That’s what it takes.

Of course, in my case I don’t have a blueprint. I’m just figuring out as I go along and that seems to work. I don’t have hard and fast rules for myself, like “you must post every day” or “you must post in sequential order” or “you must have a specific topic” because that would all make it feel like work. I know myself, I would work really hard to meet the self-dictated rules and then, eventually, lose all interest because I would have lost the spark that got me started. Think about it, have there been times where your self-imposed rules have run you into the ground? Do you have any right now? I’m constantly on the lookout for them anymore. I’ve learned those little self-imposed rules are the ones that can get in the way of following my heart, creating great things because I’m so busy with the work of following my rules.

Thanks for joining me here, thanks for reading post 365 of the Kat Eye View. A place where rules are thrown out and images and words are based on whatever inspires me that day. A place where you can participate too, answer a question, leave a comment, tell me your view. I love to hear what’s going on with you! I’ve met some amazing people this way, through comments and blog hopping and I love it. One more thing that motivates me to keep going!

Ciao until next time, post 366…

(Image is of Rheinfels Castle, in St. Goar, Germany in the Rhine River Valley.)

Filed Under: The Kat Eye View of the World Tagged With: castle, door, Germany, Rhine, St. Goar, stone, vine

January 31, 2010 by Kat

Arched Entryways

This arch is an entryway into the castle ruins of Rheinfels castle in St. Goar, Germany. This is one of the medieval castles of the Rhine River Valley, and you can go inside and explore the ruins a bit. It is very cool to get an idea of what life was like in these castles, it seems like a hard life of defending your territory, cramped and not-so-sanitary living. Not as romantic as we make it out to be today!

I liked this photo because of the scale. You can see Patrick and Brandon inside the arch, and get an idea of just how big it was. They needed to be able to ride through on horseback with flags, etc. so it had to be tall. One more use of the arch, not as decorative as the Rennaisance arches in the Italian courtyards, but interesting just the same.

Filed Under: The Kat Eye View of the World Tagged With: arch, architecture, castle, entry, Germany, Rhine, St. Goar, stone

December 28, 2009 by Kat

Food, Glorious Food

Maybe I’ve been watching the Ice Age movies too much, because I have the song “Food, Glorious Food…” that the buzzards sing stuck in my head. But here in Europe, there is a lot of glorious food to sample, and to photograph. My waistline shows it too! This marvelous, carbohydrate-laden bakery window is from St. Goar, Germany, in the Rhine River Valley. Mmmmm…

Filed Under: The Kat Eye View of the World Tagged With: food, Germany, Rhine, St. Goar, store display

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