By Sarah Shotts, Miss May 2015
Ready for your first adventure?
Last week* I challenged you to go on one mini-adventure each week this month. Here’s your first adventure prompt. You can also write about these adventures on your blog if you’re looking for new blog ideas. Adventures are a great way to get un-stuck if you’re feeling in a rut.
Adventure #1 – Photo Walk
This is a very simple adventure you can even do in your own neighborhood. Here’s how it works…
Choose a location that you’re very familiar with. It can even be the inside of your own home. I chose the park where I go walking every morning.
Take 10-15 minutes and explore that space with your camera in hand.
This isn’t about taking good photos. This is about SEEING a familiar area with fresh eyes. Use a camera that you’re comfortable with (like the one in your mobile phone) and try to notice things that you don’t usually pay attention to. Each time something catches your eye take a photo.
Slow down and really pay attention. Look closely at details. Go off the beaten path.
(But if you’re likely to go off road like me be sure to dress appropriately. My yoga pants got soaked and covered in cut grass this foggy morning.) Hahaha… 😉
Look all around…not just at eye level. Look up. Look down. Peek over and around. Keep a special lookout for anything that’s changed. Has something new bloomed? Grown? Appeared? Take a photo.
Hopefully this mini-adventure will give you some inspiration. I formed the idea for this blog post on my regular morning walk. I found myself enamored with the fog and realized I was more focused on taking photos than walking laps.
My exercise routine had turned into a photo walk and that sounded like a fun adventure prompt to share with you. Even if your space isn’t covered in fog or dew I’m sure you can discover some new things about it by taking a closer look. Maybe you’ll get inspired with an idea of your own. 🙂
Walks also free up our subconscious to work on problem solving in the background. This isn’t the main point of our adventure, but is a nice side benefit. 😉 While you’re taking photos your brain will continue puzzling out whatever you’re currently working on.
After your adventure look through your photos and decide how you want to share them. Did you notice something specific you’d like to write a blog post about? Is there one photo you’re dying to post to Instagram? Do you want to upload the whole she-bang to a photo gallery? Do it!
When you share your adventures on Instagram & Twitter be sure to use #WeeklyVenture so we can find each other’s photo walks. I can’t wait to see what you discover!
Cheers,
