I’m glad I had failed my photography challenge 365

I am not ashamed to admit that I am glad to have failed in my challenge of photography 365 in 2023! Let me explain why.

You will have guessed for the title that I am here to confess that I failed my challenge of photography 365 that I put on New Year’s Day!

I failed and, you know, I’m very happy to have done it. Yes, you read it well.

For the substantive publication, you can consult all my photograph of this year’s challenge here, but this publication will explain how it came to an end after 136 days. 136 of 365 is not something to be ashamed. For those who have tried a challenge of photography 365, whether they achieved it or “failed” as me, they will know how difficult that challenge is.

During the first months, I felt that I had inspiration, a lot of photography ideas waiting to be captured. It became clear that life, when it was put under the daily photographs microscope, is quite boring. Quite mundane. At least mine is.

I have a work from 9 to 5 in an area of ​​stressful law where I barely leave my office at home all day and before and after work there are family routines that cannot be eluded. Trying and constantly taking pictures of something unique every day not only becomes a task but is completely unpleasant. After a while, he made me resent my camera.

The Fujifilm X-T5 does not deserve that.

The main aspect of the challenge that I really did not like was to feel forced to publish social networks every day. I also knew that my efforts would be judged and perhaps my photography skills questioned. I say that because I can see that the photographs I created were boring, of the mundane and some of being very lazy; Taken once my brain reminded me while I was lying on the bed trying to sleep.

Until one day, May 137, my brain, my brain simply forgot to remind me. I did not feel smaller as if I had “failed” the challenge: I felt relieved, grateful for not having to pick up my camera. Which is strange considering my love for photography. It has even taken me almost an extra month to write about that!

Despite my joy to fail the 365 challenge, I captured some good memories, from great trips to Portugal and Cyprus and just day by day; My beautifully ordinary life.

My favorite photos of my photography challenge 365

For those who stayed, thanks and I hope I have inspired him to collect or maybe even leave his camera only for a moment! We all need a break and there is no need to force anything. I am quite sure that you will never see me trying a 365 photography challenge again!

I really want to see what the rest of 2023 brings and maybe I will turn on my camera soon!

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