You may have noticed I’ve been sharing photos of myself holding my Year of Hope journal, to share different pages.

I really love this.

I love sharing it here on the blog, and I love having these photos to share on social media, to put my work out there.

I did a lot of experiments, and lot of them felt really uncomfortable and didn't look the way I had hoped.

Then it turned out I really loved taking these photos beside the window in my bedroom, where there is that black part of my wall mural, and it’s right beside the window.

But then I re-arranged a few things and there is a plant in there way there which I have to move over each time I want to sit there to do a photo.

And now that summer weather is here, my portable AC is there too.

It’s just a lot to move around.

And I really want to have as FEW obstacles as possible to continuing to do this as a practice.

So I started taking the photos downstairs beside the window in my workspace.

Which is ok - but I am missing the BLACK in the background and how that feels. And the window is making weird shadows.

So today I just… moved a lamp over there to counteract the window and now - no shadows!

And I just realized - I can paint this wall black, too. There is a colourful mural there which fades out into white… it can just as easily fade out into black and give me that dramatic background I want.

One step at a time.

I wouldn’t have thought of all of this at once.

I figured out how I want to do it... because I started doing it.

I looked around to find a way to try it, and trying it showed me more about what I need - in terms of lighting, background, and space to put my tripod to do the photos. And each thing I adjusted made it a little easier until now when it feels like it’s all coming together.

This is how most things come together!

Not as a “oh I got this perfectly the first time” but more as “I showed up imperfectly, I tried out my ideas, I reflected on how that went and what I wish was different, I made adjustments, I kept showing up, I made more adjustments, now it feels pretty good to keep going knowing I will likely keep making adjustments and it can all get better and easier over time”.

Where are you waiting to be ready to take a perfect step and where can you take some imperfect steps?

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