DAY TWO

Foggy, cloudy weather at the ocean makes me happy. 

(Sunny days are boring)

DAY ONE

I hope we will have more beautiful thunderstorms.

INTRODUCTION

Today marks the very first post of our 2015 Blog Project for photography, titled Signs Of Hope.

The main motivation is to get us to spend more time appreciating "sings of hope" and seeing these in day to day life.

As for my personal expectations for this project, I expect nothing. I don't expect suddenly feeling happier, I don't expect some magical feeling of extreme creativity and I don't anticipate to enjoy this assignment. I do not agree with this assignment. As nice as the objective might be, this is a photography class (mind you: not a blog class). Instead of forcing some kind of "happiness" project on us, we should do what a photography class should do: focus on learning and improving our photography.  How does one work a camera? What is composition? How does one still take great pictures with a bad quality camera? How to take portraits? What is good lighting for portrait or still life photography? So many questions I feel are more appropriate to this class - rather than discussing signs of hope.

Personal happiness does not come from a class assignment, but it comes from yourself. A blog will not make me happy.

As for whether or not I believe in the "21-day rule", many reliable sources have proven this is no more than a myth. As written by Jason Selk on Forbes, the 21-day myth is simply a misinterpretation of Dr. Maxwell Maltz's (plastic surgeon in the 1950's) work and studies. But, since so many people wanted it to be true (it sounds easy) the idea became more and more popular.

The foundation of this whole project is grounded on a hypothetical myth.