7 Days {nap time}

Submitting the this shot for Sunday Snapshot.  

The particulars?  Hmmmmm...

Cell phone shot with Instagram.  That's all there is!

As y'all know, I'm without my SLR still.  And left with my camera phone and might as well try to grow all I can with it.  Actually, not worrying about apertures, shutter speeds, and ISOs, has been liberating in a way.  I'm finding that I am forced to be more creative.  Lately I've really been drawn to photo styles that tell more of a story rather than just create a portrait.  Photographers like AshleyAnn at Under the Sycamore and  Jessica at One Ruby Willow.  Oh I so want to do what they do and be able to capture plain ol' life in such a narrative way that seems to tell a story of who they are so beautifully!

So it was nap time and I had my phone with me.  At first I just wanted to capture the cute little flowers that Liv had put in Mimi's hair.  Not much special.  And the next day I found myself  with my phone again, and I liked seeing the progression of the two days of pics together.  I decided to keep taking pics the next several days at nap time.  In the end I had 7 days of photos that I really think gave much more of a tiny slice of our life.  It's nothing special.  But in the details, it's who we are and how we live.  And that's always what I've always most wanted to capture in my photographs.  I did crop and edit all the pics in the same way to make them more cohesive.  I think it forced me to work on narrative photography.  

So here's naptime.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

So did you see my unmade bed?  If the blanket is pulled up, I pretty much consider it a victory these days.  I loved seeing what she wore day by day.  And the blanket on the end of her bed that has now successfully made it through 7 children!  Is there anything cuter than baby belly buttons?  I think not!  On the pig shot, I really just wanted to see what kind of depth of focus my phone/camera was capable of, so I used the pig she fell asleep with.  And there is the side car that saved my sanity and my marriage!  Mimi goes freely between our bed and her side-car all night.  I really do need to pull back more often.  Even if it does show the messes.

I loved loved loved that I was forced to be more creative as time went by.  Some days getting up high and others down low.  Or something that I don't do enough of, pulling back and getting a wider shot.  Even with my plain ol' phone and Instagram, I really loved the results and especially appreciated that I had different ideas of how to shoot the same subject matter over and over with new angles and perspective.  I really think practicing this will help me be a better photographer.  And I know that this is the kind of images that I would have LOVED to see from when I was growing up.  So I am totally going to do it again.  I was thinking that my next subject matter would be what I was wearing every day that week, but quickly realized that y'all would figure out that I wear the SAME holey black yoga pants nearly every single day!  So maybe not.  So maybe it should just be what Sunny wears every day for a week?  Or maybe the family dinner table each night?  Hmmmmmm.  So many possibilities!

Anyone want to join me in capturing 7 days of plain ol' life?  Or maybe just 5?  Could you even swing 3?
Might be fun to have a link up and share.