Life as a photo narative

I love the art of the narrative, regardless of the medium: photography, novels, audio, films...  Our lives are a compilation of moments, and sometimes these moments can be captured.  I'm sure everyone throughout the course of history has thought that they were living in a unique time, and I wholeheartedly agree. Some days feel special, while other days just feel special. This is an era of total documentation, we record every little thing, you tube, pictures, blogs and maps.  There are more maps now than anytime in human history.  Cartographers you have served us well. Everything has been charted; thank you google maps/earth/space. 

In my never ending quest for a satisfying narrative, I've given up Facebook for a new social media addition: Instagram.  I love the camera on my iPhone, I realize that some of you might disagree with this statement. It has given me the ability to take pictures and capture moments that would have been otherwise ignored. 

Halfway through February, I decided to join the photo a day challenge.  There are several versions of this out there, but I've gone with the one from an Aussie blogger. It's been a fantastic experiment in creativity.  If you have thought about participating, I highly recommend it.  I've done pretty well this month, and only missed one day.  But I have a fantastic excuse, the topic was "clouds" and it was one of those obnoxiously typical sunny California days and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.  I was going to be creative and draw a cloud on a post it and attach it to my window.  But by the time I remembered my concept, the sun was down.  Oh well. 

Photos are a narrative, and now I'd like to include some of my Instagraming in my posts.  I'll try and keep these to only the best of each week.  Somedays the topics are lame, or that's just my excuse for why my photos are less than fabulous.  All pictures are via iPhone, but I have no problem with using all of my filter aps.  I think tweaking the pictures are half the fun.   Hope you enjoy.