do you give yourself mini projects, short assignments or ?

[BradleyK]

I currently have three extensive long-term projects that I am working on, none of which have a decided terminal date (the beauty of not being a working professional...haha). These works aside, I carry a camera (or cameras) with me at all times, to photograph whatever should happen to catch my interest (Hence, as one fellow APUGer commented, my lack of commitment to either colo(u)r or black and white photography: I shoot both depending upon my mood/inclination/the weather).

 

[Arklatexian]

everyone works in different ways ..
some give themselves mini-assignments
( like the monthly shooting assignemnt here )
which focuses on DOF, composition, abstraction or whatever ...
some have a project they work on, like fire hydrants, mailboxes, public seats and
other "street furniture", or friends, family, strangers in their neighborhood, or the local tavern,
or movie palace or factory or stuff that is old and rustic and falling apart &c
still others buy fun gear and play with it, make new developers and play with them
just have a good time and don't really work in any sort of project or assignment mode ...

what is it that you do?
have any long or short term projects you are working on or recently finished ?
have any experiments you have been having fun with ( also includes sensometric/densimetric info gathering ) ...



"Mini", perhaps not. In June 2014 I decided to spend a month or two refurbishing my darkroom and workroom built new in the backyard near 1985. I refurbished the sink last year, refurbished three enlargers, replaced a small hot water heater and small window air conditioner last year and this year, and called the darkroom "finished" in early August, 2015. Now I must tackle the workroom which should take another month or so. It will probably take into January of next year. Things might go faster if I were one of you youngsters in your seventies instead of mid-eighties as I am but the important part of this project is it is and has been really enjoyable and has provided me with plenty of time to relive earlier times in "photography" as well as buy a few "new" things to use....It isn't all about MONEY, you know. This keeps being being taught to me in every project I enter.......Regards!

 

[Sirius Glass]

I will go to locations know what I want to shoot, where I want to stand and how the print will look.

 

[LarryP]

It depends 35mm not so much, MF much more so. I have 2 related projects in mf one is 'hammock isles' found in the coastal marshes and what I think of as salt killed live oaks along the edge of marshes and on barrier islands. The salt and wind combined to make them more twisted in shape and eventually kills them. Left behind is something that puts me in mind of a giants bonsai or large organic sculpture. I've about decided I need to get a jon boat or crabbers skiff with a salt water motor to get some of the shots I want.