My Evolving Challenge is Full of Surprises: Photography?

(Another one of my posts from the 45 Day Boundless Living Challenge)

To be quite honest, I've lost track of what day of the 45 day challenge this is and all I know is that it ends September 4th! My original challenge was to write a book in 45 days. Now I didn't specify what kind of book, but I left the possibilities open to any inspired idea that would get my attention. My first surprise was that I decided to use an adaptation of an article I wrote last year and develop it. That quickly turned into the idea of creating an e-book (which I've been saying for a year that I needed to write!). My intention is to give it out for free.

The next surprise was that I had this inspiration to put some visuals with the words and decided to create the visuals myself! After searching around for "free" photography, artwork, and images on the web that I could use without getting into copyright trouble, I just decided to grab one of my cameras and shoot the pictures myself! That way, there will be no question that the book is entirely mine.

I'm no professional photographer, but I have always loved photography and taking pictures. I find that I'm often inspired by art and by beautiful images of nature, and particular flowers, but not necessarily just flowers. What I love are colorful images, shining, bright images, abstract art, and photos of space, to name a few. I love to garden and actually have a small one this year here in New York, so I shot some images of some of my vegetables, too.

So I've spent the last few days trying to catch some images with my very simple digital camera. I just learned that I had a digital macro function on my camera so I took some shots today that I might use. I also have an old, old Pentax manual camera with a zoom lens that still works and I may just shoot a few things to see how those look, too. Lately, I had been thinking about buying a more expensive digital camera (a Nikon) to just play around with. Now I'm feeling that buying that Nikon will happen sooner rather than later.

Who knows what other surprises in the form of inspired action there are in store for me? I don't know but I'm really looking forward to seeing what I create next! And my tapping is having great results! Here's a peek of what I did today. (Anyone want fresh, organic, safe tomatoes on their salad?)