![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/March-WEB.jpg\" "\\"March-WEB\\"")
<\/p>\nOne quarter through the year. I’m proud of myself. Haven’t missed a day yet – unless you include January 1st, when my memory card failed me and I lost all the images I’d taken that day. And I don’t (include it). \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I also post all these photos on my personal facebook page for friends and family as I take them, and I tend to include a lot of commentary to go along with the photos. And it’s becoming such a treasure to me. I have a memory of my daughter saved from every day this year, in words and photos. It’s priceless. And the longer I do it, the more convinced of it. It’s not about every day’s photo. I’m not brilliant as a photographer or as a mother all the the time. I know a shock to you all. ;). Some days it’s harder than others to find a moment to grab the camera and be creative. But I’m committed to taking a photo no matter what – no matter how uninspired I feel or how inconvenient it seems at the time or if it’s literally only 1 or 2 frames I capture, even though my vision isn’t realized or the images are less than technically perfect. And because of that – because of the commitment to do it no matter what – there are some real gems in the mix, on the days when it does all come together. One of my favorites I’ve already printed up as a 20X30 and is hanging above this desk where I sit every day. I’m not going to print and hang them all, that’s for sure. But the great ones make the rest worth it. And I am learning a lot about how fleeting time really is and how important it is to me to bottle some of it up in little visual memories called photos. I *can’t wait* to see all these images in a photo book at the end of the year!<\/p>\n
The one thing I think I may give up for this next quarter of a year is the black and white. I feel like I’ve already learned a lot and stretched myself quite a bit, but I haven’t changed my mind. I still LOVE color more! And I miss color images of my baby girl. So, it’s back to color – at least for the next 3 months.<\/p>\n
Here’s March in photographs with an abbreviated key (at the bottom), a title that gives a hint of the story behind the photo…<\/p>\n
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Check out Daily Dose of ‘Dela in January<\/a>, and in February<\/a> too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One quarter through the year. I’m proud of myself. Haven’t missed a day yet – unless you include January 1st, when my memory card failed me and I lost all the images I’d taken that day. And I don’t (include it). \ud83d\ude42 I also post all these photos on my personal facebook page for friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,3,19,13],"tags":[715,49,65,72,73,369,92,113,396,184,244,407,249,250,408,409,258,430,304,331],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-365-yucca-valley-palm-spring-la-quinta-family-newborn-photographer","category-all-posts-yucca-valley-palm-spring-la-quinta-family-newborn-photographer","category-my-family-yucca-valley-palm-spring-la-quinta-family-newborn-photographer","category-my-photos-yucca-valley-palm-spring-la-quinta-family-newborn-photographer","tag-365-yucca-valley-palm-spring-la-quinta-family-newborn-photographer","tag-black-and-white","tag-candid","tag-child","tag-children-2","tag-daily","tag-delalane","tag-family","tag-kid","tag-lifestyle","tag-photo","tag-photo-a-day","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-photojournalism","tag-photojournalist","tag-portrait","tag-story-telling-photography","tag-toddler","tag-yucca-valley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-March-9-real-with-date-WEB.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10825,"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions\/10825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delalanephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}