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(10/365)

It’s difficult to provide an executive summary of why I’m doing this 365 project. An adequate answer to a question like  “why are you bringing your camera to lunch?,” requires more than just a few words and, at least in this case, isn’t unlike providing an honest answer when someone asks you how you’re doing: depending on the situation, he or she probably isn’t looking to hear your life’s story.

I guess that the need to even explain myself feels foreign. At least as of late, I’ve been so used to having my camera everywhere I go–and having it just being understood why I have it–that it seemed that everyone I know either a) knows specifically of this undertaking or b) knows, generally, that photography is serious to me. In retrospect, that probably only holds true for a subset of my friends, so I shouldn’t hold it against anyone if I’m asked why I have a camera with me.

Nonetheless, I reserve the right to be less than forthcoming if it feels like it’s just going to be an exercise in justification.