12 of 12, January 2012

Well, this month’s 12 of 12 requires a little bit of explanation.

For those of you familiar with my 12 of 12 tradition, you know what to expect, except that this month there’s a whole bunch of extra story and photos to tell and show, covering the 12th and the days surrounding it, since the 12th fell in the middle of a bushwalking trip. To get the extra context, including bits that happened between the photos that I picked for 12 of 12, you’ll need to check out the full Lake Waikareiti story as well.

For those of you who haven’t met “12 of 12” before, it’s a sort of photographic personal social history exercise. On the 12th day of every month I take 12 photos (actually I usually take quite a few more than 12, but I then CHOOSE 12). Sometimes I pick a theme, sometimes I try to show the typicality of that day or the typicality of my everyday life, sometimes I try to be creative photographically, and sometimes I get lucky and I’m somewhere intrinsically exciting. I’ve been doing this for over two years now.

This month I was somewhere intrinsically exciting, bushwalking (“tramping”) in New Zealand. The photos I’ve picked for 12 of 12 try to show some of the great things we saw and did, but also show some of the typicality of a bushwalking trip.

So, if you click on this link you’ll get the introductory page showing miniatures of my 12 photos, and then you can work your way through the collection and the accompanying commentary/explanation.