Chock Full of Photographic Inspiration

Way­far­ing Wan­derer has posted another “Share the Love” give-away. While I don’t typ­i­cally enter con­tests that often, she has had some top­ics that have piqued my inter­est, and Project Inspi­ra­tion is another which chal­lenged me to par­tic­i­pate. Since I am just a begin­ner, I find pho­to­graphic incen­tives every­where. I love look­ing at the pho­tos of oth­ers, whether they be on flickr, pho­to­stock wes­bites, pho­tog­ra­phy forums, news­pa­pers & mag­a­zines and of course the many blogs I visit. She men­tions how the weather has been drain­ing her of cre­ativ­ity and since I have felt this same lack of excite­ment on my learn­ing jour­ney, here is my take on this subject.

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Eco-Friendly Entry

I have not yet had to plea­sure of meet­ing Way­far­ing Wan­derer but since we live in the same town, a pho­towalk is planned. I hope we will finally get to meet in the very near future, maybe for a photo-snow-walk or a hike at the Hebron Rock Colony. When I read about her “Share the Love” green give­away, I had to par­tic­i­pate for a chance to win one of her lovely prizes and per­haps the book “Liv­ing Green”, a lovely pic­ture frame or a re-usable bag may also be in my future. I could think of plenty of eco-friendly things I do cur­rently to brag about but it was alot harder to think of ways to improve upon the many eco-friendly actions I take on a daily basis. 

5 things I do right now that are eco-friendly:

1. Use re-usable con­tain­ers for take-out food and re-usable bags for shop­ping; sup­port restau­rants which use recy­clable take-out con­tain­ers
2. Make my own home­made house­hold cleaners
3. Com­post throw-away kitchen waste
4. Recy­cle glass, plas­tic, metal, bat­ter­ies, CFL light-bulbs, paste­board, card­board, newspaper
5. Make a major­ity of healthy, nutri­tious meals at home

5 things I don’t do but can eas­ily start doing:

1. I hang out clothes on a clothe­lines mainly dur­ing the sum­mer but could do this more often in the fall and spring
2. Be more con­sis­tent with recy­cling & com­post­ing; some­times a few things that could eas­ily be recy­cled or com­posted end up in my trash because of pure laziness
3. Fin­ish rid­ding kitchen of plas­tic food stor­age con­tain­ers by find­ing inert alternatives
4. Save more food for left­over meals and make a plan to use these so they do not go to waste
5. Drive less; walk more

Nom­i­na­tion for prize: Blue Bird Hill

Good luck to all the entrants and much luck to every­one in achiev­ing their eco-friendly aspirations.

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