I’ve seen three major approaches to projects like this:

1. Focus on your favorite type of photography and try to improve it.
2. Focus on a less comfortable type of photography and try to improve it.
3. Attempt to encapsulate your day in a photo.

I started out well within my comfort zone–macros of flowers–because flowers hold still, it’s spring (hooray!), and I’m trying to push the limits of my digital point-and-shoot (they’re pushed). By the end of the month, I had moved more towards the third approach.

I improved some aspects of my photography, and managed to create a fairly interesting (to me, anyway) account of my month: spring in Colorado, Florissant, Steamboat Springs, and my trip to Houston last week. There aren’t a lot of people in my photographs because I don’t like posting photos of people online without asking first. The main thing I am taking away from this experience is that I’ve pushed my point-and-shoot as far as it can reasonably go, and I seriously need to start looking at DSLRs if I want to take the photos I imagine.

You can see most of my photos in my Project30 Flickr Photoset.

April 9: A tree on the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus, from a bus stop.

April 10: It snowed again! Probably not the exact same leaflet from the 6th, but the same bush.

A gratuitous cat photo from the 10th below the cut. This one is always in motion and difficult to photograph (the other is low-contrast black and camera-shy and also difficult to photograph).

In contrast to yesterday’s sunny, warm spring weather (I wasn’t able to take any pictures before the snow melted):

Withered winter berries and new spring leaves. I didn’t get the focus quite right on this one:

I was very excited yesterday when I noticed the trees and bushes around my apartment were finally leafing out in earnest.

Of course, this morning it snowed. That’s Colorado.