With the amount of snow that fell in the city the last few days and the chilling cold, it's been difficult to find an opportunity to go out and shoot.

This project is forcing me to go gear up, go out and shoot, even in the middle of the winter, knee deep in snow. Something that wouldn't have happened last winter.

But the most important thing that it's teaching me, five weeks in, is confidence. Give me a camera—any camera—and a few hours, and I can be sure I'll deliver decent images. They may not be great, they may not be master pieces. Hell, they may not even be "good" by many standards, but they will have my personal signature style in them.