This is a great post. As you mentioned in another post, I am commencing a personal project that is focusing on the industrial and commercial fringes of the Denver Metro area. Your SMART workflow is a solid way to evaluate a project for feasibility and constraints that may hinder productivity in the field. Furthermore, your discourse about the project being enjoyable versus tasking is a very good point. From a personal perspective, doing this project is a challenge because I typically do nature photography in beautiful natural settings, while this project focuses on depressing, sordid areas of little aesthetic desire. Of course,
there is an inherent beauty in everything, so the goal is to document these subjects and areas in an attempt to portray a little bit of history, but also invoke an emotional feeling in my audience.