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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Photo A Day Project Failed

For the third year in a row, my photo a day project failed. I have sent out to take a photo every day of the year and have not been able to keep it up. I have a hard time with this for two reasons. I have a hard time finding the artistic drive that the project needs. I start to run out of themes quickly into the year. After a while I started to get lazy. It would have taken a lot of effort to take photos that are new.

Part of the problem is that I have some 8000+ photos on flickr. There are lots of things subjects in this area which I have already shot. It was also hard to find the time. It was not at the front of my thoughts everyday.

Here are a few things I can try next year to make it work better.

1. Pre-plan more photos - Try to have my next week of photos figured out before I get there. This will help me figure out when I need to go out of my way to get a photo.
2. Let myself take photos I have taken before. If I need to take a photo of City Hall or the Mary Statue it is okay.
3. Do not go to the same well too many times. I got bored because I took too many photos of myself in the same way. This got really boring after a while.
4. Put time aside to take pictures. It is hard to find time some days. It might be easier to find the time if I put it on my calendar.

Let me know if you have any hints about doing a 365 photo project.

Labels: flickrpost, photo365, photography, self

- Rich, 4:44 PM |

Monday, January 01, 2007

A Year In Photography Part 2 - 365 Project

June 7: graffiti budda
Originally uploaded by earthdog.

I failed one of my goals for 2006. I tried for the second time to take a photograph every day for a year. I know lots of people who try challenges like this. It is long enough that it hard, but it is not a lot of work. You just need to make sure you do it everyday. It is about being thoughtful.

I first tried this in 2004. That time I only got a month into the project before I failed. That was before I was a flickr user. I was interested in Digital photography at the time, but I did not know anyone else doing the same thing.

This year I thought it was a good time to try this again. In 2005 I really got into digital photography. I started using Flickr a lot in 2005. I started to meet a lot of people doing digital photography. It seemed like the right project for 2006.

The project started off well. Flickr is the perfect tool for a project like this. Not only did I have a place to put all my photos. I also had a good way to show the photos month by month. It helped me keep track the photos.

I failed at the start of August. I cannot remember why I failed, why I missed some days. My guess is that the living of my life distracted me from taking my camera everywhere with me. I currently not even sure what days I missed. I know that I stopped posting photos from everyday.

This year I will try again. I will try to take a photograph everyday. I will try to find new things to take photographs of. I will try to find new things to take photos of. I will try to cover as much new territory as possible.

Here are my month by month photo a day sets from 2006. I made sets for the months that I failed also. I want to see how many days I missed total. I think it might help me in 2007.

2006 365
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

January 2007

Labels: 365, flickrpost, photo, photo365, photography

- Rich, 10:21 PM |

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