Counting Down

Well, the time is drawing near for me to start this thing, and considering I've sent out "The Email", I should take a couple minutes to fully flesh out exactly what it is I'm doing here.

My ultimate goal in all of this is to try to rekindle that itch I had for photography back in the beginning. I have come to realize, however, that this blog is not just for the photography, but also to share my life with you all. Some of you I know very well, and we talk on a regular basis, but I would wager for most of you that is not the case. It's so difficult to keep in touch with everyone in our lives. Hopefully this blog will be a way for you to see a small piece of my life, one day at a time.

This is not a gallery for my photography. That may be added at some point, but that is not what this is. This is a daily blog, dedicated to sharing bits and pieces of my everyday life with all of you. Interesting? Maybe not every day, but I think there will be interesting moments. Who can tell what the year will bring?

Finally, as much to myself as to you, don't expect perfection every day. As any photographer knows, you can take 300 photos in one session and get only one truly great photograph. I simply won't have time to take 300 photos a day. If I end up with 5 fantastic photographs at the year's end, I will consider that a success. A lot of the pictures I post may be mundane, abstract, even boring. But they will always be relevant. They will hopefully be a good representation of the day they were posted. Whether that photo represents an event, a feeling, or something else, it will be relevant to that day. I promise there won't be too many pictures of the cats....

Well, I hope this gives you an idea of what I'm trying to do here, and I hope it piques your interest. I may not be the best photographer or the best writer, but this blog will always be genuine, and sometimes that's enough.

OMG! 11 days to go!

Wow! Time flies. We're down to less than two weeks, and the reality of this project is actually starting to sink in. Taking a photograph every day is no big deal, but I need to come to grips with the fact that sometimes they're not going to be masterpieces. In fact, most of the time they won't be masterpieces. I'm very much a perfectionist when it comes to this sort of thing, so it's really going to be a learning process.

So I plan to be carrying a camera with me at all times. I'll rarely have my SLR on hand, but most of the time I'll have my point-and-shoot, and I'll always have my cell phone. We all know how great those cellphone pictures turn out! I guess what I'm trying to say, to myself as much as you, is don't expect perfection every day. It's not going to happen. The point of all this is to get the photography itch going again. Let's see if it works!

T minus 31 days and counting!

Well, there's only one more month until I start this thing. Where the heck has the year gone? I've been looking for some online storage options for all these photos I'll be taking, but haven't really made a decision yet. I think I'll probably go with photobucket, but the max storage amount isn't very high. I really need something that has a very high storage with very low (i.e. FREE) cost. Last time I checked, free was good! If anyone has any suggestions, please send me a link. Of course, that's assuming someone is actually reading this... :)

The idea....

I was browsing on digg.com tonight when I came across a very interesting article. The title was Project365 How-to: A Photo a Day This immediately got my attention. I've been playing with photography for a couple years now, (taking some classes, shooting some weddings) but lately I've gotten away from it. It really started to become a job for me, and the weddings were, for the most part, not a very enjoyable experience. To top it off, I started a new job, which was 2nd shift. Time was not something I had in abundance. I've really missed holding the camera, and this idea of taking a photo every day for a year really intrigues me. So I created this little blog to host this project. I won't be starting it until January 1st, but I was so stoked about the idea of this that I had to do something. I'm really going to do this. There probably wont be many posts on here until mid to late December, but believe me, I will surely be thinking about this. I'm really excited! I hope you are too.