A Year Through My Eyes
Knowing my penchant for procrastination and my inability to post regularly, I’ve decided to work on it and have fun at the same time with a little project. Anyone who knows me knows I love photography; I’m always looking for ways to be a better photographer. So I was pretty excited when I happened upon photojojo’s Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way.
The idea is pretty self-explanitory: Take a unique photo every day for a year. This is a really fun idea because, as Photojojo says:
PHO-TO-JO-JO!
- Imagine being able to look back at any day of your year and recall what you did, who you met, what you learned… (Often we find it hard to remember what we did just yesterday or even last night, let alone a whole year ago!)
- Your year-long photo album will be an amazing way to document your travels and accomplishments, your haircuts and relationships. Time moves surprisingly fast.
- Taking a photo a day will make you a better photographer. Using your camera every day will help you learn its limits. You will get better at composing your shots, you’ll start to care about lighting, and you’ll become more creative with your photography when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day.
Sounds pretty convincing to me!
As I said, I’m doing this to both improve my photography and teach myself a little discipline (which will hopefully also translate into more frequent posts here at euicho.com), but I also am going to use it as sort of a quick daily journal. I’m displaying this little project on Flickr (of course), and in each photo’s description I’m going to put a little mini journal entry about what I did that day and anything interesting that happened. Since I try to keep euicho.com more professional and less like a journal (with the exception of my photos, and posts like this), this new pseudo-photo-blog will be the perfect place for friends and family to go read up on what I’ve been up to lately. I’ve just started a week ago, so check back often to see how its going. You can see my A Pic A Day project as a slideshow or not. And please read the full Project 365 article at PhotoJojo.com. They are a great photography newsletter.
Dad, 
euicho 10:17 pm on 10/25/2006 Permalink
wow, no comments for a month. This site is getting stagnant…
Doody 12:46 am on 10/26/2006 Permalink
COMMENT!
I look forward to going through the journey with you too. That probably would be a good thing for me to do also. I can understand how it would make you a better photographer and it would be fun. I may copy you one day, I just may. I look forward to your journey too.
euicho 12:40 pm on 10/26/2006 Permalink
Hey, it’s an idea mean’t to be spread, you should do it! And you’re not copying heh.
Jesse 9:50 pm on 10/26/2006 Permalink
Yeah, what have I been doing with my time. I went a month without making fun of one of your posts, for shame.
Nyrath the nearly wise 9:58 pm on 10/29/2006 Permalink
Sorry about the no comments.
I will say that the photo attached to this entry is the first one you’ve done that comes near to capturing how pretty Amme really is.
euicho 11:33 am on 10/30/2006 Permalink
Hey no apologies for not commenting! Heh. And yes, Jesse I think that was a record.
Amme has such a beautiful smile but she’s just too pretty for any photograph to show. I do agree though that this one comes the closest. It was a random candid shot I took while she was spacing out heh.
Dad 10:54 pm on 11/6/2006 Permalink
Hi Son:
Just finished browsing through your web site and getting caught up with all the new pictures, blogs, and various links as well as your Flicr photo journal. Nice work.
Portland pictures were awesome! Lets do it again soon…..
Take care. Love you
Dad