My 365-day photo project status

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:31:23 +0200

As you may have noticed I have stopped posting new photos to my 365 day photo project. The reason is simple: the photos – and particular the one from Monday last week – are stuck on a film that’s still not full. I’ve loaded a new film last week Sunday evening, at the end of our 3rd hiking day. Unfortunately, I got sick during that night, unable to continue hiking the next day. Hence, I only took a few film shots the next morning instead of having had a whole day of shooting ahead of me. So, I returned home with 30+ photos still left on the film. And I haven’t yet managed to fill it up. Hopefully, I’ll manage to do so by the end of the week though, and then everything will be posted here in quick succession.

50 days into the 365-days-project

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:46:00 +0100

I’m fifty days into my 365-days-project. Here are a few thoughts on it so far.

I’m taking way more photos

Since I’m carrying my X100s around my shoulder most of the time when I’m outside¹, I’m taking way more photos than I used to. This results in being able to capture things and moments that I wasn’t able to photograph before – or was too lazy to do so.
The crucial bit really is to have the camera around my shoulder and being ready to take a photo any time.
I am carrying my iPhone and its camera with me all the time, too, but that’s always in my pocket and needs taking out. This seems like only a tiny hinderance for taking photos, but it really is way easier when you have a camera ready to go any second.

It might help me find my style

Another side-effect of taking more photos seems to be, that I’m becoming more aware of what I’m interested in with my photography. There already seem to be a few themes or projects naturally emerging, which is quite interesting.

It’s a great diary

Taking – and publishing – at least one photo every day really helps to remember what I did that day – or at least let’s me document a tiny detail/bit that interested me that day.
I often feel like time flies, and this project is a great tool to counter this feeling. And while sometimes my photos feel quite ordinary and unimportant on each day, I feel like in hindsight, it will proof to be a valuable record for me personally.

It’s going to be long!

It’s not all roses here, though. On quite a few days I have felt uninspired and halfhearted. It’s not always easy to produce an at least somewhat meaningful or beautiful photo every day for one year. But I think the effort is going to be worth it in hindsight and I’m looking forward to what lies ahead of me.