Project 365

I have assigned myself a Project 365 for 2007: to take one interesting photo every day for the entirety of 2007.

A Project 365 can be anything you want it to be — taking a photo, writing a poem, collecting a found object — and the only rule is that you do it every single day for the whole year.

I decided to take a photo each day. I’m not requiring of myself that it be high art or amazing technique or anything like that; in fact, I suppose it doesn’t even have to be interesting. As long as I do it. My original idea was to take 365 self portraits, but that’s a LOT of pictures of me. I don’t think I want to see 365 pictures of myself. So I’m going themeless, although I’m sure some of them will be self portraits.

Actually, in a way, all of them WILL be self portraits, because every time I choose a subject for a photo, I reveal a little something about myself…

Anyway, at the end of the year I will basically have a photo diary of the past 365 days. Sometimes I have trouble remembering what I did two days ago, so I think it’s going to be very cool to be able to look back and see something that I did or some place that I was or something that I saw, every single day.

I’ll also have a nice big collection from which I can pull the best shots and add them to my portfolio. (Oops, did I just give away my secret identity there? Oh well. It’s not like 98% of y’all don’t know me already anyway)

I guess part of the point is committing to the challenge of doing something every single day besides brush my teeth and shower (yeah, I’m pretty low maintenence!). But I also think that it’ll challenge me creatively, as a photographer (make that a wannabe photographer; I’ve dated enough of them, worked with enough of them, and married one of them, to know that my talent ain’t shit in comparison).

So if you are interested in watching my life progress before your very eyes, you can bookmark my Project 365 photostream.