Call it being crazy or call it loving a creative challenge (but mostly the crazy), I decided to take part in the 2010: A Year in Pictures project on Flickr.
The concept is that you take and upload a photo every day, for 365 days. After the end of the year, you have a nice little collection of your photographic adventures. Never one to back down from a creative challenge (says the three time finisher of National Novel Writing Month), I jumped at the chance to take part.
First Coffee of 2010, drank from my Attack From Outer Space mug.
I created a set on Flickr to hold all of my own photos, so keep checking that out every day for a new picture.
Will I miss days? Probably. Stuff happens and I’m not going to worry about it if I miss a day or two. This is for fun and a good excuse to get me out there and take more pictures. Photography is one of my favorite hobbies and I’m happy for a chance to do it more often.
This project may be the push to get me to finally buy a decent SLR camera. I’m just using my Sony point-and-shoot for these. I’ll probably have a few taken by my phone, but I don’t want to do too many of those.
I’m having fun so far–I was up nice and early, taking photos of my old typewriter and messing around with the manual settings on my camera. I haven’t used the manual settings in a long while. Then I played around with the picture in Photoshop.
picture of my Underwood typewriter. I do not know its age.
I deleted every color channel except blue in Photoshop and then messed around with the shadows and highlights. I like the black and white look more, it fits the old time look of the typewriter.
This is exactly why I wanted to do this project: it is making me experiment with photos more.
Happy New Year!
