Day 21

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GeoTagged, [N53.48895, E0.87596]

Day 20

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Day 19

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Day 18

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Day 18

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Day17

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Day 16

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Day 15

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Day 14

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Day 13

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Day 12

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Day 11

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Day 10

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Day 9

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Day 8

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Day 7

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These are the first flowers in the garden this year, I wish the sun would shine.

Nikon D200 70/200 lens 1/60 sec at f5.6

Day 6

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This was taken near Stocksbridge.
Nikon D200 16-85 Lens 1/80 sec at f9.0 on a cold cloudy day.

Day 5

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Taken with my iPhone

Day 4

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This is Balloo who I shall be driving competitively this year
for Pat Cooper
Taken with my iPhone

Day 3

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The Beacon at Gringley on the Hill. Rather a dull cloudy day and so I thought that it might

be nice to see what can be done using Photo Shop Mobile.

All the post production was made inside my iphone, neat!

Day 2

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Been rather busy today and so this is when i have only just found time.

Taken with my iPhone.

Day 1

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This is my Farrier busily at work on a cold windy day.

Taken with my iPhone.

Thoughts Behind 365 Project

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People will often say that their whole lives flashed before their eyes after they experienced a traumatic event. Perhaps it’s a bit morbid, but I think that sounds pretty incredible.

Taking a photo a day you will never imagined the project would not only serve as a way to remember a year, but also help you understand what was important to you in your life. Whether it is your relationships, your career, or fashion sense, recording a photo a day for a whole year will leave you with a rich visual history of your life. And it might make you a better photographer to boot!

Read on for my tutorial on how and why to create your own daily photographic history.

WHY DO IT?
Taking a photo a day is a big undertaking with big payoffs. Here are just a few reasons why you should consider doing it:
• 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.

TIPS ON HOW TO DO IT
Here are six tips on how to create your own Project 365:

1. Bring Your Camera Everywhere
Yes, everywhere. Get in the habit. Grocery stores, restaurants, parties, work, and school. Going to a movie theatre? Snap pics of the flick with your phone–there are photo-ops everywhere. If you have one of those tiny tiny cameras, you have no excuse not to have it in your pocket all the time. And if you don’t? Camera phones are a great substitute.

2. Make Posting Easy
You can install blog software like Movable Type or Wordpress on your own site and create an entry for each photo, but for true ease of use, try a photo sharing site. Flickr will let you post a week’s worth of photos in 2 minutes flat, and fotolog and Photoblog.com are geared toward a photo-a-day workflow. Making it fast and easy means you’re much more likely to do it.

3. Vary Your Themes
Try to capture the day’s events in a single photo. Perform photographic experiments. Take a photo of someone new you meet, something you ate for the first time, or something you just learned how to do. Take a photo of something that made you smile. And don’t forget to take a photo of yourself at least once a month so you can remember how you’ve changed, too.

4. Tell a Story
Use your blog entry, or your photo description, to explain what’s going on in each day’s photograph. How good did that dinner taste? What made you want to take a photo of that stranger? It’ll help you remember down the road, and it gives friends following along a better appreciation of why you took the photo you did. You don’t need to write a lot, just enough to add some colour.

5. Don’t Stop, No Matter What
This is perhaps the most important tip of all. You will get tired of taking a photo every single day. Some days, you will consider giving up. Don’t. The end result is worth the effort. Remind yourself why you wanted to do it in first place.
There will be times you’ll think there’s nothing interesting left to take a photo of and times you’ll think you didn’t do anything exciting enough to take a photo of. There’s always a great photo to be made.
Get out of the house and take a walk. Or stay inside and look around. Take a photo of something important to you. Take a photo of the inside of your house so you can see how your taste has changed over the years. Take a photo of anything, just don’t stop.

n.b. It helps if you’ve told your friends about the project and asked them to follow along. Their encouragement will keep you going!

6. Post early, post often
Plan on going through and posting your photos at least once a week so you don’t get backlogged and feel overwhelmed. Ideally, post every day or two. Again, spend the time up front to make sure it’s quick and easy to post. It’ll make all the difference.

365 Day Photo Project

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Thoughts Behind 365 Project