photo a day–the end

Happy New Year – may 2011 be all that you want it to be.

I decided that the final photo in my photo a day 2010 book would be of me with my camera.  Only slight technical problem was that I do not have a full mirror unpacked yet – so I took my camera with me when I did  the supermarket shop and went into the clothes section and used one of the mirrors there – just another strange situation during the journey.

I’ve enjoyed the project but will not be doing it in 2011. I like variety and am not good at repeating projects.

I remembered to take a photo every day, mostly because I carried my camera with me all of the time, in my bag, in my pocket.  I suspect that having a point and click is an advantage in this respect.  During the year I took over 4 000 photos. There were 5 or 6 days when I was searching for inspiratation in the evening and ended up with ‘around the house’ shots.

I didn’t have any plan for the subject matter for the photos.  Doing a rough count up of categories: food was the most common on 37, followed closely by indications of the weather on 35.  There are 10 self-portraits and 11 in airports or airplanes which is a fair representation of the amount of flying I have done this year.

I will be having them all printed as a photobook.

In 2011 I’m going to do a monthly photo summary instead.  I’m planning on 4 pages for each month and may include some of my digiart from that month.  I also like the idea of choosing a few categories which I photograph each month and then create a page of the 12 at the end of the year, like Stacey did.