31 down...

...335 to go.

I take lots of photos, but I'm not a good photographer. I have a medium range Canon digital camera, which I don't really know how to work unless it's on the automatic mode. Should I be required to take photos of fireworks, or on ski slopes (one of which I have done), it has built in settings for those. It also has "Night" setting, which doesn't really work. I've tried to take photos of floodlit landmark buildings (Eiffel Tower, Houses of Parliament etc) which always look fantastic in those shots taken by professional people, but always look over/under exposed, or blurred, when I do it. The nearest I've got to success is this...



Which is Grand Central Station, reasonably in focus, looking warm and comforting in what was about -2°C. I like it. Some more knowledgeable people than me would say the composition was wrong or the aperture/focal length/otherphototographyterm was rubbish. I don't care. At least it's not wonky... A classic case of "very expensive camera" + "photography course" + "subscription to Digital Camera magazine" ≠ "good photo"... But don't worry, she's my friend. At least she was until she read this... ;-)

SO. I'm now one month into Project366 (Normally Project365, but it's a leap year), which is a flickr group taking one photo for every day of the year. January has gone and I've not missed one yet...



That's the trendy montage, all the photos are here...

I'm ignoring the themes in the project, which the rules say you can do, because I'm setting themes alternately with Chris, who I used to work with. Complicatedly (?), we have decided to change the theme every six days, because 366 divides neatly by 6, so 61 themes for the year.

What is much more interesting than I thought it would be is looking at a selection of photos taken on the day from hundreds of people around the world. It's a real snapshot of... well, the lives of a self-selecting, flickr-using, digital camera owning, possibly OCD-suffering group of people.



I'll let you know if I make it to December.