photo 365, happy birthday

July 16th, 2008

The first time I heard of the Photo365 project it reminded me only of my photoblog, and as I first had a slight misunderstanding of the project, I thought to myself that was something I tried to do – and failed. My original idea was that a photograph had to be posted online (flickr/blog) on the day it was taken. Turns out that’s not true. Which is why I have decided to give it a go.

But rather start on a random day of the year, or January the first, I have decided to start today – my 23rd birthday; the date I consider to be the most important in the calendar-year.

It will be tough as I don’t do exciting things everyday. But who does really? However, I have watched Andy successfully attempt this over the last 6 months and enjoyed the progress. With photos ranging from his girlfriend, books, plans, lists, me, gigs, himself, mac, iphone, friends, xbox, donuts etc.

And so begins a year of this. A photo every day. Many will be very boring, but I will do my best.

First photo is indeed from yesterday, my birthday. It was a quiet day, spent mostly watching family guy, until a few friends came round to my place in the evening. They had balloons and a banner, which they insisted on attempting to hang on the wall, (inside and out). We had burgers and beer; chilled out and music.
A good day. Here’s to 365 more!

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Happy birthday! A lot of great people were born this week (my bday was Saturday). I have wanted to try the 365 Project myself. One technical question: Does the photo have to be of the date in question? Or can you merely post a photo every day? I’ll be watching your project with interest.

23. Sheesh. I don’t even REMEMBER 23.

M.

Posted by mapgirl on 16 Jul 2008 at 7:09 pm   Reply to this comment

Oops, I went back and re-read the post and you already answered my question.

Now I have no excuse for trying it also.

m.

Posted by mapgirl on 16 Jul 2008 at 7:11 pm   Reply to this comment

Happy birthday Phil!

I looks like you do have to take a photo ever day, but it doesn’t say you have to post it that same day. There’s no way I could do that. It’s hard enough finding the time to process photos from my archive and post them every day.

It would be possible with unprocessed snapshots but as I work from home and have an aversion to posting family photos online I wouldn’t have much to post!

Posted by Donncha O Caoimh on 17 Jul 2008 at 11:52 am   Reply to this comment

@Mapgirl – Belated Happy Birthday to you!

@Donncha – It doesn’t have to be anything exciting and it isn’t always going to be anything especially artistic but its something fun (yeah it may not be fun that one day that i forget my camera or have no batteries etc). It will be a challenge.

Besides, they don’t have to be uploaded on the day so i will upload em once or twice a week.

Posted by Phil on 17 Jul 2008 at 11:57 am   Reply to this comment

It’s a whole lot of fun. Not all of them turn out great, but it’s a fun thing to do. Tomorrow is my 200th day, and it’s been tough going, but the stuff I’ve seen and done because of it is well worth it.

Posted by Zcott on 18 Jul 2008 at 1:01 am   Reply to this comment

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