Jon’s Diary

On January 1st 2010 I started a new project, Snap365.

The idea of Snap365 is simple. Take a photograph every day for a year. The only rule I’ve given myself is that the photo for each day must be taken on that day. No taking 7 pictures on a Sunday and chilling out for a week.
I will try to upload the pictures the same day I take them, but this may not always be possible.

The inspiration for Snap365 came from my desire to buy a new lens. For a long time I’d wanted to buy Nikon’s 18-200mm lens with built-in vibration reduction. The lens costs approx. £580 so it’s not a purchase to be taken without consideration. I had put off buying it for about a year or more due to the cost, but by the end of 2009 I finally had the money available. Once again I considered buying it, but then realised that for over 6 months I hadn’t taken a single photo with my SLR. The last photos I’d taken were in May when I bought my Exige.

I decided that there was no way I could justify spending £580 on a lens for a camera that I didn’t use. Infact there was no justification for me having the camera at all if I didn’t use it. So, in a “use it or lose it” moment, I came up with the idea for Snap365. Since starting the project and telling people about it a lot have replied with “Ooh, my friend XXX did that last year”, or “My friend XXX is doing that too”, or even “Did you see/read XXX? They recommended doing that this year”.
No, I didn’t read/see/hear about this from anybody else, and I don’t really care about anybody elses projects. This is something I’m doing for myself more than anything else, as an effort to get back into photography.

The website is more of a motivational “you better take your picture, people might be watching” rather than a “look at my photos” thing. A year is a long time, and I’m a lazy person. I need to feel that people are watching to motivate me to do this on a daily basis.

So here we are on day 16. So far so good. It’s a Saturday, and I have a day of work ahead of me including a wonderful tax return. To top things off, the weather outside is miserable. Once again, I have absolutely no idea what to take a photo of today!

Wish me luck!

Yesterday I had the pleasure of a track day at Silverstone with Lotus-on-Track. We did the International circuit as the GP circuit was closed after the fatal plane crash on it last weekend, but in the end this turned out to be a more enjoyable track as it is more suited to the Exige.

Some pictures from the day:

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Why? Good question. Because I was bored? Because I could?

Sometimes there’s just no reason!

jonpascoe.co.uk has moved to a new server!

This is mainly due to unreliable hardware in the old server, but on the plus side it has given me the opportunity to upgrade all of the systems on my server. One benefit of that is mysql5 … Allowing me to upgrade wordpress … Which in turn allows me to use the wordpress iPhone app to post updates from my phone.

In other news … Vicky and I have bought a marine fish tank!
Attached are some photos of the progression to date.