Archive for January, 2010
Snap365
by Jon on Jan.16, 2010, under General, Photography
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!
