The Seattle Traveler

A few months ago, I read about Project 365 and became intrigued.

The concept is simple – take a photo a day.  The idea was started by Taylor McKnight who claims that it serves as not only a way to remember the year, but to help him understand what’s really important to him in life.

I decide to start my own personal Project 365 on January 1st of this year.  My goals were twofold.  First, I figured that it would serve as a visual history of my life, and second, I figured that it would help me to become a better photographer.

You can check out Taylor’s 2006 version of Project 365 at his flickr account, and learn a little bit about why he does this and what he hopes to learn here.  After reading his story, I decided to give it a go.

This is a big project for me, and while I always have my camera in my purse, it’s rare that I actually remember to take it out and take photos.  Part of it is simply because I don’t know what I’m doing, and the results are pretty frustrating.  Additionally, I don’t really have the “eye” for knowing what will make a good photo.  Project 365 relieves me of some of that responsibility (I have to do it everyday so I don’t have to look for the perfect setting), while burdening me with responsibility at the same time (I have to do it everyday).

Throughout the year I’ll be posting some of the photos here, and some at Flyaway Café.  I’ll try to set up the entire project on a personal blog soon, and post the information for those of you who are interested in following my progress.  If any of you are inspired to tackle Project 365 as well (or maybe you are already doing it), please let me know so I can follow your progress as well.

Today’s photo of the Space Needle is Day 1 of my Project 365.  It was taken shortly after midnight while watching the New Year’s fireworks. 

(Thanks, Jon, for helping me get the photo to look just right!)

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