365 self portraits. Can I actually do it? Inspired by many others, I decided to give my creativity a kick in the pants with a Daily Photo project. With life happening too fast, quite often I lose the spark that drives me to pick up the camera. Hopefully I can maintain not only this project, but the ability to develop more as a photographer. Ideally, the majority of these will be self-portraits to help me get over my image complex and to document the most important, memorable moments of each day.
My rules:
1. At least part of myself in each shot. Every 24 hours.
2. EXIF data pulls rank. I travel and can't always upload on a timely matter, but the timestamp is as the timestamp does...
3. Try to document the dominant activity/event of the day. This is a journal-type project for me, too.
4. Having help is OK. While I always set up the shot myself, occasionally the location requires having someone else hit the shutter for me.
My current 365 Project gallery is here!
My rules:
1. At least part of myself in each shot. Every 24 hours.
2. EXIF data pulls rank. I travel and can't always upload on a timely matter, but the timestamp is as the timestamp does...
3. Try to document the dominant activity/event of the day. This is a journal-type project for me, too.
4. Having help is OK. While I always set up the shot myself, occasionally the location requires having someone else hit the shutter for me.
My current 365 Project gallery is here!
May 2, 2009
We had plans today to explore someplace out of the city, take a short day trip and explore more of the Bay Area. But as we were driving through the predominantly empty streets of the Haight in the late morning we get a text from our friend Moose: "Mint juleps and carousels at Golden Gate Park, 2 pm, rain be damned."
And so it was! I thought it was an odd combination until we met with him and a few of his friends and they explained their planning. This was the first annual soon-to-be-named derby celebration, Pixar-style (Moose and the group work across the bay at Pixar Studios), and given that none us are particularly keen on the Kentucky Derby, this was a heck of a lot more fun. The plan was to hit up three of the four carousels in San Francisco and go around in circles and seeing who wins. I guess we all won, and had a refreshing cocktail of mint-infused bourbon with a splash of simple syrup afterwards.
The Golden Gate Park carousel was pretty special, even though it wasn't the oldest one in the city. The music they play there.. was it salsa music? Wow!
So even though it rained, it was great. And it ended with Beard Papa and a sumptuous Indian dinner at Amber downtown. I couldn't get my arms far away from the horse to get a group shot, unfortunately. Maybe next year I'll plan better with a fisheye.
We had plans today to explore someplace out of the city, take a short day trip and explore more of the Bay Area. But as we were driving through the predominantly empty streets of the Haight in the late morning we get a text from our friend Moose: "Mint juleps and carousels at Golden Gate Park, 2 pm, rain be damned."
And so it was! I thought it was an odd combination until we met with him and a few of his friends and they explained their planning. This was the first annual soon-to-be-named derby celebration, Pixar-style (Moose and the group work across the bay at Pixar Studios), and given that none us are particularly keen on the Kentucky Derby, this was a heck of a lot more fun. The plan was to hit up three of the four carousels in San Francisco and go around in circles and seeing who wins. I guess we all won, and had a refreshing cocktail of mint-infused bourbon with a splash of simple syrup afterwards.
The Golden Gate Park carousel was pretty special, even though it wasn't the oldest one in the city. The music they play there.. was it salsa music? Wow!
So even though it rained, it was great. And it ended with Beard Papa and a sumptuous Indian dinner at Amber downtown. I couldn't get my arms far away from the horse to get a group shot, unfortunately. Maybe next year I'll plan better with a fisheye.
May 2, 2009
We had plans today to explore someplace out of the city, take a short day trip and explore more of the Bay Area. But as we were driving through the predominantly empty streets of the Haight in the late morning we get a text from our friend Moose: "Mint juleps and carousels at Golden Gate Park, 2 pm, rain be damned."
And so it was! I thought it was an odd combination until we met with him and a few of his friends and they explained their planning. This was the first annual soon-to-be-named derby celebration, Pixar-style (Moose and the group work across the bay at Pixar Studios), and given that none us are particularly keen on the Kentucky Derby, this was a heck of a lot more fun. The plan was to hit up three of the four carousels in San Francisco and go around in circles and seeing who wins. I guess we all won, and had a refreshing cocktail of mint-infused bourbon with a splash of simple syrup afterwards.
The Golden Gate Park carousel was pretty special, even though it wasn't the oldest one in the city. The music they play there.. was it salsa music? Wow!
So even though it rained, it was great. And it ended with Beard Papa and a sumptuous Indian dinner at Amber downtown. I couldn't get my arms far away from the horse to get a group shot, unfortunately. Maybe next year I'll plan better with a fisheye.
We had plans today to explore someplace out of the city, take a short day trip and explore more of the Bay Area. But as we were driving through the predominantly empty streets of the Haight in the late morning we get a text from our friend Moose: "Mint juleps and carousels at Golden Gate Park, 2 pm, rain be damned."
And so it was! I thought it was an odd combination until we met with him and a few of his friends and they explained their planning. This was the first annual soon-to-be-named derby celebration, Pixar-style (Moose and the group work across the bay at Pixar Studios), and given that none us are particularly keen on the Kentucky Derby, this was a heck of a lot more fun. The plan was to hit up three of the four carousels in San Francisco and go around in circles and seeing who wins. I guess we all won, and had a refreshing cocktail of mint-infused bourbon with a splash of simple syrup afterwards.
The Golden Gate Park carousel was pretty special, even though it wasn't the oldest one in the city. The music they play there.. was it salsa music? Wow!
So even though it rained, it was great. And it ended with Beard Papa and a sumptuous Indian dinner at Amber downtown. I couldn't get my arms far away from the horse to get a group shot, unfortunately. Maybe next year I'll plan better with a fisheye.
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