Yesterday was the day I have been "shooting" for ever since I had the idea to try Project 365 last January. While today is technically the year mark due to the leap year, I felt yesterday's milestone was worth being excited about. As I mentioned earlier in the week, I never actually thought I would make it to the end. As Lisa can attest, I am really good at starting projects and even getting them 80% complete (i.e. numerous DIY home projects), but actually finishing and seeing them to completion is something I struggle with. Fortunately for Lisa and the kids, my track record is somewhat better when it comes to completing projects that I am actually paid to perform (i.e. my day job).
With the project coming to an official end, I look back and feel a sense of accomplishment. To deliberately take at least one photo per day for a year was much tougher than I originally believed, especially when you are constantly trying to find something different and interesting each day. Fortunately, I have two kids that were able to help fill in those days where inspiration was difficult. To give you an idea of what it involved, here are some statistics I compiled this morning.
- Photos taken by Canon EOS 5D: 18,400
- Photos taken by mobile phone camera: 2500
- Total photos taken: 20,900
- Average photos taken per day: 57
- Most photos taken in one day: 415 (12/25/12)
- Average time taken to capture 365 photo each day: 15 minutes (wag)
- Average time taken to download, edit and upload 365 photo each day: 30 minutes (wag)
- Estimated time taken for project over entire year: 274 hours or 11.5 days
- Amount of photo files (i.e. .cr2, .psd, .tif, .jpg) stored: 26,200
- Size of photo files stored: 322 GB
- Farthest traveled for photo: 875 miles (Fort Worth, TX)
- Number of states photographed: 10 (AR, GA, FL, KY, NC, OH, SC, TN, TX, VA)
Part of my intent with this project was to generate traffic for my photography website. Here are a couple of statistics that illustrate the results.
- Project gallery views on my website: 50,300 (does not include Facebook stats)
- Different states represented by views on my website: 50
- Different countries represented by views on my website: 66
To summarize my experience, I have no regrets with the time I invested in this project over the course of the past year. I achieved several goals, which include increasing my technical knowledge of my camera and photography in general, expanding my creativity with photo subjects and framing of subjects, and becoming more versed in post processing. However, the best result of the project would be the documentation of the past year. I can look back through the photos and have a good idea what I was doing that particular day. This for no other reason will make it difficult to want to stop taking a photo each day.
So moving forward, I plan to continue my project with some subtle changes to help provide some more latitude to the process and to make it less cumbersome. For instance, on a day where I capture several shots that I like, I may choose to use some of those shots on other days that the inspiration or time isn't available. Another idea I want to explore is revisiting shots from years past that I either haven't had time to post process or would like to try something new that I have learned since creating the photo. So hopefully these new ideas will interject some new excitement into my work and provide additional interest for you to keep coming back. With that said, I hope you will continue to check out my work and I look forward to sharing my photography adventures with you well into the future.
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