Project 365 complete!

I did it.

Admittedly, I did cheat. But just a bit. It took me a bit over 365 days as there were a few I missed (I think around 8 days), but still. It feels great.

Over a year ago I decided to give this a-photo-a-day thing a shot. I was taking a lot of photographs with my iPhone and was loving the simplicity of it all. The apps are amazing. Well, some of them at least. I even reviewed a few back then, did a 3G vs 3Gs camera comparison, and created a new gallery specifically for photos created with the iPhone here on my site.

When I started the project, I wanted to give myself a few limitations to keep me focused. For this year's Project365, all photos had to be:

• taken with the iPhone
  
• edited in the iPhone using a variety of apps
  
• all in black & white
  
• uploaded directly from the iphone
  

To keep it simple, I created a new blog in Posterous for the project. The cool thing about this is that I could just email the photos to my Posterous blog straight from the iPhone and they'd automatically end up everywhere:

• In the project's blog
  
• In Facebook
  
• In Flickr
  
• In Twitter
  

So what do I think now that I've finished?

It's been a great experience. It's really cool having a visual record for every single day of your life for a full year. Some photos turned out really good. A lot are really lame taken while I was rushing from one meeting to the next, or at the end of the day with crappy light. One is just a black square! I took that one when I was already in bed. I remembered I hadn't taken the daily photo so I just grabbed the iPhone, chose the built-in Camera app, and took a photo. It was pitch dark. But it still counts.

All of the photographs are in the video above in the order they were taken. It's really a slideshow created in Aperture and exported as a movie file.

After I exported, I realised it needed music so I added (with permission) a track from Coto Normal called Negative. I recently discovered them and I'm a fan. Their music is amazing. A huge thank you to Coto Normal, the music made the video great.

You can find more about Coto Normal here:

• Coto Normal in YouTube (and listen to some tracks)
  
• Coto Normal in MySpace
• Coto Normal in iTunes (buys some tracks, you'll enjoy them)

Comments

[David]

Good job mate, I love the concept. Music is pretty cool, never heard of them but I'm checking them out next.

[Miguel]

Tackling a project like this is always a challenge, it takes commitment. Congratulations on finishing it it's a great result but is that it or are you doing it again?

[Gabriel]

@Miguel I will do another one definitely. It really is worth it and once you get used to taking a photo every day no matter what it becomes easy. I think the key is to accept that some will be crap from an aesthetic/artistic point of view. But that's OK. It's the whole that matters.

[Paul Zohos]

Hauntingly beautiful