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)

Project365 - close to the finish line

Just a few photographs shy of 365. Although I have to admit I am cheating. Kind of.

Time wise, I should've finished a few days ago, but I did miss a few days throughout the year. I do remember a few I just didn't have time, a couple I couple I was sick and didn't get to it, and one or two I just forgot. But overall I think I did ok.

I'll write a full review once I hit 365 photographs in a few days. In the meantime this is today's shot. As always, taken with the iPhone ( I'm actually writing this post from the iPhone). Edited with Spica.

All photographs from my Project 365 are now CC

Out for a stroll, originally uploaded by gabrielponzanelli.

I just updated the license for all my photographs in the Project 365 set in Flickr to an Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) Creative Commons license. That means, anyone is free to use them for any non-commercial activity as long as they don't change them in any way and they link back.

Let's see what happens.

Bigger versions are in project365.gabrielponzanelli.com, a Posterous blog I created just for this project.

A (late) recap on the first quarter of my Project 365

 I started this project in mid September and I haven't posted much about it here. I decided it would be fun to take a photo a day with my iPhone and I've been doing it ever since. For some reason I started doing them in black & white and I just kept going, so it's looking like it'll consist entirely in black & white photographs.

I'm taking, editing, and uploading all from the iPhone, which makes it easy and a lot of fun. Although I have to admit some days it's been difficult, especially when I've been locked in the office all day, drive home at night, and by the time I have time to think it's already late. Some days I've just posted whatever is in front of me at the time, but others I've been able to get great shots.

Anyway, I just wanted to post this mostly to remind myself that I've been at it for over 3 months. It should be an interesting bunch of shots at the end of 1 year.

If you're interested, I'm posting the daily photographs here and they're also in a flickr set.

Project 365 - Day 1

Today I decided to start a Project 365. I started a new blog using Posterous where I'll be posting a daily photograph taken and edited in my iPhone. I don't know exactly why I decided to do it, as nothing really happened to make me think about it or anything. I wanted to check out Posterous and for some reason thought this would be a good idea for it. I set it up to automatically post to my Flickr photostream and my Twitter account.

I've read about this type of project from other sites in the past. I think the first was Photojojo a long time ago, it sounded interesting and I actually toyed with the idea of it for a while, but nothing really came of it. At the time I had a Sony Ericsson phone and it just wasn't as much fun as a camera. Now I love my iPhone and I'm a bit obsessed with using it for photography and have been posting my iPhone photographs regularly, so it's time to just go for it. Inspiration also came from Chase Jarvis, a commercial photographer that has a really interesting and inspirational blog and is an avid iPhone-photographer.

The photo above is day 1. Today. I was at work and just grabbed this magnetic thing and shot it quickly to get something up. Not really good, but if I'm posting a photo a day for a year it's pretty much a given that some will be crap, which is actually kind of liberating.

My Project 365 blog is here. We'll see where this goes.

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