mageuziのtabi

Well, it’s over.

All in all, that was a fun experiment. I think if I were to redo it, I would be less strict with the “one photo a day” rule. When you start out, there are a lot of interesting subjects — but about halfway through you start to realize that having a 9-5 desk job isn’t the most conducive environment for creative photography. There are more than a few cases throughout the year where I had to take two or three photos from one day, and spread them out over multiple days.

Having said that, though, it made me more aware of my camera. Things I probably wouldn’t have bothered photographing before suddenly became very important. Above all, that spirit is what I want to take from this project into the future.

A lot of the pictures I took over the year weren’t that special, but there are some I’m particularly fond of. For example, around the same time each month, I took a picture looking out at the same spot from my apartment’s balcony, to show the progression of seasons.

In addition to those, there are some specific photos that I think turned out well. I think I will close out this post, and this project, with that list:

1/1/2009 1/26/2009 1/29/2009
3/20/2009
4/6/2009 4/20/2009
5/2/2009
6/24/2009
7/31/2009
8/22/2009
9/18/2009
11/26/2009
12/5/2009 12/6/2009 12/14/2009 12/25/2009

Finally got all of April’s pictures uploaded.

This month spring arrived, much to the chagrin of my nose. Lots of flowers, trees bursting with leaves and beer. Er, well, I guess that doesn’t have much to do with spring, but there was a lot of beer & food this month too.

And of course, April 30 saw the release of the Windows 7 Release Candidate. It looks great, but my video card and/or drivers seem to cause some minor Aero hesitation when closing windows. Very annoying, so I’m still trying to decide whether I want to start using it full time or not. Hopefully a future driver update will resolve it. Other than that, I really love the look of the OS!

Is it really April already? Wow. Well, the complete month of pictures for March 2009 is up. This is where my car passes 100,000 miles. Then I say good bye to it. Then I say hello to a new one. And some other stuff happened. It was a busy month!

Again, to my old car: thank you for all your faithful years of service. I wanted to retire you while I could keep happy memories of you, and not see you dead on the side of the road.

Just a quick post for those who are interested: all photos are up for February 2009. Deer in the dark, a face in the clouds, and the end credits of GTA IV are some of the highlights. Thanks for looking!