Sunny bank holiday?!

So, I am still not quite ready to upload my Alnmouth holiday snaps just yet, due to not having an internet connection or not having the memory cards with me. I will have to come back to these at a different time. I am though, excited about sorting through them all and uploading them, as I feel that I have some good ones in amongst the thousands that I took.

I am still continuing with my 100 days photos. I did feel that I would lose motivation with this, now that there is no finish date (unless you count day 365), but there is so much to photograph out there. I still always have my phone with me and know that I can pick up my SLR and snap away with that at a moments notice. So days 119 - 121,  I went out to the countryside armed with my camera and this time was able to have more of confidence in what I felt would make a good photo. I was lucky to come across a Druid ceremony at a stone circle and read up on some history.

1 photo a day

I have decided to restart my Shuttercal project again.This is were I take a photograph everyday and then upload them to a calender style website. The last time I tried this project was back in November 2009 when I managed to get photos for everyday until February 2010.

I began my project again the other week and have so far managed to cheat once (I meant to take a photo one evening, completely forgot and took one the next month and published it as the night before), but since my one slip I have managed to keep things going.

I have been discussing this topic with an American friend of mine, who I discovered had also started her own calender project at the beginning of the year, she has managed to get through to March and then 'life got busy'. You definitely need dedication to see this project through for a year, most the time we walk around with some form of camera, either on our phones, or compact cameras or our SLRs, but the action of stopping to take a photo when life is hectic is the difficult part of it.

This project came up in conversation with Tom one evening as I took a photograph of a random plant. Currently I would like to document a year of my life in photographs, but Tom feels that it's ridiculous to upload really rubbish photos just because you had to take a photo that day (and the rubbish one is all that you have). He would like me to upload my 'good' photographs that I already have stored on my laptop, almost like a mini portfolio. One way round this I guess is to have two calenders on the go, one for 1 photo a day and the other to show off a little. Do I have 365 good photos?! Guess I will have to have a look and see.

http://shuttercal.com/calendar/lucieperry/2011/7/