Today is August 22nd, 366 days after August 23rd, 2007, when I made a promise to take a picture every day for a year. I was later unsuccessful in fulfilling that promise, and I was unable to finish the project.
Day 1: Introductions
The promise I made, introduced here, was to take a daily picture for a year. I did well, making it over halfway through to day 202, but then a myriad of circumstances culminated into my missing a day. A broken camera, a long period of not posting the photos and not getting feedback, a crazy work schedule, a bout of insomnia and then boom: I missed one day. And I couldn’t go on. I’d rather fail than have an incomplete finish. So I stopped, at day 202.
Breaking - Day 15
A Boy and His Camera - Day 64
Despite not finishing, the project was eye opening and life changing for me. It allowed me to be creative, and I learned so much about myself and photography. This post contains many pictures of myself that I took during the project.
Movement - Day 116
But despite all the benefits of the project, that fact that it was incomplete is saddening to me, so tomorrow will be day 1 again. A totally insignificant date, August 23rd, will mark the beginning of my project yet again.
Here we go.
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