38 days in to the photo-a-day project, and we’re still going. The full photo-a-day set and the photo-a-day rejects can be found on flickr.
Here are some of my favorites from the set.
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It’s something that I try to strive for in my photography, but I imagine that I often fail. Too often modern architecture or fashion steal the focus of an image. The photo-a-day project does continue, even though I’ve not updated it recently. Let’s call it performance anxiety after my photos were featured on DCist a few weeks back. This photo was originally (or most recently) published on burst sausages There are a lot of great reasons to get into a corporate redesign. For as many of those as there are, there are just as many not to. An ill-conceived corporate redesign project will be costly in your time and money, and can often have a negative impact on your business. Or, to quote the old saw:
When it’s appropriate to embark on a company redesign, following the right process will take a good deal of time, a great deal of thought, and an even greater deal of work and stress before you’re done. If you prematurely redesign your site, and without the right process, it might be the last mistake you make in your job. Continue reading 8 Reasons Not to Redesign Your Company Website Today Christina and I went for a bit of a drive. First around the tidal basin, then to the southwest waterfront and from there out to Great Falls through Georgetown. As you’ve no doubt heard, it’s been cold in DC, like in most of the northern hemisphere. So, naturally, we went looking for ice.  He Shoots, He Scores! On Canal Road, out of Georgetown, we went drove by a car park that was mostly full. Interested to see what had drawn folks to this particular spot, we parked. Looking to the C&O canal nearby, the whole thing was frozen. We walked down the bank to the canal, and slowly walked out onto it, nervous as to whether it would hold our weight. As we made our way onto the ice, we saw a winter wonderland. Families out ice skating on the frozen canal, the snow shoveled aside, and a hockey game here and there.  Photo a Day #4 The photo today was a challenge. It got to be about 6pm before I even remembered that I needed to take one today. Luckily, I wasn’t completely spaced and did have the camera with me. Looking for a good while on my walk home, I ended up with this shot of K St NW at Connecticut Ave NW. I like the way that the lights work with the 4″ exposure, and I think that sometime soon I’ll have to give a try to getting a similar shot down Pennsylvania Ave. I know that it’s a kinda overdone shot, but I’d like to have one of my own! A tripod would have been nice to have with for this long exposure, but I was able to use a traffic lamp as a stand-in. I’m interested to see where this project ends up taking me this week, and into next weekend. Until tomorrow.  Frozen River For the third day of the photo project, I ended up with a photo of the partially frozen Severn River, in Sherwood Forest. To get this shot, I had to climb out onto the jetty in front of the house, in the bitter cold and wind. I’m not fully happy with most of the photos that I took today. I would have certainly taken more, but my fingers were about 30s from freezing and falling off when I did come inside. Well, that’s not completely true, they were already frozen, but hadn’t yet fallen off. There wasn’t much color in the late afternoon sun, so this ended up being another good candidate for a black & white photo. I do want to make sure that I don’t end up with nothing but B&W photos in the photoset. I generally enjoy black and white photos, but wish that there were an easier way to work in black & white on my Nikon D90. It would be useful if it had a feature whereby one could see shots in B&W, but still have them be recorded as full RAW format images. Not that that’s a complaint mind, just a nice to have. Today it’s back to the office and the start of the real challenges with keeping the photo project going.  All is Quiet Although it’s taken me a little while to get around to posting these, I did start taking them yesterday, as was planned. It’s been an interesting exercise so far, and one that I’ve seen a number of others do. I just hope that I can keep with it. The first image is of Eastern Market in Southeast DC (near the Eastern Market Metro – natch). I took it relatively early on the morning of New Years Day. Well, not relatively early in an absolute sense, but in a it’s early if everyone is hungover sense. I had to lay in the middle of the street in order to get it, but I really like the way that the brickwork comes out and how you can even see the random little specks of snow. It also wasn’t as quiet as it appears in the photo, there were people around, but a careful angle selection, a little bit of patience, and a little bit of luck made it happen. I think that it works. It’s not exactly worthy of the met, but, for a first day’s effort, it’s not too bad. With a new year, we trot out the most boring, and un-loved tradition of all, the resolution. Every year we make them, some we keep, others we break. Generally, we don’t write them down, so that we don’t feel too bad when we look back and see we didn’t keep them. For 2010, I’m going to break that. Each and every day of 2010, I’m going to do the following things:
Every month, I will attempt these things:
By the end of 2010, I will have achieved the following:
So, there you go. I’ll be sure to give periodic updates for any who care. I’m starting off 2010 as a true DC resident. After 4 years, and many attempts, I finally managed to register the M5 in the District. You might think that this isn’t too tough. You’d be wrong. But the point of this post isn’t to complain about the DC vehicle bureaucracy, it’s to celebrate being home. Home means that, even though I take metro or walk most everywhere I go, I can have my car here if I need it, and not in another state. Home means having the closet be well lit, and the downstairs warm without the upstairs roasting. Of course, there are the other aspects of “home-ness” that I’ve not yet fully achieved. There’s the part where you have somewhere you belong. Working on that, not quite there. But then, maybe no one ever feels like they belong. It’s been getting better, but still, not where we’d like to be, I don’t think. Not to let this turn into a meandering process, but more to just get things flowing after having been off writing for so long. Let’s get this running and see how it goes. You’ve decided that it’s time to start a blog. Great. Good for you. Congratulations. Now what? In this post I’m going to take you through all of the prerequisites to getting up and running with your own blog to start building your personal online portrait. Read on below the jump for the skinny on doing these setups, or you can just hire someone to do your blog setup if you’re lazy. Continue reading 2π Steps You Must Take When Setting Up Your Blog |
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