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In January of 2009, I started something I had vowed I'd never do: I began publishing a blog. Why would I do such a thing? My email-buddy Pierre had launched a daily photographic newsletter called "PicOvZeDay" on November 3, 2008. His intention was to publish one or more daily photos of various topics; his only selection criterion was that any posted picture had to have been taken on that day (though not necessarily in the same year). I was greatly impressed with Pierre's courage: committing to publishing daily is not easy! Around the same time I discussed photography with several people, most of whom were of the opinion that it was no wonder that some of my photographs were not bad since I had excellent equipment. This argument has always annoyed me, first because it's like explaining a chef's good meal by the quality of his pots and pans, and second because many of the most famous photographers worked with equipment that was far less sophisticated than most of today's point and shoot cameras.
To make a long story short, in January of 2009 I decided to embark on a blogging experiment. The original idea was to publish 365 entries, a year's worth, at a rhythm of approximately four or five a week. Every post had to feature just one photo, invariably taken with the absolutely simplest camera I own, the one found in the first and second generation iPhone. In accordance with my intended publishing frequency, and to forestall any expectations as to the depth of the contributions, I subtitled the blog "An almost daily dose of lasting inconsequence..."
I began on January 25 and "preloaded" the blog with three older photos just so the page would not look so miserably empty. By early February, having skipped a few days here and there as planned, the challenge of posting daily began to sound not only feasible but downright appealing. On February 11, I decided to try not to skip any more days, and amazingly, I was able to stick to that. I closed down the blog on February 10, 2010. That day, I published entry number 380, and the 365th one without skipping a single day. For those wishing to explore the blog, it is still on-line on my alternate web site. I also had a book made of the whole thing, and a PDF version of it is available here. Finally, the grid of photos below provides access to the first entry of each month; from there, the "Next" and "Previous" links may be used to scroll through the entries:
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In the course of the blog's life, I presented 380 iPhone photos, linked to 102 additional ones, embedded 4 iPhone-recorded sounds, provided 212 additional links, either to non-iPhone photos or to other sites, and wrote over 50,000 words, easily the equivalent of a short novel. One of the things I learned is that the importance we assign to the various tasks we have to complete is totally arbitrary and bears little, if any, resemblance to reality. Let's face it, it's clear that publishing something to this blog was just about the most unimportant thing in the known universe. Not doing so would have had no consequences whatsoever. Yet, when I was short of time, or traveling between France and the United States, or undecided what to post, my stress level would increase dramatically to the point where few things mattered more than to post something, anything. Just having set this objective for myself (and not wanting to fail meeting it) made this daily task one of the most important things in the world for me. It's quite interesting, really.
Early on, I placed a counter on the blog in an attempt to check how many people bothered reading it. I must admit that this was not thought through well at all: I placed the counter on the main screen of the blog, the one that people who subscribed to the RSS feed never actually went to! Also, some people told me that they tended to go to the blog once every few days and read several entries in one session. In such cases, only one visit would be counted. It is not entirely clear to me how I could have avoided that short of placing a counter on every page and then adding things up manually. In any event, the counter reading is, in all likelihood, too low by a considerable margin.
In addition to the photo grid shown above, there are two additional ways to explore (or re-visit) the blog: one is to search the Archives, the other to consult the alphabetical list of entry names shown below. What remains is to reiterate what I wrote in the last blog entry on February 10: a heart-felt thank-you to all who have supported me throughout this project and who have offered their encouragement on the blog itself, by email, or in person. I probably won't blog for a while, but if I ever do again, you'll be the first to know!
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