Photo Project: January 1, 2009

[liz_marcs]

Idea shamelessly stolen from kurukami:

My strange project for 2009 is to take one picture a day of the exact same scene. Why? To track the day-to-day (and season-to-season) changes that occur over the period of a year.

I know there's going to be one or two breaks consisting of several days at a time in the next year due to personal travel. BUT, baring serious injury or illness, I'm going to try to upload a picture a day.

Then I figure at the end of every month, I'll put up a slideshow showing the change over time for that month. Then, at the end of the year, one big slideshow.

Wish me luck on this weird experiment!

Below is January 1, 2009.

Comments

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

That is a very cool idea. One of my favorite things in the short-lived New Amsterdam series was the idea that Johann Van Der Zee has been taking one picture of Times Square every year since the camera's been invented.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

It is. It's amazing that it never occurred to me.

And the Times Square project sounds pretty cool.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

The whole time-laspe effect at the end is always interesting.

It was a very neat use of the whole immortality thing. I think the series is on hulu.com, I'm going to have to watch it again.

[bigsciencybrain.livejournal.com]

Neat!

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

'Tis truly a neat idea. :-)

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Am assuming that is local and it doesn't look like Walden Pond or the Charles, and not Fresh Pond... Where is it?

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Actually, it is the Charles. It's the Lakes Region.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

I had this weird feeling it might be after all your kayaking posts, but I thought the water ended on the lower left side like a pond. *facepalm*

[spiralleds.livejournal.com]

Very cool idea.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Thank kurukami, actually.

[sunnyd-lite.livejournal.com]

Pretty. I look forward to seeing the future photos!

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Heee! Thanks. This is only a few blocks from where I live.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

What an excellent project. I look forward to seeing it develop. (Hmm - in the days before digital that would have been a terrible pun!)

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahahahaha!

Actually, it'll be interesting to see the changes over time.

[iko.livejournal.com]

Nifty idea! Looking forward to see the changing of the seasons.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I think it'll be interesting to see.

[4thdixiechick.livejournal.com]

lovely pic.

I've actually been meaning to do something like that for 3 years now, but have been to lazy/undisciplined to take a picture everyday! (Although, I did take a pic yesterday, so maybe I can play along, too...).

Happy New Year & good luck with the photo project

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I already know I won't be able to do the full 365 due to being out of town, or traveling. But, I figure I can get pretty close.

Good luck with the project.

[first-spike.livejournal.com]

Eirik Solheim did this in 2005 and again last year, and turned the result into a 40-second video. The result is pretty and haunting. (1 million hits on YouTube and counting...)

Re: Good luck with the project.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Awwww, that is nice to look at.

And suddenly my effort looks strangely poor as a result. :-(

Still going to do it, because I have to admit that I'm curious about what I'll see at the end of the year.

[merrymaia.livejournal.com]

What a fabulous idea!!

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Yup. It is a good idea. Which is why I stole it.

[willowgreen.livejournal.com]

That's such a great idea--I'm tempted to steal it.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Go ahead!

I stole myself from kurukami (who hasn't actually done it himself), but I figure...whee! What a neat idea!

[rileysaplank.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a really good idea for a year long project. Day by day you don't tend to notice the changes so it'll be interesting to see.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

*nod nod nod*

I'm curious about how it'll look at year's end.

[ngaio]

And that's a beautiful scene you've chosen. I'd do the same but there's nothing I see every day except the houses opposite.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

This is maybe a couple of blocks from where I live. Had I just taken the photo out my front window...there'd be trees, but a lot of houses, too.

[ngaio]

Because I live in a narrow valley I can't see much from here, definitely nothing that would photograph well, if I lived up the hill I'd get a lovely view of the mountains which would be great to do a daily photo of. Oh well. I'll just enjoy yours!

[cwwriter.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I'd been considering doing the same thing, I've been saying I would for a couple of years now. :)

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Cool idea. G'luck.