Welcome to the One/Day Project

Here you will find hundreds of photos that I've taken every day since 2/29/2008. I reached my initial goal of making it to leap day 2012 (after 1462 photos), but I'm still going - the new goal is to make it to Monday, 2/29/2016.

Every photo in these galleries is a unique creation from that day. My intent is to create art, and I've taken great care to create most of these photographs. In addition to not uploading simple snapshots, I try incredibly hard not to repeat myself.

Please enjoy, and feel free to comment. Like the shot? Give it a thumbs up. Really like it? Buy a print or digital download.

Thanks for looking!

Favorite photos collected from One/Day Project, Year 3, for display on corresponding blog post.

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_03/09/10_ Pre Pesto
A tasty food shot for you today. This one is going on iStockphoto for sure.
Tonight I made homemade pesto without a food processor. I won't be doing that again for a long time... It turned out great but it was just too much work for too little return. Here you can see all the raw ingredients before they got chopped up.
Check out my needlessly complicated setup photo!

[last year]

_05/12/10_ Tulip
Got this close up of a tulip using the morning light coming in through the window. It caught my eye a couple days ago as we ate breakfast, but I finally grabbed the camera today. I positioned our curtain behind it so the background would be black.

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_05/22/10_ Wet Vision
I had a great afternoon in Culver City today with some friends. I took many photos, and so many of them turned out well, I posted them here!
This was the last photo I took, just as the sun was going down. Someone had left these glasses in the fountain that's between the hotel and movie theater. If you've been there, you probably know what I'm talking about - there's a giant dancing lion statue in the middle of it - kids love it. Be sure to check the other photos, especially the one of the whisks (it was the runner-up).

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_06/04/10_ Whisk
Whisk go wheee! Much like 5/4/10 and 5/3/10, this photo involved hanging something on a string, twisting it up, and letting it go. Today it was a whisk! This shot represents about three swings back and forth.
Did some editing in LR, including adding a bluish tone that I like. I chose this photo out of about 60 because it had a good balance and interesting lines.
See the setup!
Also, turns out it's this guy's birthday today!

[last year]

_06/07/10_ iPad Portrait
My work got an iPad, and I'm putting it through it's paces. This photo took forever to get framed right. I think it turned out well in B&W.
Any of you have an iPad? What do you do with it?

[last year]

_07/04/10_ Trestle
Happy 4th of July! My wife and I are on a weekend vacation to Ventura, CA. This train trestle was right behind our hotel, and I thought it would make a cool subject. In addition to playing on the train tracks, we swam in the ocean, walked and played frisbee on the beach, checked out the street fair on Main street, and walked along the Ventura river and past Surfers Point. Sadly we did not watch any fireworks, but only because there weren't any around.
Ventura is a really cool place! I highly recommend visiting.

more Ventura pics

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_07/24/10_ Rusty at the Beach
This is Rusty. Don't ask me how I know his name. He was at the Santa Monica pier today, along with a herd of photographers for the World Wide Photo Walk that included myself.
For the rest of my keepers, check out this gallery. Like one of them better than Rusty here? Leave a comment :)

[last year] also at the beach...

_09/12/10_ Tentacles
Macro shot of sea anemone tentacles, taken during photographer's night at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.
It was a lot of fun! Hours flew by as I walked around, free to shoot whatever I wanted with [almost] no one in the way! Indoor shots were tough - I barely used my tripod or flash, and one of the biggest things I learned was that you have to shoot STRAIGHT through the glass, as in perpendicular. Otherwise you get pretty bad distortion because the glass (it's actually acrylic) is so thick. All of my indoor shots used a fairly high ISO and most of them are throw-aways.
This shot was taken in an outdoor touch pool, where I was able to set up my flash and practically get in the water to take macro shots. My best shots, at least technically, are from the tide pool and I will certainly share them all after I sort through them.
The biggest surprise of the night was a Nikon-based lighting workshop by Paul Van Allen - a big name in Nikon training. He and his team set up 6 stations that used off-camera flash in different ways, and went to each station and took a bunch of photos - very educational.

More photos - Aquarium of the Pacific Gallery

[last year] not very photo-like...

_09/20/10_ Coral Tree Traffic
This is San Vicente Boulevard in Santa Monica - a beautiful wide road and median lined with cool-looking coral trees. I came here to take photographic advantage of the thick fog that rolled in tonight.
Traffic was light, so I used a 30 second exposure to capture as many cars as I could. I used my Gorillapod on a drinking fountain to hold the camera steady.

In other news, I posted photos from the Aquarium of the Pacific's Photographers Night that I attended on 9/12/10.

[last year]

_03/09/10_ Pre Pesto
A tasty food shot for you today. This one is going on iStockphoto for sure.
Tonight I made homemade pesto without a food processor. I won't be doing that again for a long time... It turned out great but it was just too much work for too little return. Here you can see all the raw ingredients before they got chopped up.
Check out my needlessly complicated setup photo!

[last year]

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