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!
![_03/14/11_ Sphere
Happy Pi Day! In honor of this truly important day, I decided to take a photo of a ball, whose volume happens to be (4 π r^3)/3. It's a racquetball, if you want to figure it out. The ball is resting on a djembe (a drum) and I lit it from underneath while using a teensy bit of on-camera flash so the top of the ball didn't fade completely into the background. Here's the setup.
The djembe also made an appearance on 4/26/09.
[last year] what a hike...](http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year4/i-PVjgpFX/0/Ti/2011-03-14%20Sphere-Ti.jpg "_03/14/11_ Sphere
Happy Pi Day! In honor of this truly important day, I decided to take a photo of a ball, whose volume happens to be (4 π r^3)/3. It's a racquetball, if you want to figure it out. The ball is resting on a djembe (a drum) and I lit it from underneath while using a teensy bit of on-camera flash so the top of the ball didn't fade completely into the background. Here's the setup.
The djembe also made an appearance on 4/26/09.
[last year] what a hike...")
![_05/21/10_ Dancing Child
Gettin' down with da island riddum.
I have no idea why this guy was playing the steel drums in front of a health food store, but it makes for a much more positive photo than the dead raccoon I saw on my walk home.
Have a great weekend!
[last year]](http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year3/i-tTVc2Mc/2/Ti/2010-05-21%20Dancing%20Child-Ti.jpg "_05/21/10_ Dancing Child
Gettin' down with da island riddum.
I have no idea why this guy was playing the steel drums in front of a health food store, but it makes for a much more positive photo than the dead raccoon I saw on my walk home.
Have a great weekend!
[last year]")
![_03/08/10_ Drum Man
I didn't notice the figure painted on the drum until I started photographing it. Looks kind of like the Pearl Jam stick figure, no?
Anyways, this is a drum we have at our house - it's fun. I set my aperture to f/1.4 to get the super-shallow depth of field so the blue man was in focus and the rear drum was fuzzy. I used a black cloth for the background and bounced my flash off the ceiling. I did some pretty extreme editing in Lightroom, but I think it still looks pretty organic. The main adjustments were moving the blacks slider way up and the vibrance way down to counteract the contrast.
[last year]](http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year3/i-t65fjqW/2/Ti/2010-03-08%20Blue%20Painted%20Drum-Ti.jpg "_03/08/10_ Drum Man
I didn't notice the figure painted on the drum until I started photographing it. Looks kind of like the Pearl Jam stick figure, no?
Anyways, this is a drum we have at our house - it's fun. I set my aperture to f/1.4 to get the super-shallow depth of field so the blue man was in focus and the rear drum was fuzzy. I used a black cloth for the background and bounced my flash off the ceiling. I did some pretty extreme editing in Lightroom, but I think it still looks pretty organic. The main adjustments were moving the blacks slider way up and the vibrance way down to counteract the contrast.
[last year]")
![_04/26/09_ Djembe
Tonight I experimented with photographing my djembe, a type of African drum. Much like my recent cow horn photo, I wondered what it would look like if illuminated from the inside.
I tried a lot of angles and perspectives, but ended up positioning the camera straight above. This photo has actually been rotated 180 degrees - saving me from having to climb inside of my tripod legs to get my hand in there. I also had to prop the djembe up a few inches so my flash could peek out and be triggered remotely. I used a small amount of onboard flash to fill in the hand. The radial blur was not part of the original plan - since my camera was pointed straight down, the heavy 18-200mm lens started zooming in, courtesy of gravity. I played around and figured out how to use that to my advantage. In Lightroom, used split toning to get the greenish look and added a bit of clarity to get nice definition in the skin of the drum.
I really should have taken a photo of the setup... but it's too late now, sorry!
Also, I added a Catalina Island gallery, where we went 2 weekends ago. No captions yet, but I'll get to that.
[last year]](http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/i-Sm7GZqL/2/Ti/2009-04-26%20Djembe-Ti.jpg "_04/26/09_ Djembe
Tonight I experimented with photographing my djembe, a type of African drum. Much like my recent cow horn photo, I wondered what it would look like if illuminated from the inside.
I tried a lot of angles and perspectives, but ended up positioning the camera straight above. This photo has actually been rotated 180 degrees - saving me from having to climb inside of my tripod legs to get my hand in there. I also had to prop the djembe up a few inches so my flash could peek out and be triggered remotely. I used a small amount of onboard flash to fill in the hand. The radial blur was not part of the original plan - since my camera was pointed straight down, the heavy 18-200mm lens started zooming in, courtesy of gravity. I played around and figured out how to use that to my advantage. In Lightroom, used split toning to get the greenish look and added a bit of clarity to get nice definition in the skin of the drum.
I really should have taken a photo of the setup... but it's too late now, sorry!
Also, I added a Catalina Island gallery, where we went 2 weekends ago. No captions yet, but I'll get to that.
[last year]")
_05/21/10_ Dancing Child
Gettin' down with da island riddum.
I have no idea why this guy was playing the steel drums in front of a health food store, but it makes for a much more positive photo than the dead raccoon I saw on my walk home.
Have a great weekend!
[last year]
Gettin' down with da island riddum.
I have no idea why this guy was playing the steel drums in front of a health food store, but it makes for a much more positive photo than the dead raccoon I saw on my walk home.
Have a great weekend!
[last year]
_05/21/10_ Dancing Child
Gettin' down with da island riddum.
I have no idea why this guy was playing the steel drums in front of a health food store, but it makes for a much more positive photo than the dead raccoon I saw on my walk home.
Have a great weekend!
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Gettin' down with da island riddum.
I have no idea why this guy was playing the steel drums in front of a health food store, but it makes for a much more positive photo than the dead raccoon I saw on my walk home.
Have a great weekend!
[last year]](http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year3/i-tTVc2Mc/2/L/2010-05-21%20Dancing%20Child-L.jpg "_05/21/10_ Dancing Child
Gettin' down with da island riddum.
I have no idea why this guy was playing the steel drums in front of a health food store, but it makes for a much more positive photo than the dead raccoon I saw on my walk home.
Have a great weekend!
[last year]")
_05/21/10_ Dancing Child
Gettin' down with da island riddum.
I have no idea why this guy was playing the steel drums in front of a health food store, but it makes for a much more positive photo than the dead raccoon I saw on my walk home.
Have a great weekend!
[last year]
Gettin' down with da island riddum.
I have no idea why this guy was playing the steel drums in front of a health food store, but it makes for a much more positive photo than the dead raccoon I saw on my walk home.
Have a great weekend!
[last year]
See photo in original gallery.
All photographs © Jonathan Wilson