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!

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2013-05-07 Invincible This was supposed to be a tribute photo, a memorial to a fallen appliance.  An appliance that, in all it's orange splendor, warmed and cooked my food for well over a decade. An appliance that blatantly stole it's bright color plastic styling from the very first iMac. An appliance that has kept working strong far longer than any other electronics I've owned, despite costing less than $100. An appliance that lived in a dorm room, followed by 6 other residences in 2 states. An appliance that predates my relationship with my wife. An appliance that has carried on and on as we've replaced nearly every college-era thing we own with an 'adult' version of it.  This is our microwave, and tonight it almost died when this spring came loose inside the case. Almost, because with  a handful of tools and a stroke of luck, I was able to retrieve the spring and repair it. Surely one day it will fail completely, my friends.  But today is not that day. [last year]
_06/15/12_ Orange Ladder Here's a construction scene I snapped on my bike ride home. It's part of the 405 widening project - it looks like they're just building a big wall at this section. I liked the single color, the texture, the vertical rods... all that stuff. I tend to like construction scenes, although I feel a little silly taking photos of them sometimes. I'm sure all the cars passing by were wondering what was so interesting about it. [last year]
_04/03/12_ Elevated Chicago Trip, Day +1 Day +1 is my way of saying that we were still in Chicago today but didn't' do anything except travel to the airport and fly home. The only photos I took were quick snapshots like this. This particular spot is where we caught the Orange Line to take us to Midway. We had a great time seeing sights, learning things, meeting up with friends and eating way too much food. I'm looking forward to sharing more photos so stay tuned! More Chicago photos! [last year]
_03/26/12_ Blood Orange This is one of several blood oranges I got from a friend at work! I wish I had my own fruit tree so I could give back, but it's hard to grow anything in our 3x8' concrete patio. Go figure. One day we'll live in a real house with a real yard. One day... Anyways, I set the orange on a cutting board with black foam board behind it, and set up my softbox on the off-camera flash. Since I got pretty close to the subject, I had to use a pretty small aperture to get it all in focus. [last year]
__02/16/12__ Dirty Orange Curve Here's another UCLA sculpture, but in a completely different spot from yesterday's. This one called Anthropomorphic Echoes by Miki Benoff in 1984 in honor of Max Benoff. Her husband? Basically, it's a pair of giant resin shapes that look quite a bit like ears. This is a shot from the backside while the sun was shining on them. It made them glow in a cool way, but also shows how dirty they are. Gotta wash behind the ears... [last year]
_11/21/11_ Dynamic Rhythms I took this while waiting for my lovely wife to pick me up from work. It's a sculpture by Fletcher Benton in 1976 called Dynamic Rhythms Orange (Phase III). It's pretty cool, and like many sculptures in the garden, hard to photograph. It's just hard to find an interesting angle without distracting background elements. In this case, the only part of the photo that isn't the sculpture is the grass behind it. I admit I added some contrast and saturation, but I do like how the reflected colors turned out - blue on the right from the sky and green on the left from the grass. Don't miss the rest of the photos from Saturday's Great Los Angeles Walk! [last year]
_10/10/11_ Traffic Cone This barcode-like, seizure-inducing excuse for carpet is what I get to look at every day. If you 'unfocus' your eyes, you can see an image of the Bruin bear*. I didn't want to take a photo of the carpet by itself though, so I threw this orange traffic cone into the mix. Why is there a traffic cone in our office? There are many random questions like that around the office which I do not know the answers to, but what I do know is that this carpet is off the hizzle. Please also check out more Las Vegas photos. It's just a handful, so don't get too excited. *No, not really. [last year]
_10/01/11_ Orange Glow My wife had her own thing tonight, so I decided to pack myself a dinner and ride my bike down to Palisades Park to watch the sun set. It was pretty fun, there was a wedding party taking group shots and two guys playing bocce. As sunset turned to dusk, I noticed how cool this tree looked with the orange incandescent glow against the blue night sky. I had to wait a while so that the light from the lamp was a little brighter than the ambient light so the exposure would be balanced. This 30-second exposure was taken about 40 minutes after sunset. Also - Africa, Part 3: Joburg photos are posted! Captions are almost done. [last year] I just ate one of these yesterday...
_05/25/11_ Reject Button How great is this? While cleaning out some old computer stuff, my coworker came across this awesome 4x8" remote control for a laser disc player. I'm not entirely sure it's a remote, it might just be a control because there's a place to plug a cable in. I'm curious though - did all remotes used to say 'reject' instead of 'eject'? They have very similar meanings... weird. [last year]
2013-05-07 Invincible
This was supposed to be a tribute photo, a memorial to a fallen appliance. 
An appliance that, in all it's orange splendor, warmed and cooked my food for well over a decade. An appliance that blatantly stole it's bright color plastic styling from the very first iMac. An appliance that has kept working strong far longer than any other electronics I've owned, despite costing less than $100. An appliance that lived in a dorm room, followed by 6 other residences in 2 states. An appliance that predates my relationship with my wife. An appliance that has carried on and on as we've replaced nearly every college-era thing we own with an 'adult' version of it. 
This is our microwave, and tonight it almost died when this spring came loose inside the case. Almost, because with  a handful of tools and a stroke of luck, I was able to retrieve the spring and repair it. Surely one day it will fail completely, my friends. 
But today is not that day.

[last year]
2013-05-07 Invincible This was supposed to be a tribute photo, a memorial to a fallen appliance.  An appliance that, in all it's orange splendor, warmed and cooked my food for well over a decade. An appliance that blatantly stole it's bright color plastic styling from the very first iMac. An appliance that has kept working strong far longer than any other electronics I've owned, despite costing less than $100. An appliance that lived in a dorm room, followed by 6 other residences in 2 states. An appliance that predates my relationship with my wife. An appliance that has carried on and on as we've replaced nearly every college-era thing we own with an 'adult' version of it.  This is our microwave, and tonight it almost died when this spring came loose inside the case. Almost, because with  a handful of tools and a stroke of luck, I was able to retrieve the spring and repair it. Surely one day it will fail completely, my friends.  But today is not that day. [last year]" href="javascript:openLB(2500197154,'',XLarge,'',1024,684);">2013-05-07 Invincible This was supposed to be a tribute photo, a memorial to a fallen appliance.  An appliance that, in all it's orange splendor, warmed and cooked my food for well over a decade. An appliance that blatantly stole it's bright color plastic styling from the very first iMac. An appliance that has kept working strong far longer than any other electronics I've owned, despite costing less than $100. An appliance that lived in a dorm room, followed by 6 other residences in 2 states. An appliance that predates my relationship with my wife. An appliance that has carried on and on as we've replaced nearly every college-era thing we own with an 'adult' version of it.  This is our microwave, and tonight it almost died when this spring came loose inside the case. Almost, because with  a handful of tools and a stroke of luck, I was able to retrieve the spring and repair it. Surely one day it will fail completely, my friends.  But today is not that day. [last year]
2013-05-07 Invincible
This was supposed to be a tribute photo, a memorial to a fallen appliance. 
An appliance that, in all it's orange splendor, warmed and cooked my food for well over a decade. An appliance that blatantly stole it's bright color plastic styling from the very first iMac. An appliance that has kept working strong far longer than any other electronics I've owned, despite costing less than $100. An appliance that lived in a dorm room, followed by 6 other residences in 2 states. An appliance that predates my relationship with my wife. An appliance that has carried on and on as we've replaced nearly every college-era thing we own with an 'adult' version of it. 
This is our microwave, and tonight it almost died when this spring came loose inside the case. Almost, because with  a handful of tools and a stroke of luck, I was able to retrieve the spring and repair it. Surely one day it will fail completely, my friends. 
But today is not that day.

[last year]
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