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.

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First Aid Gold Reef City, Johannesburg Here's the spot where sick miners would go to get first aid. I guess a receding hairline counts.
Dynamite Gold Reef City, Johannesburg After a visit to the Apartheid Museum (no photos allowed there) we went across the street to Gold Reef City, which is an old gold mine that's been turned into an amusement park. We didn't really care about the amusement park part of it, but we really wanted to take a tour of a gold mine, given its significance to the city of Johannesburg. Basically, there would be no city if they hadn't discovered gold here. We also learned that 1/3 of the gold ever mined in the world has come from South Africa. Unbelievable. By the way, this is definitely not real dynamite, but the box was original.
_03/15/11_ Flash Bus Today I caught the Flash Bus Tour at the LA Convention Center. It's all about using off-camera small flash, taught by David Hobby (aka Strobist guy) and Joe McNally. If they're coming to your town, I highly recommend attending. They're both pretty much legends, and although they have dramatically different personalities and teaching styles, it was a pretty awesome class. I learned a ton, but to put it into practice I need to purchase a bunch of equipment. So... feel free to send me some money. I actually used my off-camera flash for this shot, although it didn't do a whole lot - the bus is quite large. I probably should have gotten on the ground to get a better angle, but I wasn't in the mood for laying on the ground. [last year]
Slave Cabin Laura Plantation Pretty awful to see - 2 families would share a cabin like this. No bed, no facilities... There used to be many rows of them closer to the sugar cane fields, away from the main house. They saved two of them and moved them closer for the tourists. The garden out front is something that the slaves would have had access to, since they were only fed breakfast and lunch. What I found really intriguing is that even after the Civil War, people continued to live in these cabins - up until the 1970s! They got electricity, but never plumbing. Even though slavery was abolished, many former slaves still worked on the plantations because there wasn't a lot of other work, and this was the cheapest housing available.
Sugar Kettle Reflection Oak Alley Plantation Until the 1940s, these massive kettles were used to process the sugar cane. They seem to be popular antique decorations now, used for water gardens, koi ponds, and reflecting pools.
Roots Oak Alley Plantation A fern and moss on the roots of one of the massive oaks.
Oak Alley, with Sun Oak Alley Plantation The sun peeked out a little for this shot. The current owners put the brick walkway in. A previous owner had cattle grazing here.
Oak Alley Oak Alley Plantation Here's the money shot. The alley of oaks extends all the way from the house to the road, about 1000 ft (300 m) away. No one knows who planted the oaks - they predate the house.
Oak Trees Oak Alley Plantation Row of nearly 200-year-old live oaks at Oak Alley. This shot was taken from the house, looking towards the Mississippi. Back in the day, you could have seen the river, but now the levees are too high.
First Aid
Gold Reef City, Johannesburg
Here's the spot where sick miners would go to get first aid. I guess a receding hairline counts.
First Aid Gold Reef City, Johannesburg Here's the spot where sick miners would go to get first aid. I guess a receding hairline counts." href="javascript:openLB(1503522345,'',XLarge,'',1024,685);">First Aid Gold Reef City, Johannesburg Here's the spot where sick miners would go to get first aid. I guess a receding hairline counts.
First Aid
Gold Reef City, Johannesburg
Here's the spot where sick miners would go to get first aid. I guess a receding hairline counts.
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