Cynergist

Happy New Year - Project 365

I hope everyone had a very good Christmas and enjoyed their New Years celebrations.

Its now that time on the calendar when it is traditional to sit down and make a resolution for the year ahead.

I have two that I'm hoping to keep this time:

1) Get More Exercise

I received an email yesterday saying that the bicycle I had ordered through the cycle to work scheme was now available for collection. So I'll be going to fetch it on Saturday morning.

I had hoped that not having a car and walking a lot more would help my fitness levels, but it doesn't seem to have had an effect, so perhaps travelling further on a bicycle will help.

2) Take and Publish More Photographs

I do take a lot of photographs. Looking at the number of files on my hard drive, it appears I took 85,000 photographs during the last 5 years.

However I take these in bursts. Sometimes several weeks can go by without me using the camera.

It also takes me an age to actually go back through the photographs and actually do anything with them.

I also find myself taking the same types of shots over and over.

I've therefore decided to try completing a Project 365 starting from 1st January 2010 and finishing on 31st December 2010.

Over the course of the year I will attempt to take a photograph every day, and then upload it to its own blog.

Wish me luck. With these two resolutions I'm a bit concerned I may have bitten off more than I can actually achieve.

Her Morning Elegence

I was hunting the web for help on an idea I had for stop motion photography and came across the following video clip.

Do you ever wake in the morning feeling even more tired than you went to bed, and the pillows and duvet are on the floor? I know I do, and this video explains why.

Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

Perhaps this is old news, but I love both the music and the complex simplicity of the video.

Absence

I'm afraid I haven't been keeping this blog up to date very well this year.

I've signed up for an Open University course for digital photography. I will be creating a website to record my experience of the course. But due to the amount of time the course is taking, I probably won't do it until the course comes to an end.

I have also created a site where you can see some of my favourite photographs:

http://www.kevinpack.co.uk

Photos added to album

Back in the distant past of the internet I used to have a personal web site. You can probably still find remnants of it by using the wayback machine at the Internet Archive. It only contained a few details about myself and linked through to some of the websites I have worked on.

A few years later I started a Livejournal. But this was more to enable me to easily compile and read friends journal entries, than for me to post my own journal.

My main hobby is photography, and I decided that I would quite like to share my photos with friends and family, so earlier this year I looked around for the best method to deliver what I was looking for. Eventually I settled on using this blog.