My Life in Pictures

As Project 365 comes to end for 2007, I spent some time today checking out some links to help jump start me in 2008. I found some really neat sites.

The first spot I found was on Scrapjazz, a really neat scrapbooking site with tons of information on scrapbooking and photography. The article talks about how shooting your photos at an angle really changes things up.

The next article I found was also on Scrapjazz. I REALLY like the ideas I found here. The concept is to find an object in real life that represents a letter & spell out a word or find a letter for each letter of the alphabet. How cool would that be??? The article is called "Picture Your Words." If you take on this challenge & do the alphabet, you get 26 days done right there!

I found the next set of challenges at BetterPhoto.com where there is an intro to photography assignments that were really neat. The first assignment listed has your take at least 30 photos of one subject & gives a list of some potential subjects to make your focus. Add this to the one above that has your shooting the alphabet & now you're up to at least 56 days!!! I'm not sure how helpful the other assignments listed here may be, but I found them to be interesting enough to include the link.

This next site is an assignment for high school students. Once at the site simply titled Photography Assignments, click on the link at the bottom that says "Photography Assignments" oddly enough. There is a list of 10 photos to take underneath the form shown there. This assignment is based on the photography of Eliot Porter.

I then stumbled on a site that has a bit of a photography course built in to the ideas for photos. While some of the first lessons are a bit elementary (how to put batteries in to the camera & turn it on), it is a site designed for children. The later lessons (3 & up) have a bit more help built in. This is called A Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography and it is that. I liked that it discussed the Rule of Thirds which is a very helpful rule to know when you like taking photos.

I really like how this was titled Straight Photography Assignments - nice & simple. There are twelve ideas listed on this site. They are all done very well with photo examples & then a bit of text to help you understand exactly what is being done. I'll be using this one for sure.

This site is for a place where a camera group posts their assignments with photos. They allow anyone to look around. They have 59 different assignments posted. Plenty there that's for sure!

Lastly I found this at the AARP website (huh - didn't notice that one before! LOL). The article is called Fun with Digital Photography and six different ideas on there.

I hope that gets everyone thinking about how they want to work on their Project 365 for 2008. I know it's certainly helped me get excited about the project for the new year!