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DayPix ~ Equinox 2006

I realize that Watermark has been a bit heavy on photography lately, and light on words -- and now there are even more pictures.

Brainstorms, an online community I visit now and then, does an occasional project called DayPix, in which interested snapshotters are invited to record three days photographically. I did this over the new year holiday (here is that photoset) and participated again this past weekend, autumn equinox.

Now, this is not a photography challenge; the idea is not to showcase your best pictures, but to simply record the ordinary activities of our lives over the specified three days. Self-portraiture is encouraged, which is what you see, above.

Since I've been playing with some photo tools, I took the opportunity to use some of them, too. It has become clear to me that I'm committed to flickr; if a service isn't integrated with flickr, I'm unlikely to use it -- no matter how cool. But if the service will simply pull my photos from my flickr account, without requiring separate uploads, I'm apt to at least try it out.

So -- keeping in mind the caveat that these are not particularly the best of my photos -- if you'd like to see them, you can see the flickr photoset here; or you can see it jazzed up with flash at photofront (this may take some time to load.)

Or you can see them made into somewhat busy posters at tabblo (click the thumbnails):

           

The self-portait was made with Photoshop Elements and fd's flickr toys.

I'm exhausted.

Daypix 2006

As a member of Brainstorms, I participated in this year's Daypix, an annual event in which interested photographers are asked to record their day photographically, starting early the day before New Year Day, and ending late the day after.

The idea is to share a capsule look at the photographer's life for these few days.  It proved to be fun, inspiring, and a very nice way to get to know people one meets online. The response to my days was so good that I decided to post it on Flickr.

Actually, I didn't decide to post them to Flickr, I decided to post them to a TypePad photo album, under the mistaken impression that TypePad had figured out how to direct different photo albums to different weblogs. Which they have not, apparently, done.

So Flickr it is. If you click the map, it will take you to my set:  Daypix 2006. If you click the map photo in that box you can navigate the set by clicking the next photo in the set, complete with titles. Or you can watch it as a slideshow, with no narrative/ titles.

The narrative/title problem is why I would have preferred a photo album this time.

Or, you can skip it; these are not my best photos, but they are a snapshot of three- days- in- the- life .  .  .