As if everything else I do wasn’t enough of a challenge, this year I’ve decided to set myself an extra one: starting 1 January 2011, I am going to undertake the 365 Project photo challenge. I’ve been wanting to do this for a couple of months but decided to wait till the new year to make it a nice clean start.

Taking one photo every day for a year is a daunting proposition for me. I have next to no photography skills (though I can always spot other people’s mistakes!), and quite honestly, learning about apertures and f-stops and Lightroom and Photoshop fills me with something that’s not quite horror, but doesn’t feel good. But I want photography skills. I want to look at an awesome photo and think, I took that. I love looking at photos and am always amazed at the creative ways photographers look at the world. I want to see a world like that.

So, that’s my challenge. I’m blogging about it, I guess, to set out my reasons for doing it so that I have something to remind me why I’m doing it when it gets hard sometime around, oh, 16 January.

But it’ll be cool to look through the photos in a year and see what I did and be proud of my new mad skills.

So, if you’re interested in following my challenge, this is what you should know. 1. I won’t necessarily upload every day. I’ll do what I can but some days it won’t happen; but I will upload all the photos eventually. 2. Expect to see a lot of pictures of my cat, especially at the start of the challenge when I get to 10pm and realise I haven’t taken a photo that day. 3. Comments are welcome, nay, encouraged. It’s more fun that way.

I’ve set up a set on Flickr, if you care to see what I get up to this year

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