Project 48

Beyond  my professional passion of delivering software products, my personal passions include running, fishing and photography (not necessarily in that order!).   I've decided to kick off a year long project with one of my passions:  photography.  I plan on taking at least one picture a day during my 48th year here on earth.  People have done this before.  I haven't.  There are a number of groups on Flickr and such where people take a photo of themselves every day.  I won't be doing that, specifically.  I'm viewing this effort as a photo journal of sorts, of my 48th year, that will hopefully including a good portion of  nice photos in the mix.

My goals:

1. Learn more about my camera(s) and photography.
2. Use and learn all of my lenses.
3. Become better at photography.
4. Have fun and capture some great photos.

My rules:

1. I must personally take the photo.
2. I must take at least one photo each day, from April 17, 2011 up to and including April 16, 2012.
3. Any digital camera is allowed, including my iPhone, though I will give preference to my DSLR, currently a Nikon D80.  
4. Any settings on the camera are allowed.
5. Any subject matter is allowed. Some pictures will be boring (hopefully not many), and hopefully some will be interesting to great.

Equipment at the start of this project (yes, assumption is this will change over the year!):

Cameras:

• Nikon D80
• Nikon CoolPix S70 
• iPhone 4

 Lenses:

• Nikkor 18-200mm VR 3.5-5.6G
• Nikkor 50mm 1.8D
• Nikkor 18-55mm VR 3.5-5.6G

I'll post weekly entries here that will include the 7 photos of that week.  

Perhaps in some future year I'll fish every day of the year... I can't wait!

Self Portrait, Day 1, in Washington DC. 

Thanks for visiting,


John Piekos