2013 Photo Project - Week #1

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<p><strong><em><br /></em></strong>This is the weekly thread for <strong>the 2013 Photo Project</strong>. The task is to take one photo per week for every week in 2013 and to submit the photo in this thread. Everyone is free to join the project. You can use any camera type and brand. The photo you submit each week must be shot within the week, starting Monday and ending Sunday. Please specify which camera and lens you were using and the image exif data (if available). It is preferred that you upload your contribution within the same week that the photo was shot, but there will be no deadlines.</p>

<p><strong><em>Important:</em></strong> please keep your image under 700 pixels on the longest side for in-line viewing, and <em><strong>please keep the file size under 300kb</strong></em>. Note that <strong>this includes photos hosted off-site</strong> (at Flickr, Photobucket, your own site, etc).</p>

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<p>Tuesday 1st is kick off day for <strong>the 2013 Photo Project</strong><strong>.</strong> This is the first weekly thread for <strong>the 2013 Photo Project</strong>. I hope many of you would like to join me in the project. Hopefully the project will be an incentive to make great photos and to learn new, photo related things in the year to come. <strong>The 2013 Photo Project</strong> is hereby declared opened.<br /><br /> I wish you all a Happy and Creative New Year!</p>

<p>So, how different is this from a WNW/POTW thread?</p>

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<p>It is Ann's</p>

<p>My Grand-Daughter Siera.</p><div></div>

<p>Hi all! We are having a beautiful day here on January 1st, 2013. It snowed last night, so this morning the snow removal crews were out working. The snow from the snow blower is backlit by the golden morning sun.</p><div></div>

<p>Millennium Bridge heading to St Pauls London.</p>

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<p>What a great shot, Simon!</p>

<p>Migration Rest Stop</p><div></div>

<p>Ann - I do not understand.</p>

<p>There are many well-established weekly photo threads within this site that will/would benefit from input from yourself and the others posting here (and in doing so you would meet the objective of your 'project' anyway). Furthermore as those threads get good participation, you will be likely to see a wide range of works from which you can learn and gain inspiration.</p>

<p>So why this urge to commence a new one which is almost totally redundant?</p>

<p>I'll take up the challenge, Ann. What I see different about this is potentially a photographic journey through a year, and that sounds somewhat interesting. This is a photo from near our new home, as of December. This is of Vancouver Harbor, early on an unusually sunny December morning.</p><div></div>

<p>BM: One of Ann's goals, expressed in some previous discussions over the past few months, is a regular photo thread that also facilitates discussion to share techniques.</p>

<p>Generally speaking the existing paradigm for photo.net NW/W type threads has been typified by little or no discussion other than some complimentary comments. The No Words Forum, of course, is just that - a non-verbal conversation conducted exclusively through shared photos that, in and of themselves, eliminate any need or desire for verbal discussion.</p>

<p>Another variation was tried several years ago in the "Picture This" group I mentioned in a parallel discussion to this thread: <a href="00bBJZ">A 2013 weekly photo project</a>. That group operated within the context of photo.net's existing critique format. </p>

<p>However "Picture This" was a closed, invitation only group and not quite as open and inviting as photo.net's discussion forums. Over the years, as computers and internet connections have speeded up, the member-initiated photo show and tell threads have generally worked well.</p>

<p>Ann proposed this type of photo show and tell in the site help forum awhile ago and the consensus was to give it a try.</p>

<p>Show and tell...</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks Lex, and to you, Ann and everyone, happy new year!</p>

<p>BM, this project is different because we have a goal to make and upload a weekly photo during a whole year. In the other threads you can post photos shot before that week, and they require certain camera brands or that you are doing street photography. I wanted to commit myself to make one photo per week to get more active with my hobby and to get more out and about. Likeminded are free to join me. I think it is nice to have a common goal like that.</p>

<p>Lex, I didn't have that discussion in mind when I started this project :-)</p>

<p>this morning looking out my back window</p><div></div>

<p>Come on, Lex and Ann...How exactly will listing some setting data/exif facilitate discussions and sharing of techniques? There is *still* no discussion. The only comment thus far s Ann's complimentary "What a great shot, Simon!" She herself didn't didn't say much except that it's great, no critique or explanation whatsoever. It's exactly like a POTW, but Ann's. </p>

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<p>Was that naturally lit, Leslie? If not, how did you go about getting that soft light look? With the bright background I'd assume you'd have a problem with under-exposure on the subject's face.</p>

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<p>How exactly will listing some setting data/exif facilitate discussions and sharing of techniques?</p>

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<p>Leslie, this thread is about a 52 week photo project. You can discuss anything you like with any photo. But you have to do it yourself. The main thing is the making and sharing of photos. There where no other forums that fitted this thread, if that is your point. </p>

<p>In defence of Ann's idea also this is a thread where people using all types of cameras can post pictures, I'm a Nikon guy but I still look at the Canon Thursday, I see this more like a social club for all of us, could be interesting, stop talking and post pictures who cares!</p>

<p>HTC One X and processed via Snapseed<br>

<img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-m4iDjWQQRr4/UOOuCxcWopI/AAAAAAAALCk/Nt9QVDTOAmU/s719/Milner+20130101+221.jpg" alt="" width="719" height="405" /></p>

<p>Would be nice if there was a way to keep it filtered to the top of the Forum. It's getting lost in the shuffle as more and more threads are started.<br>

Just a thought!</p>

 

<p>That is a good idea, James.</p>

<p>Clicking the "new responses" button at the top of the forum, or via the unified view, lets any threads with recent contributions bubble to the top. That's worked well for PotW threads on other forums.</p>

<p>Occasionally threads can be stickied but that's usually reserved for admin notices.</p>

<p>Here's a sample of an experimental form I've been dabbling with. My hands are occasionally pretty shaky (minor tremors from a neurological annoyance), so some of my pix taken with cameras lacking good image stabilization are blurry. Motion blur photos aren't unique and a couple other photo.netters consistently produce more interesting stuff than mine (notably Gordon B. and Thomas Sullivan). But their photos have encouraged me to try my hand at it rather than simply deleting my mistakes.</p>

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