TenYearsOfMyLife.com
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Ten Years of My Life
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Back in 2000, I started a feature on my personal blog where I tried to take a photo everyday. At the time, it was mostly done to force myself to learn more about photography — including basics like framing, lighting, etc. It was also a great way to record memories of that year as they happened. I kept it up on a near-daily basis for about nine months total and in that time I captured a lot of changes. I switched jobs, moved from one major city to another 500 miles away, I got married, and I met dozens of new people at work, parties, and conferences. The act of taking a camera everywhere and recording memories as they happened gave me a rich archive of that year, and also improved my photography skills in the process.
A few weeks ago I realized how quickly everything has been changing since I've turned 30, and how much I miss doing daily photos. I came up with the idea of doing it over ten years for a couple reasons. Although it sounds like a lot of work, it's only about 3650 images if I posted every single day, and I've taken more than that many shots in just the last year alone. During the upcoming ten years, from the time I turn 31 until I turn 41, I expect I'll be witnessing a great deal of major changes and would love to have a way to remember them.
I came up with this idea a week and a half before my 31st birthday and quickly learned that approaching a project of this length requires a bit more forethought. Things on the web aren't normally kept up for that long, nor are projects designed as such. Since time was short, I've decided to use Movable Type along with Brad Choate's embed image plugin. It's the first domain I've registered for ten years, and I also set Movable Type to be as futureproof as possible. I'll be backing up the data and images on a monthly basis as well. I want to extend a very special thanks to Brad Choate for helping me out with the setup of his embed image plugin and I'd also like to extend the same thanks to Doug Bowman for helping out with the XHTML/CSS layout after I gave up all hope of getting the site to look exactly as I wanted to without using tables. Both guys are true craftsmen at what they do.
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