Wheel of the Year Project

[Pewari]

This might be a bit cheeky to post - if it is, feel free to remove it :)

Last year, I started a photo project where, on the first day of every month (or nearest day closest to for those that started a bit late!) I took the same photo of 12 different locations to track the passing year. The resulting composite (of my entry) can be found on flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/pewari/312130535/ Not photographically brilliant (I'm still way down on the learner scale) but I had good fun doing it, and it's great to see the changes in my children and in my neighbourhood over the year.

For 2007, a friend of mine (tangerinecath on flickr) is taking over the flickr group (http://flickr.com/groups/wheeloftheyear/) but is looking a bit lonesome with not many participants this year. I wondered if there were some digital photography school members who were searching for a New Year's Resolution project to get their teeth into who might be interested!

[Nicole]

Oh, another interesting project :) Your Wheel of the Year composite turned out really neat.

[wulf]

It's a neat idea but twelve pictures on the first of every month looks a bit too demanding for my other time commitments. Are there any groups you know of that take a similar "regularly spaced shots of the same subject" approach but without the discipline of assembling a 12x12 grid?

Wulf

[heliot]

Interesting project....something I'm going to consider. Your shots are really cool.

[Pewari]

wulf: to be honest there were a few people last year who just chose a smaller number of locations. There were no hard and fast rules as long as the general principle was upheld - revisiting somewhere monthly to see the changes. Or some did "something of interest in the garden" each month, or "what I'm eating today" as one of their monthly things... it was all fairly loose and free as long as you were enjoying it and had a regular theme.

Mainly because I find being too dogmatic about rules can stifle the fun!