demorcan wrote:I understand the basic concept that started this discussion. I have seen someone who says on their PaD gallery the photo should be taken that day, unprocessed, and posted that day.
I imagine the first folks to do a Photo-A-Day just did it because
they thought it might be a "cool" idea -- no heavy duty rules, just
cool to make a photo a day.
And then others joined in (or also thought it might be a "cool" idea
that they'd like to try as well). And so the idea caught on, and with
more people involved, more rules and more do's and don'ts seemingly
start floating in the air.
And in part, that's fine -- within reason and hopefully with a bit
of common sense to the reasoning, use your own criteria for
your PAD.
But the spirit of it is about more than just rigid adherence to
rules.
For my own part, I generally try to post an image every day,
at least so far as having X number of images up for the
X number of days I've been at the project.
But the fact is I don't shoot everyday. My Muse doesn't work
that way. Or my schedule doesn't work that way. Or somedays
I well rested to shoot and other days I'm just to damn tired
to see the extraordinary within the ordinary of life around me.
I could I could shot a shot each and every day. But from where I sit,
the spirit of the project is more about learning and experiment and
having fun and try to put up something which is more meaningful
than just a series of hastily made snapshots.
And so it is that, for example, my Tuesday's shot might have been
shot on Tuesday, but it also might haven shot the previous Saturday
-- more important to me that I try to put up a relatively more
meaningful image shot a few days ago rather than just a hastily
made snapshot literally taken within the last 24 hours.
The latter maybe technically correct, but the former seems to me
more in line with what I imagine to be the spirit a PAD project --
to have fun, to experiment, to learn, and to put up something which
is more carefully crafted than just the most hastily made snapshot
banged out two minutes before midnight.
Because any time we find ourselves forgetting why we do what
we do, that's the time to start questioning our own self-imposed
rules and to see if how we're spending our time actually makes
any sense.
Or so it seems to me.
CJ
http://www.pbase.com/cjmorgan/photoaday2004