Since January 7th, 2008 I have been taking one photograph for every day of the week and creating a gallery of them. I call this series of galleries Things I Saw. The November gallery has been posted.
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The Things I Saw project began as a reaction to receiving a new digital camera from my mother-in-law last Xmas. I decided that I wanted to try to shoot one ‘good’ photograph per day for every day of the year. I have not missed a day so far. I have taken a total of 12,394 photographs to date of which 330 have been posted in the Things I Saw Photo Galleries.
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This experiment has had it’s challenging moments. Some days I have had to seek out the photograph for that day. Other days the photo just exposed itself and I just happened to be ready with the camera. This month has been more difficult due to “daylight savings”. I leave for work at 7am and get home close to 5pm so there isn’t much time for me to get daylight photos. That explains why you will see many night shots, or staged shots in this months gallery. I keep a camera with me every where I go and sometimes I just point the camera out the moving car’s window and shoot. Digital photography…how did I shoot photographs before you came along?
I have many ideas as to what to do with a year’s worth of photos and data about those photos. I would like to see the average times during which the photographs were taken, the various subject matter and who knows what else really. I already put together a video of all the photographs from January – June set to the song Weird Fishes / Arpeggi by Radiohead (check it out below or see it’s real home here) and I am sure that once all the photos have been collected for the entire year I will be putting together another video showcasing the entire collection.
The titles of the photographs you will find in November’s gallery are:
November Leaves :: 2:45pm :: November 01, 2008
School Bus Light :: 12:45pm :: November 02, 2008
Extracted 18-Wheeler :: 5:17pm :: November 03, 2008
Time To Vote :: 4:11pm & 4:51pm :: November 04, 2008
A Happy Man :: 6:20pm :: November 05, 2008
Sunset Over Williston :: 4:43pm :: November 06, 2008
Heading Home From Work :: 4:51pm :: November 07, 2008
Patrick’s Pizza Oven :: 7:27am :: November 08, 2008
Cambridge Junction Bridge :: 7:16am :: November 09, 2008
The Eye Of Kai :: 2:18pm :: November 10, 2008
Tractor Trailer :: 7:40am :: November 11, 2008
Dying Deer :: 7:23am :: November 12, 2008
The Price Of Gas II :: 4:12pm :: November 13, 2008
Sailing Lake Champlain :: 4:11pm :: November 14, 2008
Distorted Plant Stalks :: 4:00pm :: November 15, 2008
Coffee Beans :: 11:52am :: November 16, 2008
Coffee Beans II :: 8:04pm :: November 17, 2008
Off To School :: 7:02am :: November 18, 2008
The Road :: 5:33pm :: November 19, 2008
Street Sign :: 7:45,7:47,7:48am and 4:45pm :: November 20, 2008
Shelburne Road :: 4:48pm :: November 21, 2008
Saturday Snow Storm :: 7:51am :: November 22, 2008
Grazing :: 9:37am :: November 23, 2008
Nashville Road :: 7:22am :: November 24, 2008
Bridge Rt. 2 :: 4:33pm :: November 25, 2008
Rocking Horse :: 2:19pm :: November 26, 2008
Everest K2 Typewritter :: 12:12pm :: November 27, 2008
Sparks :: 5:22pm :: November 28, 2008
Snow-Capped :: 3:26pm :: November 29, 2008
Orniment :: 2:19pm :: November 30, 2008
All photographs are the property of me, Michael McKennedy. If you wish to use any images in any form of media please contact me as I am sure that we can work something out. Just do me a favor and don’t steal from me! It’s not nice.
Calendar, spreadsheets, documents, maps, video, photographs, chat, video chat, themes, labels, oh and don’t forget email! All of this from one email application? From one FREE email application? Yes! Thank you Google!
Gmail (click image for larger view)
I assume you use email. You are alive, you have a computer, therefore you must use email! There are different classifications of email users, which could be another article in itself, but Gmail offers enough forms of customization to attract all types of email users – from the ‘poweruser’ to ‘emoticon abuser’ – Gmail is a breath of fresh air in the world of email!
Before Gmail came along (for me a few years ago) I dabbled in YahooMail and Hotmail for free email and Thunderbird and Outlook/Outlook Express for desktop apps. Hotmail is a load of crap! I will just leave it at that. Yahoo lost me about eight years ago. I don’t really recall what caused me to stop using YahooMail but I did.
Just last week I was at a co-worker’s desk and she had Gmail open and I noticed some text at the top of her Gmail account, it looked different from what I was looking at on my own Gmail account. I didn’t want to stare so I made a mental note to find out what Google was telling her (and not me) and went back to my desk. Within a few minutes I was submerged in work and forgot to check my own Gmail account. About an hour later while talking with another co-worker I was asked, “hey, have you seen themes for gmail yet?” It clicked, the notification in Gmail was alerting the user that something new had been added (which seems to happen quite a bit)! I changed tab focus over to my open Gmail window, hit the refresh button but did not see any notification. I clicked ‘settings’, and didn’t find any mention of themes! So I did what any modern person would do when they have a question – Google it! I typed in Gmail themes and within seconds found out that Gmail had rolled out themes and that if I didn’t have the option yet that I could expect to see it within a short period of time. When I got home I logged into Gmail and there it was…a notification telling me out themes for Gmail! I browsed the many variations and ended up with a theme called ‘Shiny’. I must tell you though, I am not one to typically sit around and play with the look of the applications I use. I am not into have one hundred ‘skins’ for my media player but here was Gmail telling me that they were giving me a gift and it wasn’t even my birthday so why was I so excited?
Themes are just a small part of the Gmail world. Google Docs offers online spreadsheets and document storage/collaboration for free. Google Chat incorporates chat right into the email application and now offers video chat (which by the way works quite well) and the ability to chat voicemail messages to a mobile phone and it works with AOL chat. (I never did use AOL for much of anything but chat.) Then there is Google Calendar which has become my one source to store all of my appointments. My wife and I share a calendar so we can get synchronize and I have at least 2 other calendars I use for work. I schedule meetings through Google Calendar and if I have to travel I am looking up my route on Google Maps! That’s a whole lot of Google!
The world of email has been turned on it’s head with Gmail. I work in the technology industry and everyone, and I mean everyone has a Gmail account! Messages are treated like conversations (unless you have used Gmail you probably don’t know what I am talking about), calendar access, Google Docs, maps, photo/video storage and chat right in one convenient place (the pre-stages of ‘cloud computing?’)! These are just a few of the features (there are many, many more!) that Google has decided to give us, and to that I say….Google…is there anything you can’t do?
Really, go ahead, buy a few photographs if you like. The images you see here are generally reduce to a 900px width. The photographs for sale are the original files, well, not in RAW format or anything, they are processed JPGs and typically 4752 in width, links to buy them can be found by the bottom left corner of each image. Photography makes for a great gift!
HRD Photography, bokeh, black and white, iphoneography, drawing with light, portrait, landscapes, and architecture photography are a few of the photographer's methods which I dabble in.
