A milestone approaching

Posting to my Daily Photo today, I noticed that I have over 950 posts to that blog. Every day, I post a photograph that I took that day. In less than two months I will have posted 1000 photographs to that little-noticed blog (it averages 25 view a day, a tenth of Dispatches). How should I mark this achievement?

I started Daily as a mechanism to get myself fluent in a digital workflow. I had just switched over six months earlier, and I was still at that stage where it felt like, despite 20 years in the business, I was just pretending to call myself a professional photographer. I barely knew what I was doing anymore, and I had to get better at working in this new environment. Dispatches started then as a blog to document that transition, and the Daily Photo soon turned into a regular, daily discipline where I learned to become comfortable in this new digital realm.

Now it is a part of my day, and barely takes any time at all. It makes me carry my camera nearly everywhere I go. It forces me to "get in the zone," even when I don't feel like it, and to find a photograph somewhere around me, even if the prospects don't look promising. It has had an effect on my creative process much larger than I could have imagined.

There are two ways I could mark this. In 46 days I will post my 1000th photo. My first post was on May 11, 2005. But, I missed a day early on, June 8, 2005 to be precise. If I wish to count this as a continuous series of photographs, I can start the odometer on June 9, and buy myself another three weeks to decide what I ought to do. What ought that to be? A party maybe? An exhibit of 1000 (really small) images? Another book to match my best-selling (I've sold 10!) "365", the record of 2006 in daily photos ?  Got some ideas for me?

Comments

[Guy Scharf]

Does your count of 25 per day for your daily image blog include those of us who see your images via the RSS feed? I read both your daily and digest blogs via RSS and Thunderbird rather than by visiting the web pages directly.

[Doug Plummer]

I have no idea. I did a search through the Typepad help section and couldn't find anything on this. Anyone have a clue?

[Earl]

You should mark the occasion with a post, of course!