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What on Earth does that blog title mean you say? Well, I've decided to have a go at my very own '365 project'. Yep, a photo a day for the next year. No archives allowed, each day will be a fresh photo.  That it coincides with the New Year for 2011 is something of a happenstance as I am not a big believer in New Year's resolutions per se. Moreover it just felt right.  Expect a large mix of iPhone photos, shots from my projects, travels and good ol' fun photography.  So here we go, enjoy and subscribe to my blog via your favorite RSS reader and keep up as I intend to push myself into new boundaries this year and see what my creativity can do.

The view on New Year's Day 2011 from 35,000'.

Some more iPhone pics!

As I continue to explore the possibilities of always having a camera on me, here are a few pics from a recent mountain bike ride.  After getting up early on the east coast and working my way home I was very tired but needed to escape for a ride when I got home.  Good thing too, because we got two feet of snow the next day!  So after being up since 3:30am mountain time, a quick ride in south Boulder on the Marshall Mesa trails system was just what I needed.

Getting creative with the cell phone camera...

So most of us have those sometimes useful and often annoying devices called cell phones these days.  And most of them have a camera on them as well.  Since most of us don't always want to lug a big SLR camera with us everywhere all the time, or even a point & shoot the cell phone camera can come in handy at times.  You can argue that a 2 mega pixel cell phone camera isn't a great camera by any stretch.  This is true.  However with a little creativity and helpful editing software my iPhone camera is suddenly a bit more useful.  Enter the 'Best Camera' app from photographer Chase Jarvis. I had been looking for a decent camera app that would apply some simple filters and perhaps some cropping action.  Turns out he pretty much nailed it with this one.  There are some standard filters to apply such as blue or yellow.  Or you can get more creative with a sepia tone, high contrast, or that metro pop look a lot of folks like these days.

So after downloading the app, I found myself waiting for the Metra train in Chicago to head out to visit some friends.  I snapped a pic of a passing train, applied a filter and bamo!  Uploaded right to my Facebook account and instantly sharing with the world!  Pretty handy indeed!  Where is the pic you ask?  Here you go...

Waiting on the Metra

So it is with this new fancy app that I intend on trying to capture the world around me when I don't have one of my 'real' cameras with me.  I challenge you to do the same even if you don't have a fancy application to help out.  Now get out there and start shooting!