Imagine that. I actually took a photo each and every day during this past month. Not only that — I also uploaded all of them to the Flickr photo sharing site for the whole world to see. I mentioned earlier in another post that the quality and the ‘artistry’ of the photos themselves were not that important — it’s the fact that I’ve set out to accomplish something, following through and enjoying the process that matters. It’s a challenge, easy as that.

All the photos were taken with my iPhone 3GS. Some people find it hard to take sharp pictures with no blur when shooting with the iPhone. It’s not hard at all – in fact, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. First off, the picture is taken when you let go of the shutter button, not when you press it down. This is how you should do it; put your finger on the shutter button, frame your shot and chose a focus area (you can brighten a shot by focusing in a dark area), hold the iPhone as steady as humanly possible and let go of the shutter button. Boom, instant iPhone photo skill improvement!

Oh my, this post is getting a bit longer than I expected. On to the last part. How did I go about making this post? Well, the Flickr gallery is generated via the WordPress plugin FancyFlickr and the nice effect that expands the photos and darkens the blog background is non other than the legendary Lightbox 2 plugin. There you go! I might change to another plugin in the future, there’s always better stuff out there that I have to try.

February, here I come…

Links:
FancyFlickr
Lightbox 2
My January 2010 Flickr set at Flickr.com