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Day 365 \/ 730 \u2013 \u00a0But wait, there’s still one more.<\/p>\n

I started 365\u00a0to do one thing, to learn more about photography. \u00a0I didn’t know about composition, camera settings, or even what I really wanted to shoot. \u00a0365 projects are great for that. \u00a0Shoot every day for a year and you are bound to learn something. \u00a0Post those photos every day, and you will see patterns emerge, things you go back to, and a voice emerging.<\/p>\n

The second year of 365 was different. \u00a0It was all about posting photos, not taking photos, and that changed things, in some ways for the better, in some ways for the worse. \u00a0Near the end of the first year, I was spending entirely too much time shooting. \u00a0I could spend three hours walking around shooting, go home and edit for an hour or two, and in the end I would have posted one or two images. \u00a0Everything else was archive, not likely to see the light of day.<\/p>\n

The problem was that I wound up shooting things just for posting, not for quality posting. \u00a0There was stuff I really liked, things I was proud of, but I posted a lot of photos that I wasn’t proud of. \u00a0That can happen when you have a deadline to meet, and every day is a deadline on a 365 project.<\/p>\n

I had to start mining my archives for things to post, which was alright at first. \u00a0Then I broke my ankle and needed surgery. \u00a0You probably know this, and maybe you are tired of hearing about it. \u00a0But it kept me from going out and shooting for a while. \u00a0I couldn’t drive until the end of the year, resulting in less field work, less shots of barns and prairies, a lot less of what I liked to shoot.<\/p>\n

But I also got to go to some of our national parks, and shoot some nature. \u00a0It was something I hadn’t photographically explored, and I liked it. \u00a0The shot above is from a trip to Yosemite. \u00a0I was going to write something about the best way to be Ansel Adams is to not be Ansel Adams (to find your own voice), but that will have to wait. \u00a0It was one of the better things to come out of 365 year two.<\/p>\n

365 started as one thing and changed into another. \u00a0It wasn’t always something I was 100% proud of, but I did it. \u00a0In two years, I didn’t miss a day, even the day I broke my ankle, or the day it was operated on. \u00a0After two years of posting every day, it’s going to be weird to not. \u00a0But I also think it’s necessary to move to the next phase of this whole photographic journey.<\/p>\n

So what’s next? \u00a0I’ll touch on that tomorrow. \u00a0See you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 365 \/ 730 \u2013 \u00a0But wait, there’s still one more. I started 365\u00a0to do one thing, to learn more about photography. \u00a0I didn’t know about composition, camera settings, or even what I really wanted to shoot. \u00a0365 projects are great for that. \u00a0Shoot every day for a year and you are bound to learn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[2,71,357,358,361,360],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-118","tag-2","tag-ca","tag-nps","tag-nps100","tag-yosemite-falls","tag-yosemite-national-park","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesgralian.com\/365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}