PJNet » Flickr http://pjnet.org Public Journalism Network Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:04:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 SoCon08: See the Video, 300 photos, 58 Posts http://pjnet.org/post/1727/ http://pjnet.org/post/1727/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:29:32 +0000 Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/post/1727/ Amani Channel, the man behind MyUrbanReport.com, was busy at our SoCon08 conference Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, 2008 hosting a dinner table conversation, providing an afternoon workshop on video and, of course, what else…shooting a video of the conference. He is fast; he was uploading part of the event video as the conference progressed. So enough with the introductions, the first SoCon08 video is below, about 300 photos are at Flickr and here’s what people are saying about SoCon08 in the first 58 blog posts. I will have more, but my three word summary: It Was Fantastic.

]]> http://pjnet.org/post/1727/feed/ 2 Take a Photo a Day, Join Project 365 http://pjnet.org/post/1679/ http://pjnet.org/post/1679/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:23:13 +0000 Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/post/1679/ When I first met Stephanie Roberts at a party hosted by James Harris of Elemental Interactive, she was carrying a camera. She will be at our SoCon08 conference and at the conference’s social networking site, I learned she is involved in Project 365, where people commit to shooting and, eventually, posting one photo every day. Many post their work at Flickr and the stuff is fascinating to look at. Some,  like Stephanie , post some commentary and their photos at their own sites. Several say it improves their photography.

It’s not that easy, the project tutorial says:

This is perhaps the most important tip of all. You will get tired of taking a photo every single day. Some days, you will consider giving up. Don’t. The end result is worth the effort. Remind yourself why you wanted to do it in first place.

There will be times you’ll think there’s nothing interesting left to take a photo of, and times you’ll think you didn’t do anything exciting enough to take a photo of. There’s always a great photo to be made.

Get out of the house and take a walk. Or stay inside and look around. Take a photo of something important to you. Take a photo of the inside of your house so you can see how your taste has changed over the years. Take a photo of anything, just don’t stop.

Of course, this post would have made more sense if I had done it prior to the New Year. However, I just posted a question : “Is it too late?”  at the Project 365 discussion group — this year Project 365+1- Jan 1st 2008 for the leap year –and they say although most folks started on January 1, if you want to start now, go for it.

Personally, I am not sure if I want to make the commitment, I already have a very full plate; still the idea intrigues me.  And I think having students in media classes, even beyond photojournalism classes, shoot a photo each day might be a good idea. I teach a feature writing class and it might help the students become more aware of the world around them — and it might do the same for me.

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