Top 5: Most interesting "365 Days" photos

Using the unknown and nebulous flickr algorithm, here are the top 5 most "interesting" pictures I took during my year long self-portrait project.



1: Day 121


2: Day 78


3: Day 107


4: Day 339


5: Day 210


Project Links

• 365 Days Project Page
• My Pictures from the project
• My Complete Flickr Stream

Day 365 - Fin

Day 365 - Fin
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.

I'm officially done my 365 days project, wherein I take and post one self-portrait a day for a year.

Here are some interesting numbers:

• Number of Haircuts: 7
• Number of Hats Worn: 10
• Shots featuring my left hand: 66
• Shots featuring my right hand: 50
• Square shots: 32
• Shots tagged "Red": 20
• Shots tagged "Blue": 8
• Shots tagged "Green": 8
• Shots tagged "Star Wars": 19

[Previous Slashboing posts on the project]

Project Links

• 365 Days Project Page
• My Pictures from the project
• My Complete Flickr Stream

Day 300

Day 300 - Focus
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.

I'm approaching "endgame" of my yearlong photography project. With just a couple more months to go I'm looking forward to the project's completion.

Still upcoming is my trip to Dragoncon, which has lots of photographic opportunities.

I'm not quite sure what project I'll take on when this is done.

Previously on Slashboing

• 365 Days Project Page
• My Pictures from the project
• My Complete Flickr Stream

Name that emblem

Day 295 - Name that emblem
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.

I picked up this pin on eBay for a steampunk costume because it looks cool, and the symbology is not readily recognized. Then I thought I should probably know what the pin meant before I starting wearing it.

The left hand side has a coloured enamel bandage wrapped skull, while the right side is an embossed profile of a living man. The bottom has a torch and the letters "EMRB". The pin was made in France, and the auction was French, so I'm presuming that the organization that used this pin was also French.

I have googled the letters "EMRB" and "ERMB" and nothing meaningful has come up.

The question to you is: What is this? What does it represent.?

365 Days Project Update

I am on day 225 in my yearlong self-portrait photography project on flickr, and things are going well. Lately I have also taken on a personal challenge to alphabetically theme my photos with for the "An Alphabet of Life" flickr pool.

This is yesterday's "L: Lord of the Rings" picture:



This makes today an "M" day. Any suggestions?

For reference

• 365 Days Project Page
• My Pictures from the project
• My Complete Flickr Stream
• Previously on Slashboing
  

Halfway through 365 Days Project

Day 182 - Exit Strategy
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.

Today is day 182 of my participation in the 365 Days Project on Flickr. Those who do math will note that this marks the halfway point.

Day 150

Day 150 - Tool of the task
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.

I reached another notable milestone in the 365 Days Project. After 150 days of taking self-portraits, I have learnt much more about my camera, but not so much about myself, other then I don't seem to shave as much as I should.

Perhaps I will discover deeper truths in the next 50 pictures/days.

• 365 Days Project Page
• My Pictures from the project
• My Complete Flickr Stream

Christmas gifts from Flickr

Flickr just posted to their blog today that they have increased the limits on uploading bandwidth. Those with paid accounts now have unlimited uploads, and those with free accounts (like me) got a 5x boost from 20MB per month up to 100MB. That means I can start uploading higher resolution images, however my maximum viewing limit is still 200 pictures, which I just reached this week

Flickr also added a cool easter egg (xmas egg?) to the note feature. Adding a note "ho ho ho hat" draws a Santaman hat while "ho ho ho beard" give the picture whiskers.


I think it may disappear in the new year so I document it with this picture. The original is found here.

Fooling all the wrong people

Sure enough, the picture I posted yesterday, and submitted to the 365 Days project was indeed my right elbow joint. I don't think I fooled anyone, as it would seem that Slashboing readers and Drhaggis fans in general are too smart to be fooled by a simple"elbow-as-fake-butt" ruse.

I did however score big hits on my Flickr account by using suggestive tags such as "nude," "naked," "flesh," and "skin." I garnered over 200 hits on that image of my elbow, while my typical project pictures are in the 20-30 hit range.I bet people searching for those kind of images were a might disappointed to see what I offered them, or more accurately, what I didn't offer them. <insert convention runners joke here>

Name that body part

Day 68 - Name that body part
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.

Here is picture of my naked skin taken for Day 68 in my participation in the 365Days Project on Flickr. Can you guess which part it is? How brave do you think I am? I will post the answer tomorrow.

Enjoy!

50 ways after 50 Days

Today is day 50 of my contribution to the 365Days Project on Flickr, where the goal is to take a self-portrait every day for a year. To mark this milestone, my contribution for the day was me flashing a "fiddy" hand gesture. This is unlikely to be any sort of real hand gesture used or understood by anyone, but it does handily spell out "50".



This is also marks the 50% mark of my participation in the month long NaBloPoMo. If you don't know what that is, and are unwilling to look it up on Google or follow a simple link, then frankly I can't help you.

365 Days Project

I have recently joined the "365 Days" group on flickr. The idea is to take one new self portrait every day for a whole year, and post it to the group.

I hope to learn something about myself over the year and expose some deeper truths. Namely how many haircuts I get and how many times I wear a particular shirt. While out and about, I tend to take pictures of the thing I'm looking at, not of me standing in front of said thing. Since I really don't take a lot of pictures with myself in them, this may be a bit of a challenge.

This will make for boring and repetitive Slashboing posts, so if you want to follow my progress you can see them all here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drhaggis/tags/365days/

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