my digital life
My book of photos from the photochallenge.org 2008 challenges is now available on blurb.com.
This book includes the photos from the following challenges:
The 74 page book includes 159 photographs and is available in softcover and hardcover editions. You can see a preview of the book here.
2008 Challenge from Jeremy Brooks on Vimeo.
The 2008 Challenge was a challenge. One photo per week, documenting my community. Committing to shoot the same theme every week was not always easy. Some weeks I had no idea what I was going to shoot. Some weeks I just didn’t want to shoot. But I managed complete it. Here are some things I learned from the experience:
Doing some research about my community and planning to shoot specific things greatly helped in completing the project. I found a list of Richmond fire stations and a list of public art in Richmond. These lists provided an abundance of subject matter. Each week I picked one of the items on the list to shoot.
It was much easier to pick a subject and attempt to shoot it at the beginning of the week. If the subject was no longer there (as was the case for some of the public art I tried to shoot), I could pick another subject and shoot it later in the week.
Posting the shots on flickr, zooomr, and my blog gave me incentive to complete the project once I had started it. The shots appeared at photochallenge.org as well.
Tagging each photo with ’2008challenge’ made it possible to see everybody’s 2008 Challenge photos. In addition, it made it simple to automatically add my photos to a 2008 Challenge set. Flickr does not have the ability to create sets automatically based on tags, but you can use SmartSetr to do it.
Some of the project photos are not very inspired. Some are quite boring. Some I am really not happy with at all. But I posted them anyway, and I am happy with the project as a whole.
I’m really looking forward to the 2009 Challenge, and seeing what the completed project will look like at the end of next year. Can you do the 2009 Challenge as well? Why not give it a shot? It will be interesting to see a whole pool of photos from the year!
Week 51 of the 2008 Challenge.
This is unusually cold weather for the Bay Area. It is actually freezing.
Week 50 of the 2008 Challenge.
The Rubicon Bakery at 154 South 23rd Street in Richmond.
This mural was created by visitors and clients to commemorate the dedication in 1998.
Happy Repeal Day!
Week 49 of the 2008 Challenge.
December 5th falls during this week, which marks 75 years since prohibition was repealed. This week’s shot celebrates the ability of us to visit our favorite bar without having to sneak in through a back door.
Week 44 of the 2008 Challenge.
A rainbow appears briefly during a lull in the first big storm of the season.
Week 43 of the 2008 Challenge.
Catahoulla Coffee on San Pablo Avenue in Richmond. They roast their own coffee and serve it up fresh.
