P365 Apr 7 - Minifest

Today was "Minifest", the mini Melbourne Anime Festival (Manifest). It is just like an anime convention but on a very much smaller scale. Lots of people in costume, events, screening and fun stuff like that. It was great to catch up with several friends I only see occasionally, and plenty of opportunity for me to have fun taking photos of fun and interesting people.

Pictured above is Siera, someone I always have a blast photographing, and Minifest was no exception. She is wearing a hand-made outfit to which she referred as a "mass of plaid".

I also experimented with a hand-held group photo type 360 panorama. Normally I take these with a moderately elaborate tripod setup to ensure a minimum of alignment problems. I was pleasently surprised with how well the hand-held pano came out, although the down view shows a bit of alignment problems. You can check it out here. (Quicktime required)

If you would like to see the whole day's selected photos from Minifest, you can see them here.

Project 365

A friend of mine has inspired me. This year she has been doing something called "Project 365". Its sounds pretty impressive, but essentially the idea is simply to take and post at least one photo every single day for a whole year. This is the url of her photo blog: http://www.photoblog.com/user/aurian

I love this idea. Its stated purpose is multifaceted: Document your life, capture memories, learn more about photography etc. Historically I've had a difficult time seeing things like this through, but this shouldn't be too hard, and it will definately be a good thing for me, to help me with my photography which I always want to keep improving.

There's one essential flexibility with the rules. I don't have to POST a picture every day, just take one. I can post several days backlog in one day, just as long as I've taken something each day. In that spirit, my first post will be of some photos I took a few days ago, and I'll start "365" from there. I'll preface all such post titles with "P365".

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I hope you enjoy this journey. I wonder if I can keep it up :)