Statistics

18 Jul 2013

I’m almost 2/3 into my 365 project and I think it is about time to look at some statistics.

When starting this project my plan was to shoot every day and post a picture shot that day on the internet. How difficult this turned out to be! Since I have a full-time day job I’m almost entirely dependent on shooting in the evenings (the university I work for luckily has different buildings across town so sometimes I manage to get a daytime shot when I have to be at another location for a meeting).

I started out on November 25, 2012. I was sick at home for the first time in years and said to myself: “Why start tomorrow?” I am a master procrastinator but decided that now was the time. So I just started .

In the first few days/weeks it was a matter of getting in the hang of shooting every day, which was not as easy as it seems. Where do I start? What do I take pictures of? But slowly it was getting to be a habit.

(I’m afraid this is turning into a self help post on procrastination and how to overcome it, but looking back, this 365 project is part of me changing. Returning now to the project!)

At some time in the project I could not shoot a picture for whatever reason, and decided to look at and post an older shot. When I go out shooting most of the time I take more than one shot (or a multiple of shots if I decide to go HDR). Why would I want to let those shots go to waste just because I artificially limited myself to posting the same day I shot? I was busy with photography after all even if I didn’t shoot it that specific day! Still I tried to limit the amount of these kind of shots.

So how many posted shots where not shot that specific day? Well, of the 235 shots I posted before today 33 shots where more then one day old.

Number days old
14 1
2 2
3 3
2 4
1 5
2 6
1 7
1 8
1 9
1 12
2 13
1 17
1 20
1 23

There were two other shots which actually were shot a day late.

So, this means up to this day 15% of the shots where shot on another day then the day I posted them. All in all I’m quite pleased.

Two hundred and thirty-three

15 Jul 2013

Reverting

And back to the old site… While everything looked good at the front end, the back end did not want to cooperate as my Atom feed was not updated (it was empty actually) and the Archives section was not updated as was the Latest Entries part on the home page. So, starting over! Not sure when the new site will be active again, I’m doing it one step at a time.

Daily Shot

The chapel.

Two hundred and thirty-three

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Two hundred and thirty-two

14 Jul 2013

Updated Site

As you can see the site looks different. I wanted to get this site to be more twenty-thirteen and that means it has to be responsive. I chose to use Foundation, a responsive front-end framework. I haven’t however bothered to update the included CSS yet. Getting it to look like the old site wasn’t that hard luckily, but updating the rest was to much for this Sunday ;)

On my wish list now is a means to navigate the site more easily, that is, links to “previous” and “next” posts (hi, Dayenna!). This is a lot more cumbersome since I have to maintain a list with posts, and it means I have to dig into the CGI-scripts behind this site.

Daily Shot

You don’t have to go far to get an awesome sunset.

Two hundred and thirty-two

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