Have you heard of Project 365? Both in the digital scrapbooking internet community (where I travel) and the photography internet community (where Jacob travels) have been talking about it and working on it. It's a documentary photography project where you take a picture every day for a year. I actually didn't start reading about until January 2nd, so I felt like I was already too late for this year. Then we thought it might be fun to start up on June 1 when we move and document our first year in Hong Kong. The Daily Digi has a post here and here (with other links) talking more about it.
However, I have a dilemma. What do we do with all of the pictures after the year is finished? Below are some ideas I have come across.
Photo yearbook or books: On the second link above, she talks about putting the pictures and the captions in a book. That seems pricey to me though if you were to put 1 picture with caption on a page. (If you do photo books, as I have been researching I did find out about Viovio, which seems to be less expensive then some places). What other ways could I print them?
Photo blog + blog book: Someone mentioned doing a blog with all of the photos and printing a blog book. I know some of you have done blog books and maybe you can tell me more about it. Jacob found SharedBook. What places have you used? I got more interested in this idea when I realized that it was totally customizable.
Scrapping them and then printing a scrapbook: I would scrap it digitally (that's how I did Keely's 1st year book). If I choose this way, I have other decisions to make.
Scrap it by week: Here and here are some templates I've found for doing it by week (for examples). I also thought this one and this one could work with some tweaking. My question if I do it this way, is should I change my layout or keep it the same? Would it look boring if all 52 weeks were the same layout? Or could I do the same 4 layouts and change every 4 weeks...so that each month would look the same?
Scrap it by month: Here and here are some example templates I found for doing it this way. The problem with the second example is that there wouldn't be room for labels or to journal about it and I'm afraid a few years down the road we may have no idea why we took a certain picture. Of course I have the same problem with the first example as I do with the scrap by week option...do I change my layout each month or do it the same?
Is anyone doing this? Does anyone have any ideas? I have thought about this for over a week and I'm STUCK!! Please help!!
OK, so I started Project 365 on Jan. 1, 2008, but I quickly fizzled out. I'd be laying in bed at night thinking, "Did I get a photo today?" Then, I'd go take a photo of something random late at night.
ReplyDeleteI do LOVE your idea of doing it in honor of your 1st year in HK. It immediately made me think of doing it the first year we are with our adopted child.
It's so interesting to me that you've already thought through how you'd like to use the photos. I never think that far ahead.
Several of my friends have printed their blogs using http://www.blurb.com/
I kind of liked the weekly layouts better than the monthly layouts. The photo space was really small on the monthly layouts.
And that's my 2 cents. ha!
Yes, you should do it to capture your first year in Hong Kong. What a fabulous idea. (I hope you blog it too!)
That sounds like an awesome idea.
ReplyDeleteI used blurb for my first blog book and I love it. Its not totally customizable (they have limited templates to work with) but there's enough variety for me to like and not too much freedom to freeze my brain. I just finished my second blog book then lost about 100 pages worth of work when I threw my computer to the ground last week. nice. Let us know what you decide to do.
My blurb book of 200 pages cost about $40 but that was a good 2 years ago.
Thanks for the idea on blurb...I checked it out and that may be a great way to do print it...even if I scrap it. And I agree with you Sandra-- I think I'm going to go with the weekly page. I think I was afraid if I didn't come up with an idea on how to use them...then we'd end up with 365 pictures on our hard drive and that's it!! HAHA!! But maybe I should worry more about taking the pictures--but Jacob will help with that...I think! I have come up with some ideas on how to do it so I'll post about it soon instead of in the comments! LOL!
ReplyDeleteKelley- What size of book did you do? It looks like the prices haven't gone up much and is very reasonable!! I was just afraid that it was just be like someone printed the blog on a printer...so we'll have to look more at it. Jacob was thinking about printing our blog up until now of our life in CM (though I may have to do some pre-posts from when were posting elsewhere!) So sorry you lost your book when you dropped your computer! BLAH!!
Thanks girls for your help and ideas!!
So, I just came back to this post tonight because I wanted to see what other ideas were shared. I'm really inspired by the way you are organizing this project.
ReplyDeleteHummm...365 pictures on the hard drive sounds very familiar!
I think printing out a book of just CM would be perfect. We're getting ready to print our first four years.
I, too, need to go through the archives a bit and make sure the big stuff was blogged. A little back blogging never harmed anything! (I didn't really start blogging until our little guy was born. So 2004-2006 was all Hubs!)
I don't know what type of other blog you had, but there are all kinds of html codes to merge one blog into another. Blogger to Wordpress, etc. Blogger to blogger, etc.
I'm sorry I leave such long comments. hugs.