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August 2004

So this started off being Picture a Week, which is fine, good idea and all that but frankly it hasn't worked at all. Why not? Well partly because I don't take a good photograph every week. Then when I do I take it on one of twenty cameras which means when I eventually get the film processed I can't remember when I took the pictures and how they fit into the sequence.

I realised that the Picture a Week thing didn't really fit my style. However, during recent efforts to tidy up the vast collection of photographs, I was reminded that what I do is a sort of photo diary so I have rejigged the pages to be a more informal diary/blog/collection. I'll try to make it a picture a week, perhaps use the digicam more, but I won't get upset if I don't.

April 2004

I was poking about on the Internet a rainy Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago looking for some information about a camera I was interested in buying on ebay. I was looking for stuff about old Canon rangefinders, Canonets.

I found a link to pages by the leicaslacker, Kyle Cassidy, and I spent an hour or so looking at his gallery of images, his interesting and unusual views on photography and his rather fine set of pictures in a photo a week series.

These date back to January 1999 and run through to today. The first set are very interesting. Documenting life in Philadelphia; bands, friends, political conventions. They take a darker turn with a sequence, quite disturbing, of a young girl Kyle befriends who appears to be self harming. These photos catch the atmosphere and the sequencing leads you through, diary style.

There are probably photo weblogs aplenty that do this I'm sure but this is the one that made an impression on me for the photographic quality and the discipline.

So I decided to have a go. There is a page on leicaslacker of others doing a Photo A Week (or PAW) but most of the links don't work. Has all this been superseded by blogs? I don't know.

Whether I can maintain a discipline of a picture every week I don't know and I am unlikely to get a photo on here in the week I took it due to the developing and printing time. Unless I go digital entirely and then what will I do with this Canonet?

	Why?	{Date}
	August 2004 So this started off being Picture a Week, which is fine, good idea and all that but frankly it hasn't worked at all. Why not? Well partly because I don't take a good photograph every week. Then when I do I take it on one of twenty cameras which means when I eventually get the film processed I can't remember when I took the pictures and how they fit into the sequence. I realised that the Picture a Week thing didn't really fit my style. However, during recent efforts to tidy up the vast collection of photographs, I was reminded that what I do is a sort of photo diary so I have rejigged the pages to be a more informal diary/blog/collection. I'll try to make it a picture a week, perhaps use the digicam more, but I won't get upset if I don't. April 2004 I was poking about on the Internet a rainy Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago looking for some information about a camera I was interested in buying on ebay. I was looking for stuff about old Canon rangefinders, Canonets. I found a link to pages by the leicaslacker, Kyle Cassidy, and I spent an hour or so looking at his gallery of images, his interesting and unusual views on photography and his rather fine set of pictures in a photo a week series. These date back to January 1999 and run through to today. The first set are very interesting. Documenting life in Philadelphia; bands, friends, political conventions. They take a darker turn with a sequence, quite disturbing, of a young girl Kyle befriends who appears to be self harming. These photos catch the atmosphere and the sequencing leads you through, diary style. There are probably photo weblogs aplenty that do this I'm sure but this is the one that made an impression on me for the photographic quality and the discipline. So I decided to have a go. There is a page on leicaslacker of others doing a Photo A Week (or PAW) but most of the links don't work. Has all this been superseded by blogs? I don't know. Whether I can maintain a discipline of a picture every week I don't know and I am unlikely to get a photo on here in the week I took it due to the developing and printing time. Unless I go digital entirely and then what will I do with this Canonet?