31st January 2010 - Day 31

So here we are at the end of the first month. 31 pictures of my face which, despite having lost 11lbs since the first photo, doesn't seem to have changed at all. It's been fairly easy to keep this up so far but I'm going away to London for a few days next week which might be a bit trickier, and then the week after I'm back on placement in school and my life will get a whole lot busier.

Now I've only been doing this for a month - but check out this guy who took a photo of his face everyday for 6 years! I suppose once you've started it might get hard to stop...



I think I'll just stick with my goal of a year for now but you never know what's going to happen in the future.

7th January 2010 - Day 7

I've made it to the end of the first week of photos which I thought deserved a quick entry on the blog. As far as I can tell I look pretty much the same everyday so far. All the photos have been taken using the webcam on my netbook (which unlike a normal camera takes mirror image pictures so my face is backwards!) They have all, with one exception, been taken in the same spot in my living room. The 5th January photo was taken in my university library because I happened to be there and had the computer with me.

So there week go; one week down, 51 to go. Only another 358 pictures of my face left to take! To be honest, I don't know how great an exercise this is going to be for my mental health - even looking at seven pictures of my head is a bit weird, I'm not sure how I'll feel when the numbers start increasing. Only one way to find out though I suppose....

1st January 2010 - Day 1

So here is the first in what will hopefully be a whole year of photographs. Every day I'm going to take a photo of my face and upload it to the Flickr account I've created for the job, and if all goes according to plan then the photos will appear on this blog. Lots of other people have done this before and I first saw it here, but I thought it would be an interesting thing to do; especially this year which will see me going from student through a couple of months off (and hopefully some travelling) to being a probationer teacher. It's a year of changes and should be an interesting one, for me if no-one else!

With the various bits of technology I own I should be able to upload the photo every day, if not I will certainly be able to take one every day even if I have to upload it later. I won't be editing the photos at all (other than to crop them) so you'll see me in all my unadulterated glory! The proof being in this first photo, in which I am a bit hungover after last nights Hogmany celebrations and my face is blocked up with some sort of sinusitis or allergy or something.

There we go; Day 1. I won't be blogging with every photo but there'll be a few entries as we go to keep you updated with progress. Here's hoping I manage to keep it up until we're heading into 2011.