Endings and Beginnings...

[maleghasty]

So today is the last day of '365 Portraits'. Admittedly there are 366 portraits in the project, but then when I started I had not realised that the project would run across a Leap Year and once I did realise I did not want to change the project name.

You will see yesterday's portrait (#365) and today's (#366) later on today, but for now you will have to make do with today's Ficlet, which you can read here:

Regents Park Tube

I am also going to use this post to announce my 'Thing-a-day' project for 10/05/2008 to 09/05/2009. I am going to __try__ to write a Ficlet every day from tomorrow to the day before my birthday next year. I accept that this may indeed be hubris on a gigantic scale, but I have become hooked on the 'Thing-a-day' concept and I want to stretch myself, so here I go, girding my loins and preparing to do some serious endurance creativity. Clearly I will be keeping y'all posted via this journal (amongst other blogs)...

Comments

[thirstypixel.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on achieving this.

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Cheers man - it's been a blast!!

[lupercal.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's gone quick! Congratulations on seeing it through, that is an awesome achievement. Best of luck with the next project.

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Thanks mon ami - *fingers crossed*

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Well done.

If you've time, it would be great to see what you think you've got out of doing the project?

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much :-)

I am going to do a summing up type post when I post the last image, so yeah I am going to post about what it's given me - watch this space...

[littleonionz.livejournal.com]

Well done there, it's been quite a project, thanks for sharing.

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much and you're welcome :-)

Thanks for looking and for commenting.

[anoise.livejournal.com]

Really enjoyed watching your project! Congrats!

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much, glad that you have enjoyed... Look out later today for the last two :-)

[thru-her-lens.livejournal.com]

It seems to have gone by so fast.
I'm looking forward to your 'Thing-a-Day' project.

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

It has flown by... Still it's been fun :-)

[daisyann.livejournal.com]

Congratualations Olly. Now get working on the exhibition!

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

News will follow here and on other blogs as and when I can get something sorted on that front. Thanks for the encouragement :-)

[evilbun.livejournal.com]

I think you should do a 1 a week photography project and push yourself a bit harder as to the subject/theme/style... I'm not sure writing is your thing- you're a much much better photographer.

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Well... I can see what you're saying, but I think your point kinda proves that I need to spend some time focusing on my writing and flexing different creative muscles in terms of my daily creativity. There's still going to be lots of photography this year, but I want to pick my writing back up again, and writing a little piece every day is the writer's equivalent of aerobic exercise; if you see what I mean..?

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

Oh well done! This is going to sound a bit silly but I feel very proud to know someone who has set himself a challenge and seen it through to the very end. Takes maturity does that.
Now you are going to take up a writing challenge, oh excellent!

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much - what you have said doesn't sound silly and it means an awful lot to me :-)

I haven't seen you in far too long - are you still where I think you are and if I found myself in that neck of the woods may I call by? It may not be next week or net month, but I'm bound to be close by at some point...

(Being purposefully vague above as it seems silly to put places and addresses and things on the web, but I realise that I have none to put anymore - could you email me how to get in touch with you in ways other than LJ? My best email address is on my LJ profile.)

[sister-savage.livejournal.com]

So which portrait from the year was your favourite? I have my favourite (and no, it's not the one of my husband, although he is devilishly handsome).

[maleghast.livejournal.com]

Wow, there's a question...

I'm really not sure that I can pick one...

In the spirit of referencing one of my favourite books / films here is my all-time top five (in no particular order):

Because she was my first stranger...

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_godby/506523897/)

Because it is my most intense memory of the last year...

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_godby/528069230/)

Because it was my first milestone and the first that I really planned for more than a day...

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_godby/1347774186/)

Because I got to meet, learn from and photograph one of my heroes...

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_godby/2095993947/)

Because she said that she liked it (and that meant an awful lot to me)...

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver_godby/2321248233/)

Is yours in there? Will you tell me what yours is?

I want to say one more thing, they are my all-time top five right now but the truth is I love all of them for a million and one reasons and if you asked me tomorrow you'd get a different answer, I am sure.

[sister-savage.livejournal.com]