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project 2010365 | june & july

Derek Lapsley — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:09:35 +0000

Last week i posted a link on Facebook about a man who did his own Project 365 for 18 years straight (1979-1997) up to the day he passed. It’s a very interesting and inspiring story with some great images that leave you wanting to peak more into his mysterious life. If you’re interested, you can read the article about the story HERE and to find the over 6,000 polaroid images that he took HERE!

For now, here’s my Project 365 images for June and July.

InJoy

June:

July:

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project 2010365 | may

Derek Lapsley — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:32:31 +0000

Wow, June is already half over and I’m totally slackin’ on posting an end of the month wrap up on my Project 365. If you are one of my lucky friends on facebook or follow my business page, you will know that May and June have been packed full of activities to say the very least. I don’t think I’ve been home for one weekend to catch up on stuff since the first weekend of May and the forecast calls for at least another two weekends of madness then back to “normal”, YIKES!

Anyways, enough chatting… I got some work to catch up on, injoy.

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remember those long forgotten new years resolutions? | project 2010365

Derek Lapsley — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:57:41 +0000

This project has come to make me realize just how fast time passes through our lives. April 30th marked day 120 of 2010. You have now had over 120 days to work on all those New Year’s resolutions you set on day 1.

Where have you succeeded?

Where have you failed?

Do you even remember what those goals were?

Did you write them down?

Did you try any of the tips that I mentioned in THIS previous blog post?

How important are those goals to you?

If everything changed tomorrow would you be satisfied with what you accomplished in the last 120 days?

I am full of questions today. Questions I don’t necessarily have an answer to. Take a moment and reflect on the past 120 days, appreciate what you have been given, pat yourself on the back for your accomplishments, and push yourself to take the following 8 months and reach those goals you’ve been slacking on finishing or maybe haven’t even started. You can’t go back and start a new beginning, but you CAN start today and make a new ending.

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project 2010365 | march

Derek Lapsley — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:48:41 +0000

March was full of new relationships and fun adventures. I attended my first ever WPPI convention, got to hang out with some amazing people, washed my truck for the first time since last summer, drank green beer, plenty of awesome photoshoots, grub, and family. Life doesn’t get a whole lot better than this :)

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it’s time to geek out in vegas | project 2010365

Derek Lapsley — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:21:31 +0000

Tomorrow I will be boarding a plane to Las Vegas, NV for my first appearance at the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International Annual Convention and Trade Show! I am incredibly excited and can’t wait to learn, network, and meet a bunch of other photography geeks that dig what they do as much as I do. If you’re going to be there, let me know and let’s meet up! I will be M.I.A. from the blog about a week or so but I will most likely be updating my personal Facebook and Fan Page throughout the event as long as my phone doesn’t die… which will most likely happen given that my battery only lasts like 6 hours on a full charge (…on a good day!) and I’m doubting I’ll be in my room long enough to ever charge it, blah!

Also, since last weekend ended February and another month of my Project 2010|365 I will leave you with those images to keep you occupied for the time being. Please enjoy!

In the word of the Governator… ”I’ll be back!”

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what do you wanna see?

Derek Lapsley — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:24:34 +0000

As I come to a close on February’s month of images for Project 2010|365 find myself scheming on new ideas for pictures that I want to capture by the end of the year. I thought to make it even more interesting, fun, and challenging (…as if it’s not challenging enough to REMEMBER to take a new picture EVERY DAY!!), I would incorporate not ONLY my ideas but the ideas of YOU, my clients, friends, family, and fans.

How to participate:

Whether you email, call, text, twitter, myspace, facebook, etc… send me a comment, text, private message, wall post, call, email, snail mail, or send a letter delivered by pterodactyl (…which would be totally awesome by the way!), I need your input on what you want me to try and capture and include in the project. Your idea doesn’t even have to make sense, leave it open to interpretation, it can be an object, shape, color, subject, verb, noun, smell, sound, person, emotion, word, punctuation, number, blah blah blah… be as specific or vague as you want, send 1 idea or 100 ideas, whether unrealistic or simple I want to hear what you have to say!

I will then gather all the ideas/suggestions into a spreadsheet with who suggested what and start checking them off the list, one by one, updating you on my successes and failures. What do you think? Sound like fun? What are you thinking of RIGHT NOW? Take 30 seconds and send me what YOU want to see!

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project 2010365 | 01

Derek Lapsley — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:22:12 +0000

At the beginning of the year i began a personal project that i call project 2010365. The numbers standing for the year 2010 and the number of days in the year 365. What is it? Well, to sum it up in one sentence; Take at least one picture a day, every day of the year in the year 2010. It could be totally random, a pattern, texture, abstract, event, person, self portrait… whatever it is, it was something that i saw that day that inspired me to add it to the project. It’s only been a month and it’s already become quite challenging to remember to take a new picture EVERY DAY, much less come up with new and fresh images.

When i first heard about the project i was stoked and couldn’t wait to get started and i’m definately excited to get a finished product at the end of the year! I have no idea what to expect or exactly what im going to do with the images. I’m thinking i may produce a coffee table style album that would contain all the images, maybe some sort of collage, maybe a series of prints… i’m not sure quite yet and open to ideas if you have any?!

All of the images within this project throughout the year will be taken with my iPhone using the application Shake It Photo. I will not enhance or alter the actual photo in any way. What you see is what you get. At the end of each month, i will collect all the images, put them in a slideshow format and produce a blog post to share with you all.

That’s it. Keep an eye out for next months wrap up!

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