One of the goals of 2019 is to bring back the SELFIE PROJECT. So far I am 8 for 8, including Day 0.
I’ll share what I consider the best of the SELFIE PROJECT monthly. I’ll share the pictures daily on Instagram.
Here are the first 8 pictures.
January 1
January 2
January 3
January 4
January 5
January 6
January 7
I haven’t decided yet if I will include other people in the SELFIE PROJECT or if all the pictures will be just me flying solo. I guess we’ll see.
Happy New Year to people who celebrate such things.
I like to look at some meaningless statistics every 250 posts and I also look at fairly meaningless year end statistics.
Just so happens that I get to combine them today!!
Here is both a year in review and a celebration that I have made it to 3252 blog posts. I was on the Alamo Bowl Road Trip visiting submarines, cults, and reality television stars when post #3250 came around, so I hope you can excuse the tardiness.
The first thing I want to look at are the most popular CATEGORIES in the history of “An Artist’s Notebook”.
Top 10 Journal Entry Categories
1. Portrait – 527
2. Weekly Photo Challenge – 504
3. Flowers – 497
4. Animals – 405
5. Jesse – 361
6. Photography – 355
7. Shannon – 320
8. Teresa – 296
9. Black & White – 291
10. Carla – 280
Top 10 People Categories
1. Jesse – 361
2. Shannon – 320
3. Teresa – 296
4. Carla – 280
5. Jay – 279
6. Mom – 277
7. Derrick – 256
8. Willy – 227
9. Vest – 221
10. Jen – 209
Top 10 Not-People Categories
1. Portrait – 527
2. Weekly Photo Challenge – 504
3. Flowers – 497
4. Animals – 405
5. Photography – 355
6. Black & White – 291
7. Road Trip – 262
8. Personal Photo Project – 261
9. Life – 234
10. Nature – 215
“Photography” and “Life” are general categories that I have been working on eliminating as I go back and restore historical “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory. Hopefully they will have both dropped off the Top 10 Lists by journal entry #3500.
If you are wondering how to become a Top 10 person on this list. The easiest way is to submit to the Weekly Photo Challenge. After that, the best way is to volunteer to model and photo assist for photography projects. Then after that, I would suggest going on road trips with me or attending Iowa State athletic events with me or going on road trips to Iowa State athletic events with me.
The people that are right outside of the Top 10 are:: Sara, Kim, Dawn, Becky, and Nader.
If you are looking for a goal for 2019, you could do worse than trying to crack the Photography 139 Top Ten People Category List. You obviously could do way, way, way, way, way, way, way better too.
Now we will turn out eye towards 2018.
Top 10 Most Popular Photography 139 Galleries of 2018 by Views
1. 9 EMOTIONS PROJECT – 48,722
2. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE YEAR 5 – 37,614
3. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE YEAR 5 – ALTERNATES – 33,622
4. 2008 – JANUARY – JUNE – 26,032
5. SELFIE PROJECT – 2017 – 23,141
6. HOUSTON MISSION TRIP – 2018 – 22,046
7. SOUTH DAKOTA TRIP – 2017 – 21,868
8. BOONE COUNTY FAIR CONTEST NOMINEES – 2018 – 17,211
9. SAYDIE HOWARD – CLASS OF 2017 – 14,808
10. IOWA STATE CYCLONES FOOTBALL – 2018
The 10 Most Popular Photography 139 Images by Views
2. 2386
3. 2327
4. 1958
5. 1621
6. 1456
7. 1445
8. 1321
9. 1293
10. 1241
On the Instagram, these were my 9 Most Popular Photos based on Likes:
My theme for my 2018 Instagram posts was Black & White. My theme for 2019 will be HDR Toning. Also, I will be bringing back THE SELFIE PROJECT to Instagram in 2019.
You can follow me on Instagram here:
I entered 3 photo contests with the following results:
Purple Ribbon – Boone County Fair
Blue Ribbon – Boone County Fair
Blue Ribbon – Boone County Fair
Blue Ribbon – Boone County Fair
Selected for Display – Iowa State Fair
Not Selected for Display – Iowa State Fair
Selected for Display – Iowa State Fair
Not Selected for Display – Iowa State Fair
1st Place Photoshop – Pufferbilly Days
1st Place Photojournalism – Pufferbilly Days
Pufferbilly Days
3rd Place Hidden Treasures of Boone County – Pufferbilly Days
Pufferbilly Days
Pufferbilly Days
Last note:
My goal for 2019 is the same as it was in 2018:
I’m gonna step my game up and get what is coming to me.
Good luck in 2019 everybody!
It is over! The Selfie Project is over! But we should have a couple last looks at all that was “accomplished”!
Here are my favorite pictures from December:
December 4
December 6
December 7
December 9
December 11
December 12
December 13
December 16
December 17
December 18
December 20
December 21
December 22
December 23
December 24
December 28
December 29
December 30
January 1
Here is a photomosaic of the December 31 selfie:
This photomosaic consists of 3000 tiles. 1 images is used a maximum of 10 times. If you would like to see the image at full resolution, click on the link below to download:
I also made a video featuring all 367 images. You can watch it below:
Of course, if you subscribe to this blog via email or RSS Feed, you will have to physically go to this blog entry to view the video!
It was a good project and while at least Michelle is sad to see it go, it is time to put it to bed. Maybe I’ll bring it back in 2019.
Time for a look back at 2017. While it was a disaster for our country and for the world, it wasn’t so bad for me personally.
Here are the 5 Most popular Photo Galleries on my website:
SELFIE PROJECT – 2017 (58566 VIEWS)
2007 – JULY-DECEMBER (30046 VIEWS)
The 5 Most Popular Blog Entries (BASED ON COMMENTS):
YOU, YA JUST GET IN THAT HEAD SPACE, YA KNOW (15 COMMENTS)
The 5 Most Popular Photos on my Website (BASED ON VIEWS):
Ground Squirrel – 4349 VIEWS
Me and Naima – 2619 VIEWS
Sidewalk Chalk – 1862 VIEWS
Jesse and I at the Pep Rally Before the Big Men’s Basketball Championship Game – 1800 VIEWS
There were 400 blog posts in 2017. Pretty sure that is a record.
In 2017, I got to see Beale Street, Mount Rushmore, The Civil Rights Museum, and the Badlands. All places I’ve wanted to see for years.
In 2017, I got see Iowa State win a Big 12 Championship in Men’s Basketball and win a bowl game and watch Iowa State beat the #5 team in the country.
In 2017, I got to be President of the Methodist Men, serve on the Administrative Council for my Church and go on a Mission Trip with the Youth Group to Saint Paul.
In 2017, I attended birthday parties, birthday dinners, 4 weddings (I think), and too many funerals. Even though, there weren’t many.
In 2017, I went on vacations to Minnesota, Kansas, South Dakota, and Tennessee.
In 2017, I established a new tradition of The Union Street Movie Theater Movie Night.
In 2017, I didn’t spend enough time with friends and family.
In 2017, I watched too much television and read too few books.
This brings me to my goals for 2017:
1. I’m gonna step my game up and get what’s coming to me. (My standard goal.)
2. I’m going to read at least 20 books in 2018.
I don’t have any new photo projects for 2018. I’m not continuing the Selfie Project. My Instagram account is going to go 100% black and white in 2018. I will finish the Photo Journal Project.
These are the things that I will do in 2018.
I don’t know that I did much that was particularly interesting in November, but I do feel like I did get some interesting photos, even though it doesn’t feel like I did that much in November.
Here are my favorites from THE SELFIE PROJECT from the month of November:
November 4
November 5
November 6
November 7
November 9
November 10
November 11
November 12
November 13
November 15
November 16
November 19
November 20
November 22
November 23
November 24
November 25
November 26
November 28
November 30
There is 1 month and one day left in THE SELFIE PROJECT. I’m sure that my Instagram followers look forward to its conclusion. I don’t know if I will substitute with a different daily project or if I will just take some time to sit under my own vine and fig tree.
If you do want to keep up with THE SELFIE PROJECT on a daily basis and see what other things I Insta, you can follow me under the following handle
You can also see all of THE SELFIE PROJECT images by clicking on the link below:
I’ll try to finish up the last 30 or so THE SELFIE PROJECT images strong! But we’ll see.
You can tell the year is starting to wind down. I don’t feel I did the best work on THE SELFIE PROJECT in October. It admittedly wasn’t the busiest month of the year for me, but I still had plenty of things go down. I’ll have to try to do better in November. Finish off THE SELFIE PROJECT strong!!
October 3
October 4
October 6
October 7
October 8
October 10
October 13
October 14
October 16
October 18
October 19
October 22
October 24
October 25
October 28
October 30
October 31
I do at least have plans to travel farther than Ankeny in November. So that is something!
Remember, you can follow THE SELFIE PROJECT’S daily progress by following me on Instagram:
We will check in on this project again in a month!
Here is a look back at my favorite September photos from THE SELFIE PROJECT:
September 2
September 6
September 7
September 10
September 15
September 16
September 17
September 20
September 21
September 23
September 24
September 25
September 26
September 27
September 28
September 29
And if you can’t wait for these monthly updates, you can follow THE SELFIE PROJECT’S daily updates by following me on Instagram:
I think I had a pretty decent September. Hopefully October treats me well.
One of the benefits of THE SELFIE PROJECT is that I can look back at a month and feel less worthless. Hey, I actually did go out and do stuff and see people in month X. I’m a winner!
Speaking of winners, these are the photos I consider winners from the month of August:
August 5, 2017
August 6, 2017
August 7, 2017
August 10, 2017
August 11, 2017
August 12, 2017
August 13, 2017
August 15, 2017
August 16, 2017
August 19, 2017
August 20, 2017
August 21, 2017
August 22, 2017
August 24, 2017
August 26, 2017
August 27, 2017
August 29, 2017
August 30, 2017
August 31, 2017
Remember that THE SELFIE PROJECT photos are posted on Instagram on the daily. If you don’t know, Instagram is that little sliver of social media that doesn’t suck… much. There are a few lazy slackjaws out there that post memes, but other than that, it is just pictures. Any way you can follow me at the account below:
Now I need to make sure that my September is almost as great as my August!
It feels like I didn’t get off the couch much in July. I guess we’ll take a look. Here are some of my favorites from the month of July from THE SELFIE PROJECT:
July 2
July 4
July 5
July 8
July 9
July 11
July 12
July 14
July 15
July 18
July 19
July 20
July 22
July 24
July 26
July 27
July 29
July 30
Maybe July wasn’t so bad. But I think August will be even better!
Here we are in August and I haven’t checked back into THE SELFIE PROJECT for the month of June. Here are some of favorites from June:
June 5
June 8
June 9
June 10
June 11
June 13
June 15
June 16
June 17
June 18
June 20
June 23
June 24
June 25
June 26
June 27
June 28
June 29
June 30
One side effect of THE SELFIE PROJECT I wasn’t expecting is that there are times when I think that might life is boring and I don’t do all that much. Then I look back at these pictures and I can see that I DO get out of the office or off the couch every now and again.
If you want to see all THE SELFIE PROJECT images, you can go here:
And of course, you can stay current on THE SELFIE PROJECT by following me on the Instagram:
I hope my July ended up being as good/great as my June!
