I like long projects. I like them because it’s a fun challenge to keep something going. That said, I dislike starting from January 1st. There’s so much going on the first of the year. I don’t like to start anything new on the first of the year.
So I started in March. I decided to take and post a photo everyday for a year. I chose March2March because I intend to post from March 1st, 2014 to March 1st, 2015.
Will I make it? Only time will tell. I’ve already missed a few weekend days in the first month. I’m not perfect. It’s not about perfection. It’s about taking pictures and sharing them.
After nearly forgetting to post a photo a couple of days, I decided I needed to make this project as simple as possible. I needed to automate it.
I’m not a programmer or anything fancy so I used a simple solution. I turned it https://ifttt.com.
I take all my photos with my iPhone, so I started there. First, I needed to differentiate March2March photos from the rest.
So I made a new album on my iPhone and named it March2March. Any new photo I want to post, I add to this album.
Then IFTTT takes over. I used a recipe to post from that album to Flickr.
This will post the photo to my public Flickr stream and tag is with March2March and Project65. Now that the photo is somewhere I can easily find it later. Then I share it using this recipe.
It takes any new photo from Flickr tagged March2March and posts it to Tumblr. Originally I had it add the photo to the queue but sometimes it would not get posted for a few days, depending what I had there, so now I have it post automatically.
It’s not a perfect system. I still need to go into Flickr and manually add the March2March photos to a set there. And sometimes the IFTTT recipe doesn’t trigger because my phone has to be on WiFi for it to fire due to cellular data usage.
But it works well enough for me and allows me to easily share a photo I take nearly everyday.
