{"id":1909,"date":"2014-04-03T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2014-04-03T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:05:06","slug":"march2march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/march2march\/","title":{"rendered":"March2March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like long projects. I like them because it&#8217;s a fun challenge to keep something going. That said, I dislike starting from January 1st. There&#8217;s so much going on the first of the year. I don&#8217;t like to start anything new on the first of the year.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/peroty\/13119151443\" title=\"March 12, 2014 at 01:28PM by Carl Holscher, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3757\/13119151443_f1bccdac98_c.jpg?resize=629%2C629&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"629\" height=\"629\" alt=\"March 12, 2014 at 01:28PM\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will I make it? Only time will tell. I&#8217;ve already missed a few weekend days in the first month. I&#8217;m not perfect. It&#8217;s not about perfection. It&#8217;s about taking pictures and sharing them.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a programmer or anything fancy so I used a simple solution. I turned it <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\">https:\/\/ifttt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I take all my photos with my iPhone, so I started there. First, I needed to differentiate March2March photos from the rest.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/peroty\/13571987174\" title=\"April 01, 2014 at 08:21PM by Carl Holscher, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2855\/13571987174_506ff3d209_c.jpg?resize=629%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"629\" height=\"472\" alt=\"April 01, 2014 at 08:21PM\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then IFTTT takes over. I used a recipe to post from that album to Flickr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/view_embed_recipe\/158602-iphone-album-to-flickr\" target = \"_blank\" class=\"embed_recipe embed_recipe-l_22\" id= \"embed_recipe-158602\"><img src= 'https:\/\/ifttt.com\/recipe_embed_img\/158602' alt=\"IFTTT Recipe: iPhone album to Flickr connects ios-photos to flickr\" width=\"370px\" style=\"max-width:100%\"\/><\/a><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src= \"\/\/ifttt.com\/assets\/embed_recipe.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This will post the photo to my public Flickr stream and tag is with <em>March2March<\/em> and <em>Project65<\/em>. Now that the photo is somewhere I can easily find it later. Then I share it using this recipe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/view_embed_recipe\/158603-flickr-to-tumblr\" target = \"_blank\" class=\"embed_recipe embed_recipe-l_16\" id= \"embed_recipe-158603\"><img src= 'https:\/\/ifttt.com\/recipe_embed_img\/158603' alt=\"IFTTT Recipe: Flickr to Tumblr connects flickr to tumblr\" width=\"370px\" style=\"max-width:100%\"\/><\/a><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src= \"\/\/ifttt.com\/assets\/embed_recipe.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;t trigger because my phone has to be on WiFi for it to fire due to cellular data usage.<\/p>\n<p>But it works well enough for me and allows me to easily <a href=\"peroty.tumblr.com\/tagged\/March2March\">share a photo I take <em>nearly<\/em> everyday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/peroty\/13243151574\" title=\"March 18, 2014 at 08:45AM by Carl Holscher, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7097\/13243151574_3b0201d880_c.jpg?resize=629%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"629\" height=\"472\" alt=\"March 18, 2014 at 08:45AM\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like long projects. I like them because it&#8217;s a fun challenge to keep something going. That said, I dislike starting from January 1st. There&#8217;s so much going on the first of the year. 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