THE END OF A YEAR IN ONE PLACE
(Originally posted on the website Heron Flight)
From April 1, 2004 until today, I worked on a daily photo project which I titled “A Year in One Place.” There is a field about 100 feet from my house. On the opposite side of the field is a stream. My goal was to take a photo of this end of the field every day for a year. The photo to the left is a reminder that I put in my car. It now has such character that everyone in the family has agreed that I need to leave the reminder there for good. Yes, I sometimes eat bananas in the car.
Here are some highlights from a year of taking daily photos in this place:
- April 12 – garbage appears (maybe a cardboard box) and is visible until May 17
- April 21 – new leaves are noticeable on the trees
- April 29 – first wildflowers appear
- May 12 – trees are noticeably full
- May 18 – the stream is no longer visible
- June ? – the first time someone asked me why the hell I was taking pictures there every day
- June 18 – wheat begins to turn brown
- July 1 – first photo taken by someone other than myself (guest photographers included Hannah, Maddy, Tim, Kayla, Arissa)
- July 6 – wheat is harvasted
- July 6 – first two of three vehicles appear
- September 4 – first photo missed because someone forgot while I was out of town
- September 15 – third vehicle
- September 18 – field is flooded
- September 21 – trees begin to appear noticeably thinner
- October 13 – leaves begin to change colors
- October 19 – first time I forgot
- Total number of days missed – 9
- Total out of the 9 that are on a misplaced disk somewhere – 3
- November 4 – first frost
- November 10 – leaves nearly gone
- November 28 – stream is visible again
- December 27 – first snow
- January 22 – first photo taken during a snow storm
- February 1 – first footprints in the snow
- February 18 – first (and only) dog appears bringing the first (and only) human along with her
- March 5 – my shadow is in the picture
- March 24 – last time it snowed
- March 31 (day 365) – first time a police officer stopped and asked what I was doing. I told him, “Nothing now. I’m finished.”
CLICK HERE to see the Year in One Place photo project.