Sunday, September 12, 2010

Blog Idea

I  need a partner for a new blog that I want to create.

Here's the gist of it:
What I'm looking for is a friend that doesn't live in the area or even in the same state or area of the country who knows their way around a camera, camera software or PhotoShop, and Blogger. Weekly, we would agree on a new photo theme (love, up, down, dog, etc.) that we would each take a single photo of. We would then post each of our pictures to the blog. Really, it's as simple as that.

Here's an example:
Let's say we agreed that the theme this week was "Autumn." I would go outside and probably take a picture of yellow leaves on a tree or whatever. The other person (who let's say, lives in Hawaii for fun) would end up taking a completely different picture because they have a completely different climate and culture. They may take a picture of kids on returning to school on a bus. Without discussing the pictures themselves, we would post these pictures to the blog, side-by-side. The next week we agree on a different theme, and so forth.

The idea is to show the difference of location, personal perspective, etc. I think this would be a really neat thing to do. I know it sounds simple and may not make any sense, but once we started, I think it could really be fun and interesting. The great thing about this is that it would be super simple, would not be time consuming, and would showcase creativity and individuality. And if an old friend and I did this, I think it would be a nice bonding thing.

And if it turns out to be super lame, then we'll stop.

I know of two friends that do this in Europe, one in Finland and one in Scotland. They have over 800 followers. I'm not trying to copy them totally, but I think this would be interesting from our point of view... from a completely different country and side of the planet. The images would be unique to us.

Here's a very simple example:

"High"

These photos aren't quality shots, they're just some old vacation photos that I found on my computer, but they work for the theme. They're both examples of "high" from two very different perspectives and locations.

I haven't made the blog yet, this is just the idea stage. So one of us would have to create the blog, and we'd both need the password and login.  We'd also have to come up with the blog title and design. If my partner wants to take care of that, then that's fine, otherwise I can do it. Either way is no problem.  If you're interested, let me know, if you think this is stupid, let me know.



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