Pictures

So I officially started my 365-day photo challenge (#37) on December 31st.  It seemed appropriate since that was the one-year mark for starting the whole 101 in 1001 project.  But, obviously, you have not seen any photos on here!  Well, I was trying to figure out how best to archive the photos and make sure that it was easy for anyone who was interested to see them and follow the flow of the days.  I initially started out with Picasa and within an hour or two decided that I hated it.  I also accidentally deleted a bunch of pictures off my blog and had to repost them.  It was not a good time.  Picasa is officially not part of my happy place.

So, I have been searching the web for another site.  This resulted in my opening accounts on several different sites, posting a couple of pictures, deleting the pictures, and cancelling my accounts.  I went back to Picasa and this time noticed that just in the course of the past year, I have already used up 16% of the allotted free storage space!  Well that was a shocker, and I quickly realized that there was no way I could post 365 photos plus all the other photos that I would normally post just as part of the regular blog without completely filling up the space.  And I had already read about someone else's nightmare story where they lost all the photos off their blog because of that exact problem.  I must have my camera set for a high resolution, so most of my photos are kind of large on the memory side.

Finally, this evening, I came across another article that mentioned Wordpress and the fact that they give you 3GB of free storage space (compared the 1GB on Blogger/Picasa -- because, yes, they are tied together, even if you didn't realize it, which I did not).  After giving it a trial run, the uploading process is definitely faster on Wordpress, and it's much easier to add captions.  So the result is that I have created a separate blog on Wordpress to be used strictly for the 365 day photo challenge.  As it stands right now, each post will be titled with the date of the photo and have a brief caption.  Then if I want to tell more of a story about a particular photo, I will post it here and blog about it.  Confused yet?  Welcome to my world!  At any rate, here is the link to my new companion blog...  http://thelist365photos.wordpress.com/.  If anything changes, I'll be sure to let you know!  Oh, and feel free to post comments about the photos on either blog.