I’m just about finished revisiting the “Fifty Project.” The Fifty Project, published in 2001, was a collection of my fifty best photographs made to honor my fiftieth birthday. When updating my website I had to drop a couple of projects because they were created as web galleries in an early version of Lightroom. The “big” images were 500 x 372 pixels. That was nice fifteen years ago, but certainly not appealing on today’s large monitors.
I started out doing a straight up “just like I did it twenty years ago” quickie project. It went well until I thought why not use the skills I learned in the intervening twenty years to make the project much better.
That quickie project turned into something major in terms of improvement in presentation and fun for yours truly. I changed the sequencing of images and added a few stories and the next thing you know, it evolved into a major project.
Why all the changes? It’s really simple. What was good twenty years ago just isn’t good enough today. If you’re better today than twenty years ago then show it.
I’ll put the new project on my website next week as part of the monthly update.
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