99.45%!

One year ago today, on a whim, I thought I'd take a photo every day for the year of 2013. So three hundred and sixty three photos later and I'm very glad that I did; I'm left with a brilliant collection of memories (except for the 18th of July and 13th of August - lost to memory for ever) and it's the first New Year's resolution I've ever kept (I'm counting 99.45% as complete...)

I've loved looking back and seeing all the things I've done, people I've spent time with and places I've gone through winter in the snow, spring in the rain, summer in the sun (with some ripped shorts) and back through to autumn again.

Clear highlight of 2013 was getting married, although I also had a lot of fun graduating and starting work, going on an epic and outstanding stag do in Barcelona with a fantastic bunch of guys, some weekend munro bagging and some longer highland hiking as well as several weekend jaunts to Northern Ireland, not to mention a first married Christmas with matching jumpers.
Also a brilliant holiday in Nepal with beautiful surroundings, friendly and exotic animals and insects and of course getting to see my parents again.

Doing this project for the year has really helped me learn more about photography - from several horrendously boring attempts in the early months, through at least 23 runs (with my camera) up Edinburgh hills (through morning, noon and night) and going on photography day courses. My photos swung from multiple attempts at "spontaneous photos" to finally bowing to pressure and getting a smartphone for genuinely spontaneous photos.

I'm not going to do this again for 2014. I hope to keep putting up photos when they're genuinely good (not difficult when you have someone this photogenic around all the time...) but not panicking at 5 minutes to midnight and taking a photo just for the sake of it. Plenty of opportunities will come up I'm sure, especially with a trip to Canada planned to visit my sister and brother-in-law. Thanks for my friends and family being so patient and posing for photos with frozen smiles, for the helpful and humorous comments, and for encouraging me to focus on all the brilliant little moments of every day.