About

This is my attempt at the 365 Photo Challenge, where you shoot and post a picture every day for the year.

My first year was 2025, and I started 28 days late, so it was a building/testing year to see if I could cement the habit of taking a daily photo.

The challenge continues in 2026, and I hope it’s a perfect posting year!

If you want to learn more about me, you can find that here.

General Rules I’ve Set Up for Myself

1. Take One Photo Every Day

   • The core rule of the challenge is to take and share one photograph per day for 365 consecutive days. Build the habit and train your eye to always look for photos. Daily practice makes you better. Looking back at my early photography, I cringe at shots and processing decisions. But through that process comes improvement.

2. Original Work Only

   • I must take and process the photo. Because of work and life, I sometimes use shots from other days or my archives for the daily photo. The intent is a photo from that day.

3. Editing Allowed

   • Editing photos is allowed and encouraged. It’s your art. Make the photo into what you want it to be.

4. Missed Days

   • If I miss a day, I can take two photos the next day to make up for it, but the goal is always to post one shot daily.

5. Cameras

   • Like they say, the best camera is the one you have with you. The camera doesn’t matter; most shots are on iPhones, and the focus is on the photography, not the equipment. Other equipment includes a Nikon F3, D500, D810, Z8, Rolleiflex, and OM Systems OM-1.

6. Have Fun!

   • No stress. This project is about having fun with your photography, pushing your limits, inspiring, learning, and growing as a hobbyist photographer.

Creative Guidelines

1. Experimenting with Styles

   • Explore different genres of photography like landscapes, portraits, macro, or street photography.

2. Push Yourself

   • Challenge your skills by shooting in different lighting conditions, angles, or camera settings. Experiment heavily.

3. Focus on Storytelling

   • Use the photos to tell a story about your day or capture a meaningful moment. Family life, outdoors, and crew life will be focus areas.

Follow along

In a feed reader, just add 365pixels.xyz and it finds the feed by itself. Or use the address directly: 365pixels.xyz/feed.xml (RSS), also as JSON Feed.

Just one camera, or film? The Feeds page has a feed for each category, from iPhone to Polaroid film.

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New to feeds? aboutfeeds.com explains what an RSS feed is and how to use it.

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365Pixels runs on Micro.blog, which builds it with Hugo. The theme is Jim Mitchell’s mnml, with my own “Mono365” CSS on top, the same black and white as cliff538.com: white on black by default, or black on white with the Light/Dark switch at the top. The text is mnml’s GT Walsheim, and the 365Pixels wordmark and the motto at the bottom are set in Fraunces. Click a photo in a post to step through all of its photos; or click Stray Pixels to see the day’s other photos.

Tinylytics counts the page views above and runs the Send Some Love button on each post. The Stats page comes from the Post Stats plug-in, the Feeds page from Robb Knight’s Micro.blog Feeds, and the email link under each post from Sven Dahlstrand’s Reply by email.