gator photo of the day (the first one).

First day of the fall semester was today, and I was up early for an 8:30 class. As the girlfriend dropped me off, I walked down Stadium Road, looked up, and saw fog enveloping the top of Century Tower. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time before class to get a better shot (it IS the first day, so I should arrive early) but did get a nice shot of the hill leading up to the center of campus and our icon. Despite the not-awesome quality of the shot, because it is the icon of the University, the first Gator Photo of the Day is this:

Gator Photo of the Day: 23 Aug '10.

 

–jl–

A new photography project.

Well, hello again, blog world. It’s been about a year since I’ve updated this thing. Since you last heard from me, I successfully and stressfully completed another school year, joined a barbershop chorus or five, sang in front of 10,000 people (in one room), took about four roadtrips across very different parts of the country, and slowly began my search for a graduate school in my program, which will not be where I am now. (Sorry, UF.) None of that right now… maybe you already know about it, maybe I’ll divulge in another post.

BUT! The reason why I’m kicking this thing back into gear is a new “school-year resolution” I made. This is my senior year at the University, and I’ve had a blast here my first three years. Unfortunately, I’ve got to go after this year to continue my studies, and cannot effectively do so where I am now. It also doesn’t exactly make sense for me to stay here, considering the life goal I have of living and working up north. But I do love this place so so so much. So how am I supposed to take a piece of UF with me when I leave, besides where the Orange and Blue faithfully every weekend in the fall?

I’ve recently been reading, and been inspired by, some friends who also write blogs and are better at keeping up on it than I am. And one of the blogs I came across is from my good friend Bridget. She has challenged herself to take a picture every day of the year (minus five… but I’ll let her explain that for you). She then posts her “Picture of the Day” on her blog with a nice little explanation of why she chose that picture as the one. To see what I’m talking about, visit http://photo360.wordpress.com.

Here’s my spin-off of that idea: I’m going to take my camera onto campus every day for the entire school year (fall and spring semester, 2010-11). Every day I’m going to take pictures of things. It could be people, buildings, scenery, whatever. Then I’m going to choose one of those pictures as the “Gator Photo of the Day.” And I’ll post it here and into a Facebook album, with a tidy little explanation here, and a link on Facebook to each individual post.

So this blog will (re-)start up with a post a little later today with a picture. If you’re inspired or like the idea, please start your own! This idea certainly isn’t copyrighted or anything. I hope.

–jl–