Andrew Brennan

[See on Smugmug]

I’m taking a photo every day (or thereabouts) for 2010 again. It’s a great way to remember what I do and when I do it. For this third year of daily photos, I’m still trying to improve my workflow to ensure it remains a fun hobby and doesn’t become a chore.

I use an Eye-Fi card to copy photos from my camera to my computer. I know it isn’t that much more effort to pop the SD card out of the camera and place it into my card reader, but it does make a difference when you’re copying photos often. I have the older ‘Home’ version, which doesn’t post photos automatically to the internet; I like to give my photos a bit of an edit first.

After copying and sorting the photos into folders, I run them through Picasa, editing and starring the best ones to make them daily photos. Then I select the latest starred photos and send them to Smugmug directly from Picasa, where they go into the gallery.

This year I’m attempting to post them on this blog too. I’m experimenting with Tim Linden’s Smugmug Automator plugin. So far it’s just posted the same photo about 20 times, so now it’s time to tinker.

UPDATE: Plugin fail. It doesn’t seem to want to post different photos at regular intervals. Ah well. Thinking of rigging something up with Friendfeed…