Then, I spent some time analyzing the metadata of the pictures, and adding additional tags to the photos.

Finally, I used Photoshop to crop squares out of the pictures, and posted them all in a grid.

Enjoy!

Yes.  Yes it has.

Things have been crazy busy as of late.  There’s been a lot of travel the past two months, especially in August, where I logged over 8,500 miles by airplane.  September, while not as crazy, still had three trips by plane and included a very crazy weekend of moving out of Center City Philadelphia to a new home in King of Prussia, PA.

And even though I haven’t updated the Project 365 site in a while, I’m still taking pictures, and look to hopefully have some spare time in the future to get them all processed and uploaded.

In the meantime, I wrote a feature on my other site, Awesomeopolis, about the new facial recognition features in Picasa 3.5, so you should check that out.

After combing the desert to decide on the pictures, I’ve come up with 36 of them.  Enjoy!

2005 – 4th of July – Philadelphia

2005 – 4th of July – Philadelphia

See more pictures after the jump!

2007 – March 25 – Virginia Tech Ring Dance Midnight Fireworks

2008 – 3rd of July – Manasquan, NJ

2008 – 4th of July – Philadelphia, PA

2009 – 4th of July – Philadelphia, PA

However, one things I have been able to keep up on is my Project 365 site, a photography project I started in January where the goal is to make sure you take a picture every day.

And here it is, July 2, and out of 181 days, I’ve only missed two so far.

You can access the site here and look at things in reverse chronological order. However, one of the great things about doing the pictures in WordPress is that I’ve been able to tag photos so that they can be grouped together into different themes.

For example, here are some of my favorite tags:

• Animal
• Before and After – (Currently only one set, but I’d like to do more)
• Bowling
• Chicken Tikka Faces – (What happens when I play with my food)
• Fail – (For the days when I goof and don’t take a picture, I make a photoshop to commemorate the fail)
• Food – (43 of the pictures from the first half of the year are of food!)
• Outside My Window – (Looking out of my window on the 18th floor of my apartment building)
• Roots – (I had a baby spider plant that I put in a clear glass, and I’ve been taking periodic pictures of it over the past few months.  You can really see the roots develop!)
• Seasons - (The goal is to take a picture from the same spot in Rittenhouse Square during each season, and I have Winter and Spring so far)
• Self-Portrait
• Technology

I’ve also been inspired lately by a story about Jamie Livingston, who took a Polaroid EVERY DAY from 1979 to the day he passed away in 1997.  Mental Floss has a very nice write-up about the site if you’d like to read more about it.  This would be really awesome if I could keep this up for 18+  years.

And, for your viewing pleasure, I’ve used the collage feature of Picasa to put together a quick grid of all the pictures that I’ve taken so far.

Each year residents put up goods and services to auction off in both a silent auction and a live auction, and this year, like every year, was a lot of fun.  Here are some pictures from the event. For some more pictures that aren’t mine, check out Alyssa Rosenzweig’s Picasa album of the event.

I had my camera with me for the intent of getting a good Project 365 picture, but with the structure of Jadwin Gymnasium, they don’t exactly have the court blocked off.  So for the second half of the game, I took my camera and sat on the baseline with other (more legitimate) photographers and snapped away.  Unfortunately I only had my Nifty 50 lens on me, so all the pictures are either really up close or really far away.

By the way, Penn won 62-55 in OT.

Penn during the second-half warmups.

Princeton’s Pawel Buczak (55) looks for an open man.

Penn’s Zack Rosen (1) drives down the court.

Penn’s Glen Miller looks pensive as Penn takes over the lead in the second half.

Penn’s Cameron Lewis (33) tries to bring down the rebound.  The auto-focus didn’t quite capture the shot I wanted, but you can see that Princeton is losing.

Penn’s Glen Miller explains that he would rather be arrested than put up with any more of these terrible calls. (Caption credit to Rhyno)

Princeton’s Marcus Schroeder (21) prepares to inbound.  And also prepares to lose in OT.

Penn’s Zack Rosen (1) reminds the crowd what his jersey number is.

Penn’s Cameron Lewis (33) lays down a dunk.  With authority!

The referees take a time-out during the second half to watch American Idol.  Also, in a double-whammy decision, they decided to eject Penn’s Conor Turley (44) from the game.

Penn’s players kindly point out that Princeton’s Patrick Saunders (22) should have been taking foul shots, and not Dan Mavraides (33).

Penn’s Jack Eggleson (24) drives down the court.

Penn’s Harrison Gaines (22) sets it up from the outside.

Penn waits for Princeton to come back after a time-out.  Even the Quaker looks on impatiently.

And at that point, my camera died, so I don’t have any other photos from the end of the game or during overtime.  Whoops!  Anyway, I hope you enjoyed.

UPDATE: My friend Jerricka is doing her own Project 365, and took a picture of me taking a picture.  This shows you where I was sitting for my shots.

I’ve set up a seperate site which was designed to maximize your picture viewing experience.

So without further ado, Corey’s Project 365:

http://www.coreyhulse.com/365/

Right here on opening day, I’ve currently got four photos up for sale, one of which is the picture I took at the Relay For Life at Penn event last year during the Luminaria ceremony.  With every print I sell, I’m donating a portion of the proceeds to Relay.

So please, check it out, give me feedback, and maybe if you’re feeling saucy you’ll buy some of my photos. There’s also a Store RSS feed for those of you cool enough to use aggregators.

Click here to visit the store!

Also, I’ve updated the blog thrice today. And now, I’m going to bed.