Screenshot from Taylor McKnights' Project 365

On this week's show we talked about Photojojo's tips for taking a photo a day to see your life in a whole new way. Photo projects can be really interesting and revealing, and they are wonderful to look back on year from now. Plus, you get to feed your creative side!

Taylor McKnight turned his daily photo project into a full-blown website and wrote up a series of tips on Photojojo, from which I'm excerpting a few below. For the full list of tips and how-to's, check out the original site:

Bring Your Camera Everywhere
Yes, everywhere. Get in the habit. Grocery stores, restaurants, parties, work, and school. Going to a movie theatre? Snap a pic of the flick with your phone-there are photo-ops everywhere. If you have one of those tiny tiny cameras, you have no excuse not to have it in your pocket all the time. And if you don't? Camera phones are a great substitute.

Make Posting Easy
You can install blog software like Movable Type or Wordpress on your own site and create an entry for each photo, but for true ease of use, try a photo sharing site. Flickr will let you post a week's worth of photos in 2 minutes flat, and fotolog and Photoblog.com are geared toward a photo-a-day workflow. Making it fast and easy means you're much more likely to do it.

Vary Your Themes
Try to capture the day's events in a single photo. Perform photographic experiments. Take a photo of someone new you meet, something you ate for the first time, or something you just learned how to do. Take a photo of something that made you smile. And don't forget to take a photo of yourself at least once a month so you can remember how you've changed, too.

Don't Stop, No Matter What
This is perhaps the most important tip of all. You will get tired of taking a photo every single day. Some days, you will consider giving up. Don't. The end result is worth the effort. Remind yourself why you wanted to do it in first place.

Self as Not So Well Hidden Body by Vu Bui on Flickr

Being creative with your photos can be a challenge, so keep it to a doable level. Our friend Vu Bui started a fantastic series of self-portraits that were really imaginative and provocative (check the photo posted above), but might have been too ambitious to do daily.

divine intervention by Steve Woolf on Flickr

I'm guilty of the same mistake -- last year I started a series of self-portraits (an example embedded above) where I was inserting my face onto a tv or film character using Photoshop. I started daily, but quickly ran out of steam.

218/365 by ericarhiannon on Flickr

The projects that seem to last are the ones where the person varies the subject (as per Taylor McKnight's suggestions). For example, the photo above from Erica Hampton.

If you're doing a daily photo project in 2009, let us know where you're collecting all the images. We're going to build a tracker page to follow the people working on their daily project as inspiration to others who want to give it a try!