Last year I took on a personal project of digitizing my grandparent's 8mm home movies. Ever since I finished, I've been meaning to edit the footage together into a series of vignettes and with the post-Christmas downtime I was able to cut one together tonight.
In 2010 I bought my first Canon DSLR, the 550D/T2i. Prior to that I had been shooting Nikon and so to get familiar with the Canon system I gave myself a goal of shooting 31 different cities sometime during the 31 days that were in the month of July. I took three snapshots of each city and I tried to keep the content and perspective focused on things that we usually find right under our nose, but don't always stop to look at. During that month I was able to cover cities in Utah, Michigan, South Dakota, Colorado, Nevada, and California. I guess you can say I'm a bit of an exploration junkie. Some of the cities (or really really really small towns - I used the term "city" very loosely) I went to by myself, as little day trips. The whole Colorado section was a road trip I took with my friend Emma for the sole purpose of the project. I had never really explored Colorado before, and living in Utah it seemed like as good a time as any to cross the Eastern border. I documented the process at 31in31.tumblr.com and included a song to what I was currently listening to at the end of each post. That playlist can be found on Spotify here.
RIGHT after I finished the project, my hard drive died. Crashed. RIP. Pictures gone forever. At first I was heartbroken, but then I realized that since I had blogged everything, I still had the images that alluded to the memories (albiet in low-tumblr-resolution). That was about the time that I started this blog (and backing up to multiple drives), as a more permanent place to document the visuals that matter most to me.
Here are those images, in chronological order:
1/31 Salt Lake City, UT
2/31 Ogden, UT
3/31 Detroit, MI
4/31 Sioux Falls, SD
5/31 Roy, UT
6/31 Santaquin, UT
7/31 Nephi, UT
8/31 Mona, UT
9/31 Heber, UT
10/31 Park City, UT
11/31 Thistle, UT
11/31 Mill Fork, UT
13/31 Helper, UT
14/31 Grand Junction, CO
15/31 Delta, CO
16/31 Olathe, CO
17/31 Montrose, CO
18/31 Ouray, CO
19/31 Bedrock, CO
20/31 Moab, UT
21/31 St. George, UT
22/31 Las Vegas, NV
23/31 Calico, CA
24/31 La Jolla, CA
25/31 Julian, CA
26/31 Camp Pendleton, CA
27/31 Oceanside, CA
28/31 Spanish Fork, UT
29/31 Farmington, UT
30/31 Highland, UT
31/31 Layton, UT
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