The Benefits of Doing Daily Photos With ShutterCal
For the past month or so, I’ve been using ShutterCal to upload a daily photo. ShutterCal then displays photos in an actual calendar format making it easy to look back over the past month of photos. As a person who works from home, I discovered some really neat advantages to doing this that I hadn’t thought of prior to using it:
- It forces me to get out of my PJs and into “real” clothes every day as well as comb my hair. Well, maybe not comb my hair. But I can look back and figure out when I last had a haircut. No more going two months between cuts.
- It acts as a daily journal. I can go back and look at past days and look at the context of the photo for an idea of what I did that day.
- It gets my creative juices flowing…easily. Most of the time I shoot my daily photo simply using the webcam on my MacBook. Easy, but creatively challenging to make each photo different somehow.
- It gets me out and about. Looking back over a monthly calendar of photos, it’s easy to spot trends. If too many photos in a row are me sitting in my house, then it’s time to get out.
These are all great things for someone working from home. If you decide to join me on ShutterCal, you’ll find my calendar here. Let’s be friends! 
Great idea Dave. I am going to check it out, however, I'm not sure me or anyone else wants to see my picture, every day. Thanks for the info.
That's the beauty of it vs. sites like Daily Mugshot: It doesn't have to necessarily be a picture of you. It can be anything representing what you did that day, something you observed, etc. In fact I think I use myself in my pictures too much. I need to get a bit more creative and stop relying so much on my iSight camera.
Man I'd love to see a calendar full of Jimmy Denham masterpieces!