Thursday, March 23, 2017

Once Around on Instagram

So yesterday marked five years since I completed the project. For the past year I've been posting a photo each week for "Throwback Thursday" on Instagram which has been both a pleasant voyage of rediscovery and a reminder of how I never want to do such a project again! The first photo I posted in the series was the unfurling trillium, a photo that garnered all of 14 likes :-) However, my following on Instagram (such that it is) has increased a little since then, so I'm already up to 34 likes on the final photo! Yay! Go me, eh?

Alas, Instagram doesn't make it easy to show all the photos I posted from this project. While I did use "#OATS" and "#OnceAroundTheSun" tags, they were also used, alas, by many other people for all sorts of random photos. Sure go ahead and look at #oncearoundthesun and you'll see my photos in the mix. It would be interesting to see if anyone could identify my photos based on style alone. I know that they stick out like a sort thumb to my eyes, but that's because I know them so well. With a more neutral eye, I'm almost tempted to still say yes because so many of the tagged photos are just so different to mine, but maybe you should judge for yourself.