I decided to take and post a picture every day in January 2020. Since Instagram only works on mobile devices, all the pictures were taken with my iPhone 6 instead of my SLR camera. The only limitation on this project was that i wanted to emulate Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot all of his pictures from his view—meaning that he didn’t stoop or crawl around to find an angle, he simply took a picture from where he was standing.
First picture, January 1, 2020, 2:15 PM. For the first six days, i only took one picture each day. After that i was taking two or three and picking one, mostly because i wanted to have a shot “in the bank” in case i didn’t have time or my phone died later in the day.
January 3, 2020, 7:49 AM. Taken on my hike up to the Sunburst Six chairlift.
January 4, 2020, 4:19 PM. Taken from a seated position (as i was driving, shame on me!)
January 5, 2020, 8:43 AM. Sitting in the Base68 base lodge at Okemo, waiting for lessons.
January 6, 2020, 8:33 AM. I walk past this barrier every morning while walking from the parking lot up to the ski school locker room.
January 7, 2020, 9:09 AM. View from the top of Okemo.
January 8, 2020, 1:31 PM. I felt that this photo wasn’t quite Cartier-Bresson-ish because i was looking up as i took it.
January 9, 2020, 10:11 AM. This one as well, although from a standing perspective, i was looking down.
January 12, 2020, 2:58 PM. This one was taken from a sitting position.
January 13, 2020, 12:21 PM. Lunch in the Wernick House.
January 14, 2020, 11:17 AM. I took this in the middle of a snowboard lesson.
January 15, 2020, 1:10 PM. Halfway there. I left the house today just to get out in the sun to take a picture.
January 16, 2020, 8:35 AM. My friend Jamie slid off the road near my house this morning and i got the local farmers to pull her out with their big front-end loader.
January 17, 2020, 3:43 PM. Late afternoon at Evening Song Farm.
January 18, 2020, 10:56 AM. MLK Weekend Saturday at Okemo.
January 20, 2020, 8:18 AM. Blowing snow for the Okemo halfpipe.
January 22, 2020, 10:37 AM. I’d been wanting to take a picture of these post office boxes since starting this project. This is the only picture i took today. (There’s nothing in my box.)
January 23, 2020, 12:25 PM. You can’t tell, but that’s Neil Peart of Rush on the TV screen in the background.
January 24, 2020, 2:50 PM. I walked over to the Mill River from my house when i got home just to take a few pictures.
January 25. 2020, 3:25 PM. Taken during a snowboard lesson (the little girl directly in front of me).
January 26, 2020, 7:18 AM. Nice sunrise this morning. I stopped by the side of the road to get out and take a couple pictures.
January 27, 2020, 4:46 PM. Spent the day at Killington, snowboarding with an AASI Level 3 prep clinic.
January 28, 2020, 8:48 PM. I wanted to get a picture from winter indoor ultimate league. That’s my friend Nikki throwing the disc.
January 31, 2020, 9:37 AM. Okemo halfpipe.