Its Day 3 of 2011 so if you haven’t already started, you’re late!

Daily Image 2011 on Flickr invites you to document your life over the year, with an image per day.

So what’s it all about and why?

(the following is blatantly lifted from Kathryn’s blog – Librarians Matter)

WHAT?
One photo/video/drawing each day with yourself in it, uploaded to Flickr.

HOW?

You do not have to create the image, but you do need to be in it somewhere – hand, slight image in mirror, photo of self on PC screen in background…

If you don’t manage one photo per day, feel free to add what you can when you can… but only one photo from each day.

WHY?

I got as far as 281 photos doing this in 2009 and was really confronted by the choices I had to make about how I presented myself. Did I always want to show myself as a healthy, cheery sort of person? How much of the ugly and everyday was I prepared to show?

I discovered that – contrary to my comfort level – photos with myself smiling really *did* look better. This freaked me out, as I always thought that forcing myself to smile looked worse than showing something “genuine”. This flowed on to my everyday life where I started smiling at other people more…

There is a Daily Image 2011  group pool RSS feed. There is also a Twitter account that is feeding out each image as it is added: Daily Image 2011 Twitter Feed.

(end of blatant copy and paste)

I thought I’d try it out and then didn’t think I’d be able to do it, but have decided that even if I don’t manage it every day, it will be fun to give it a go.

Why not join up yourself, see which of your friends have taken up the challenge and check us out over the year.

Happy image posting!