tbaroundtheworld

Five or six years ago I began spending some time perusing photographs on a site called Pbase. It’s a place where thousands of photographers – professional as well as amateur – post their portfolios. Some of the shots you see there are great, some not so. But regardless of vision or technique, it’s always interesting to have a look at the world through other people’s eyes. And it was much better than playing Solitaire as a way to stay awake during all those interminable phone meetings. One of the most common types of galleries you’ll find on the site is the “PAD”, an acronym that took me a while to figure out. It only became obvious when it finally sunk in that each of these collections had precisely 365 photos, in other words – a Picture a Day. The content varies from pictures of teddy bears in exotic places to black and white portraits of someone’s girlfriend to shots of family picnics and flowers. I’ll admit I was intrigued and so I started one on the 1st of July, 2007. I began the e...