My development as a photographer has stalled recently. I must admit the weather here hasn’t been particularly conducive to getting outside and taking some shots of interesting things, but that’s really just an excuse. What I need is a project of some sort.

I’ve told people that I’m keen to work on my portraiture, but I’m always a little shy about asking people if I can take photos of them. What I’m going to do, then, is take photos of myself. I can’t really say no to myself. Not if I ask myself nicely, anyway.

So what I’ll be doing for the 366 days following my 30th birthday (2012 will be a leap year!) is to take a self-portrait every day. This is going to be challenging, as making 366 interesting self-portraits is going to involve a fair bit of imagination.

I won’t limit myself to any particular camera, although I have just bought some accessories for my 550D that will make self-portraiture a little easier (a gorillapod and a wireless remote!).

Now this project won’t be starting for a little under a month and I haven’t decided on some logistics, like whether I’ll post the photos to flickr or Facebook (I don’t want to spam my flickr photostream with photos of myself!). Watch this space for developments… First photo will be on the 2nd of August.