Picture A Day - The Ultimate Guide

Picture a Day Video - 2022

In 2009 I started trying to take a picture every day as a life documentation project.  Every year since I have attempted to take and document a picture for every day of the year.  And I put it into a slideshow at the end of the year with music.

Over the past few years I have been trying to move all my videos to youtube.  I used to host them elsewhere but ran into copyright infringement issues due to using other people's music in the videos and then posting that on the internet.  Youtube mostly allows me to still host my videos here, as long as I don't try to make money off of them, which I was never intending to do.  Of all the videos over the years, there were still two that the copyright owner does not allow to be shown on youtube at all - both Beatles songs.  I had to rebuild both the offending slideshows (from 2009 and 2013) with alternative music choices.  Copyrights and copyright owners change over the years so hoping my original videos will be available again someday. 

So, to make these slideshows available on the internet again, I retooled a bit, many I don't have great copies of anymore, so they may be grainy.  But we can enjoy what there is.

By request I made a slideshow of pictures from 2005-2007 - its kind of boring, but its linked below as well.

Here is playlist on youtube of all slideshow videos - picture a day and a few others I made
Full P365 Playlist 

And videos by year

P365 2022 (above)

P365 2021

P365+1 2020

P365 2019

P365 2018

P365 2017

P365+1 2016

P365 2015

2015 Fast Version

P365 2014

P365 2013

P365+1 2012

P365 2011

2011 Fast Version

P365 2010

P365 2009

Back in Okinawa (2009)

2008 (Not picture a day)

2005 - 2007

The Song List

Songs I've already used for slideshows

2022

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears

Island in the Sun - Weezer

You Get What You Give - New Radicals

2021

The Promise - When in Rome

One Fine Day - The Chiffons

We're Going to Be Friends - The White Stripes

2020
Come On, Get Happy - The Partridge Family
Happy Together - The Turtles
Come Sail Away - Styx

2019
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Just Like Heaven - The Cure

2018
Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
When Can I See You Again - Owl City

2017
Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
Signed, Sealed Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship

2016
Go West - The Village People
Waterloo - ABBA
Come and Get Your Love - Redbone

2015
Love You Madly - Cake
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Best Day of My Life - American Authors

What Does the Fox Say - Ylvis (Fast Version)

2014
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
Destination Unknown - Missing Persons

2013

Remake

I've Just Seen a Face - Paul McCartney and Wings (Live)

Fireflies - Owl City 

Songbird - Eva Cassidy 

Original (currently blocked for copyright)
I've Just Seen a Face - Beatles 

Fireflies - Owl City 

Songbird - Eva Cassidy 

2012 

I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash 

Home - Phillip Phillips 

Home - Michael Buble 

2011

Centerfield - John Fogerty 

Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse 

Pop Goes the World - Men Without Hats (Fast Version) 

2010

Friday I'm in Love - The Cure 

A Little Respect - Erasure 

Pretty Much the Worse Video Ever Made (Dialogue Clip) - Napoleon Dynamite 

2009

Remake

Our House - Madness 

Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode

Original (currently blocked for copyright)

Our House - Madness 

Ob Bla Di Ob Bla Da (Life Goes On) - The Beatles

Back to Okinawa Slideshow

Japan - Presidents of the United States of America 

2008  - Okinawa Year Slideshow

Send Me on My Way - Rusted Root 

Let My Love Open the Door - Pete Townshend

2005 - 2007

If I Had $1,000,000 - Barenaked Ladies

Picture a Day 2020

 

Here is our picture a day video for 2020...and what a year it has been.

Picture a Day 2019

 

This is my picture a day video for 2019.  I made the video last January, but never posted it.

Picture a Day Video 2018

Here is the picture-a-day video for 2018.  It was a busy year for us.  Enjoy and Happy New Year!!

Picture a Day 2016

Here is a video of our 366 pictures from 2016 (it was a leap year).
Nothing fancy this year.  Just pictures.  Enjoy.

Picture a Day 2015

Here is our Picture-a-Day Video for 2015.  What a year it's been!
This video has one picture from each day of the year, plus some videos, so its a little long.
Making this video was a huge pain this year and took many days.  I use iMovie but the latest version of it caused me so much trouble this year I may use something else next year.  Some of my pictures were showing up as just a green screen when I exported the movie so I had to watch through the entire thing many many times to make sure each photo was showing up correctly.  I got so sick of the music that I kept changing it and now it probably seems kind of random.  Anyway, here is the finished video, finally.  If you see a messed up photo tell me.  :)
Some notable events of our year - Matthew got baptized in February.  Scott had his last active duty day in the Air Force in April (and started his new job in CA shortly thereafter).  We moved away from Illinois in May.  We searched for a house several times over the summer and took a trip to Oregon in July.  Anna broke her arm in September - she grimaces every time she sees that photo and wants me to take it out of the video - but I've left it in.  Poor Anna.  And Emma started walking in December.   Please enjoy this review of our year!!

And if you can't bear the thought of watching 9 whole minute of video of us, here is an edited, fast, version (only 3:20 minutes) as a special bonus.
And the music selection on this second one is for my kids.  They can not get enough of this song.

2014 Picture a Day

Well, it only took me an extra nine months or so, but I finally made a picture a day video for 2014.  Things have been very busy with five kids and moving/being in limbo.  Soooo, here it is.  While making the video some of my video clips got automatically put in among the photos - sorted by date. I kind of liked the little clips in there, so I put in a few more.  So watch for those very short video clips.  Also watch for John learning to walk, our quickly growing garden, our summer vacation to the east coast, Anna learning to ride her bike, the arrival of baby Emma in November and Matthew as Santa Claus.  What an exciting year it was!

Picture a Day 2013

Here is a slideshow of our year - one picture for every day.  I've been doing the picture a day thing for five years now.   Yesterday we watched all five years of a picture a day videos - on our big TV (thanks Chromecast).  As I was finishing the 2013 slideshow last night I asked aloud, "why do I do this?" Managing 365 pictures at a time can be a pain.  But Scott reminded me that we just enjoyed watching all five years of videos and it was fun to remember all those fun family adventures we've had.  So here is 2013.  It was sort of a rush job on the video this year.  I just don't have as much time to blog and such, but I still think its of acceptable quality.  :)  And below are links to the video from the other four years.  Happy New Year!

2009 Picture a day video
2010 Picture a day video
2011 Picture a day video
2012 Picture a day video

2012...One Day at a Time

This was originally posted on my personal blog, along with all the picture a day pictures.  Here is our picture-a-day video for 2012.  This video is dedicated to Scott and his many many travels over the past two years (he's been everywhere)...and to those of us who stayed behind.

While reviewing this video - a moment from each day of our lives for the past year - I was reminded that these pictures probably aren't very meaningful to most people, if for no other reason than other people won't know what each little picture represents, or what was happening that day, or what that moment or that day meant in our lives.  So this year I added a few subtitles to some of the days, to guide you through our year.  Of course, I didn't subtitle every meaningful picture, just some of them.

2011 Picture-a-day

You may have seen this on my personal blog already, but here it is again.

This is the third year I've taken a picture a day all year. I wasn't sure I was going to do it this year and I ended up with a lot of pictures of inanimate objects, which seems weird. I also made a video of all 365 pictures for the year.  My song choices are kind of odd this year.  They don't have a lot to do with the pictures. But it is what it is. :) I don't know if I'll keep going with the 365 pictures. It was a little hard to keep up with it this year. We'll see. Anyway, here is our year in pictures. 

Look for us moving into our house in January, Scott getting taken away in an ambulance in February, Grant being born in April and Scott being promoted in July (its just a picture of him in uniform) and pictures from Oregon/Washington in July, Matthew going to his first day of school in August, our visit to Walt Disney World in September and Anna dressed as Minnie Mouse, a mermaid and Dorothy in October.
If you find all the pictures you win a prize: a hearty congratulations from me for watching the whole video.  :)

Hope you all had a great year!!

See the 2010 Picture-a-day video HERE.
See the 2009 Picture-a-day video HERE.

And as a special bonus, here is a second video - the same 365 pictures, but in less than half the time. Don't blink, or you'll miss this one. :)

2010 Picture-a-day

Here is a slideshow of my picture a day project from 2010. It's longish (over 6 minutes) and has music, so don't feel pressured to watch the whole thing. :) Happy New Year!!

To see the 2009 slideshow, go HERE.

A picture a day

I have been taking a picture a day for all of 2009 (you can see them HERE) and now that the year is over, I have all 365 pictures. Here is a slideshow (with music, WARNING!) of ALL those pictures. A year in review.