My dear readers,

I hereby announce a new project I am going to start next week, on Monday March 14th. I have decided to start my own PAD (Picture-A-Day) project. This will not be an ordinary PAD project though, i.e. I will not simply shoot one picture a day. What I will do is use one camera and one lens for one week each. During each week, I will try and take one picture to share with you each day. In the following week, I will change to a different camera-lens-combination.

Owning two camera bodies with several lenses, here are the possible combinations:

• Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20mm f/1.7 pancake lens
• Olympus E-P1 + M.Zuiko Digital 14-42mm kit-zoom
• Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 45-200mm tele-zoom
• Olympus E-P1 + Cosmicar/Pentax 25mm f/1.4 C-mount TV lens
• Leica M8 + Super Wide Heliar 15mm f/4.5
• Leica M8 + Ultron 28mm f/1.9
• Leica M8 + Nokton 50mm f/1.5

This project will thus keep me going for at least seven weeks. If I decide to also use my E-P1 with my M-mount lenses via an adapter, it’s even ten weeks. But for starters, my goal is to reach seven weeks

I hope that this project will help me to better understand how to use each of my lenses, as well as each of my cameras. I also hope to learn to look for those everyday scenes that get overlooked most of the time because they seem so ordinary — yet at a closer look aren’t necessarily that ordinary at all. I hope to train my eye, my thinking about photography, as well as my skills in general.

As stated above, I will commence with the project on next Monday, March 14th, 2011, starting with the Leica M8 + Nokton 50/1.5. The reason for selecting this combo is that, while regularly shooting the Nokton, I mostly use it on purpose — i.e. when I need to get closer to my subject. I rarely ever take the Nokton with me for “general shooting”, which is the realm of the 28/1.9 Ultron. So right away the project will start with a combo that will force me to think “out of the ordinary”.

I can hardly wait to get started!