December 14, 2002
New Photo Project
Recently I got an Exilim EX-M2 digital camera. It's the size of a credit card, the thickness of a matchbox, and only weighs as much as a watch. It takes decent enough photos, and has a nice interface to quickly and easily dump the pictures to my PC. MoveableType picks up from there, having a nice wizard to take photos and turn them into entries.
We were at the market eating chicken rice today and I was snapping furtive photos. It struck me how easy the whole process was. That led me to the idea for a month-long project to take one photo every day 'in the wild' as I am going about my normal business. Since it is so easy and unobtrusive, it's the closest thing to a fly-on-the-wall I can get.
Today's photo is the chicken rice lady taking Ling's order. Pleasingly, with the flash off (to avoid attention), the camera was still able to get a reasonable, although a bit blurry, shot. Of course I was holding the camera spy-style, not looking through the viewfinder.