Michael E. Bérubé's Photo-A-Week Page

2001 CE

Click HERE for the 2002 CE PAW PROJECT

Here is a fun exercise that Kyle Cassidy (link at bottom of page) shamed many of us LUGgers into at the dawn of the Millenium. This 'project' was an attempt to actually justify the expense of the better quality equipment (Leica & Voigtländer, and finally Nikon) that I'd been accumulating by using it all to try and produce at least ONE nice image each week throughout the 2001 CE calendar year. I didn't always manage an actual good photograph but I did place one here as a self punishment of sorts urging me to do better the next week.

I will also attempted to compose one Haiku each week that tied in with the main image choice and more importantly tried to write a Haiku that didn't entirely suck. I didn't think that I did as well with the poetry as I did with the photos, but some PAW viewers really seemed to miss the poems when I wasn't able to come up with something right away. Re-reading some of it though I think that maybe I shouldn't quit my day job just yet.

All in all I learned quite a bit about my casual photography and this project helped me actually shoot more when someone isn't actually paying me to do so. (Something that I had moved too far away from in years prior to the PAW.) I extend my eternal thanks to the many many LUGgers, LEGgers, CVUGers, RFGroupers and the few MFNikon listers who posted valuable feedback for me on these images. Each comment meant a lot and I learned something by being able to look at my images through your eyes. I will leave it all up for a while as it is a pretty good record of my life in small town Maine this last first year on the 21st Century. Enjoy.