Last year I embarked upon a 365-day photo project. The premise was simple, take one photo a day, every single day of the year. It sounded easy enough, after all what's one photo? But as we all know most things are easier said than done. What started out as a "just for fun" recreational activity ended up a "stress-filled" roller coaster ride fueled by the tension of looming deadlines, expectations of a growing online fan-base, and pressure from the greatest critic of all, myself.

This photo, taken on April 27, 2010 and many others like it, was shot in the wee-hours of the morning. I would not, could not sleep until I had taken my photo for the day. Once even I remember waking up in middle of night, as if from a nightmare, due to the realization that I had not taken a photo at all. I set out on this journey thinking to myself that the lesson I needed to learn was that there is beauty in each circumstance, if you only open your eyes to look. But after the year was over I had learned so much more, lessons in tenacity and determination, patience, self discovery, and how even the most crappiest of emotions can be tapped into creating something beautiful.

Hope springs eternal. Each day the sun rises is a chance to live life to the fullest." Those were the words I wrote down to accompany this photo when I posted it last year. As I read it back today I couldn't help but think about the recent "end of the world scare". Last Sunday, after Saturday had come and gone with the world still in one piece, a friend told me of how her mom had called her a few days before horrified and wanting to know if the rumors of the end of the world were indeed true. As silly as it may have been, the rumor got the online world into a reflective mood. Today on Facebook a friend asked would you want to know the date and time of your death? But whether its the end of life or the end of the world, instead of spending too much time worrying about "when" let's not forget about "now" and how each day as the sun rises we have an opportunity to live the best last day of our life.