Absolutely the whole point of doing either a 365-Day Project or a 52-Week project is the commitment to stay the course the entire year and to shoot something new each and every day or each and every week, and that is how one becomes much more familiar with their camera and lenses and and what they can do with the gear. When I did the 52-Week project I shot more than once a week, not always every day, but often I did shoot daily, too (kind of a habit left over from the 365 project!) and I usually shot several images, sometimes several per day, depending upon the situation, my time, etc. I will say that it IS a lot easier for someone who is not busy with a lot of other obligations (work, school, volunteering with organizations, etc.) to do this kind of project! We do only have 24 hours in each day.....
One thing which is nice about our POTD thread here and our competitions is that we can use archive photos, which is really helpful when someone has a lot of archived files and not necessarily a lot of time right now to be shooting currently. When I first returned to the POTD thread after an absence of a few years I stuck my toe in the water with archived photos, while starting to shoot again, then gradually began shooting more and more and eventually was posting mostly fresh new images.
This brings up a question, though: Molly, what are your thoughts about cross-posting in both the 52-Week project and the POTD? My inclination would be to say a resounding NO to that and to post only the new images shot for the 52-Week project in the designated thread for that, and NOT to cross-post the same image(s) in the POTD. Actually, I'm not sure of what MR's policies are on cross-posting, anyway, and if they don't permit it, there's our answer.
