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Story and photos by Bob Eckert

​A couple of years ago my oldest daughter, Emma, started sending me a photograph she would take each day. She had been posting them on a dedicated Facebook page and since I don’t do social media, she took the time to email me a photo each day.
 
I thought since she was taking the time to send images to me, I would reciprocate by initiating my own daily series.
 
The project was called “Pic of the Day,” and was inspired by a photographer Emma had discovered on the Internet.
 
Emma came across the work of a photographer Kindra Nikole online. Nikole’s web page read: “Artist focusing primarily on surreal and fantastical photography. Located in the Seattle, WA area.” The description captivated Emma.
 
“She was finishing up a photo-of- the-day series, and had some really amazing stuff,” Emma said. “She also put quotes and even music selections to listen to while viewing the photos. Her work inspired me to create my own photo of the day series.”
 
Coming up with a photo per day may seem like an easy task, but when you think that you want to come up with an image that is worth sharing with others, it becomes a bit more difficult. You are putting yourself and your thoughts — visual and verbal — out there to be judged. In addition to posting the photos online, Emma wanted to add some sort of text.
 
“I used quotes to give another aspect to the photos, to give some insight into the thought process I was having looking at the photo – sometimes it would be obvious why I chose the quote, other times not as apparent,” she says. “More often than not, I’d use quotes to accompany the photos. Occasionally, I’d write something of my own, or not have any text and let the photo speak for itself. Sometimes I felt like the quote made the photo – in that the photo was sort of mediocre, but the quote made it funny or interesting in a different way,” Emma explained and then added, “yes, not every single day of the project turned out a fantastic photo – it was a learning process, and part of it was accepting what I’d gotten. If the shots from the day were so-so, that was what I had to work with.
 
She admits that the hardest part of the project was staying motivated and finding new subjects to photograph in the same place, often in and around her home.
 
“It really gave me an opportunity to look at things in a whole new light — that’s a photographer’s joke, ha ha. Noticing details in things that I may had taken for granted, or observing things at different times of day were key to developing new images from familiar surroundings,” she said.
 
And the easiest?
 
“Some days, something would just happen, and I knew that it would 
be perfect for the pic of the day. For example, on St. Patrick’s Day, I came home to find a green butterfly sitting just outside my door, waiting for me to take its photo — or for the wind to die down. Some days, the images were just waiting for me, in the situations that I encountered. Those were the best days, the best images, rather than the ones I tried to make happen. I began to go out thinking, ‘what great opportunity is going to present itself to me today?’ Most days I got something in response. Some days not.”
 
With that bit of backstory, I thought I’d share some of the images (below) I sent to Emma during our reciprocal Pic of the Day experiment.

Some Pics of the Day from 2021

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To contact Bob Eckert for assignments, consultations or workshops, please email bobeckertphotography@yahoo.com
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    • Abiquiu Dam
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    • Aerial Photos
    • Aircraft - BW Portraits
    • Albuquerque Aquarium
    • Albuquerque Sunport Lowrider Show
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    • Amish, Kalona, Iowa
    • Angel in Albuquerque
    • Astro Zombies Murals
    • Birds
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    • Black Mesa, San Ildefonso Pueblo
    • Cabezon Peak
    • Car Portraits
    • Cell Phones
    • Cerro Pedernal
    • Chicano Park Murals
    • Children Portraits
    • Churches
    • Circus Behind the Scenes
    • Colors
    • Computers
    • Concorso Santa Fe
    • Contrast
    • Descansos
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    • Detroit Street Photos
    • Dogs
    • Explora Albuquerque
    • Fisheye Lens Photos
    • Gay Pride Parade
    • Ghost Ranch
    • Goggles Sunglasses and Masks
    • Goofing Around with mime Mark Wenzel
    • Horizont Camera Panoramic Images
    • Humor
    • Industry
    • Infrared Photos
    • Insects
    • International Center of Photography
    • Isolated Trees
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    • Lady of Guadalupe
    • Landscape Photos
    • Lowriders
    • Lowrider Summer
    • Lowriders: Vintage San Francisco Bay Area Show
    • Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
    • Matachines de Alcalde
    • Mirror Images
    • Moon Photos
    • Moving Arts Espanola
    • Moving Landscapes
    • Murals in Espanola, New Mexico
    • New Mexico Press Association 2022 Award Winner
    • New Orleans Street Photography
    • NM Treasures 2023 Calendar Image
    • Northern New Mexico
    • Norteno Artist Portraits
    • Panoramic Photos
    • Photographers
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    • Plants and Flowers
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    • Port of Portland
    • Portraits of Strangers
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    • Repetition in Photos
    • Road to Pedernal
    • San Francisco Chinatown
    • Shadows
    • Snow Photos
    • Still Life Photos
    • San Francisco Street Photos
    • Service People Portraits
    • Shadows
    • Stand Alone Photos
    • Storm and Rain Photos
    • Street Photography
    • The Yin/Yang of Families
    • Trailer Landscapes
    • Trees
    • Urban Landscapes
    • Vintage Ford and Cadillac Manufacturing
    • Vintage - Pre -digital photos
    • Water
    • Widelux F6: First Roll
    • Widelux Panoramic Photos
    • Working
  • Selected Writing/Published
    • Agricultural Profile: Christopher Bassettt: Freshies of New Mexico Farm, Velarde, NM
    • Behind the Scenes at the Circus
    • ​​Book Review: "Orale! Lowrider: Custom Made in New Mexico"
    • Carlton, Oregon
    • Comic Con New Mexico
    • Crosswalk Painting
    • Cumbres Toltec
    • Day of the Dead, Albuquerque's Marigold Parade
    • Fog Smoke Haze in Photos
    • Gordon Tooley, Apple Guru
    • Indian Market Native Costumes
    • In Praise of Kit Lenses
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    • Jeff Brock and Bombshell Betty
    • John Lea's Painted Truck
    • Light Quality
    • Luck in Photography
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    • National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
    • Natural Dyeing with Glenna Dean
    • Pet Store Animal Photos
    • Rio Arriba: A New Mexico County
    • Rocket Heads Jewelry
    • Scale in Photography
    • Shooting Into The Sun
    • Spanapalooza
    • Tibetan Monk Sand Painting
    • Timing in Photography
    • United Farm Workers
    • Variations on a Theme
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    • WWII Reenactment
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