The Challenge: A Year in 100 Photographs

I am faced with a difficult challenge: a year in 100 photographs.

Before I left Ms. Kirkey was kind enough to prepare for me a photo album with a collection of photos of friends and family. I kept this photo album on my coffee table the entire time I was in Germany. It was a great reminder of the people who help to make my life what it is.

The album also happened to be half-empty, allowing the perfect opportunity to fill the album with photos from my year abroad. I just counted the pages and there is space for about 100 photos. I wasn’t photo crazy most of the time I was there, but I have lots of photos among:

• in and around my flat
• the chicken castle
• Built to Spill in Stutgart
• a sloppy joes party
• a pigeon festival
• my Kinder Surprise advent calendar
• a 1FCK match
• the Karlsruhe Christmas market
• the XXL restaurant
• Skiing at Mehliskopf
• London, Paris, and Germany with Katy
• visiting at mine and castle at Neuenbürg
• Munich, Prague, Strasbourg, Blackforest, and Zurich photos with Evan, MK, and Zout
• Canada Day and barbecuing in Germany
• the Alpencross
• my trip to Madrid to see NIN
• the Porsche museum
• the Canadian Memorial at Vimy Ridge
• road trip to Brussels, and
• my trip to Berlin

I don’t know how I can condense this to 100 photographs. So far my best idea is to do so using people–minimize the inclusion of photos don’t don’t include people I’d like to remember–but I still think I’ll be left with too many photos to fit in the album.

It’s too bad I wasn’t married to a photo-crazy woman who would just take care of this for me. This would make my life ten times easier in this respect.