So, here are my guidelines (now elevated to a page)

I’ll take, and post, just one shot each day. No retakes, no processing, no sharpening, no cropping, and resizing only for this blog. That means I’ll shoot in small JPG, fine quality, and that all I’ll need for storage is 1 GB, for two years’ worth of shots. I’ll also post how frequently I need to charge the battery (full power on Day 1, August 21st 2014). (Second edit – battery has dropped down to the last segment of the display, Day 45, October 4th 2014). (Third edit – battery now empty, Day 68, October 27th 2014, although I took an additional 30 shots yesterday, so I would probably have had another couple of weeks out of it).

I’ll shoot fully manual. The lens is an M42 mount, and so that’s manual focus and manual aperture anyway, so I’ll just adjust shutter speed in camera, balancing it with an appropriate ISO.

I’ll not use flash, just whatever light is available, so if that means high ISO, grain, or blur, I’ll run with it. And perhaps some home-made reflectivity, if a card or piece of foil is about.

I’ll use colour or mono, my choice at the time.

I’ll not use a tripod, just whatever support might be available to me at the time. I have steady hands, so can normally gain a couple of stops over the rule of thumb for focal length (55 mm in this case) and shutter speed.

No fancy filters, aside from a coated UV for protecting the lens, and I’ve also found an old polariser that I might use outdoors. But no grads/stars etc.

If business or domestic circumstances mean I can’t be online, I’ll take a shot anyway, and upload it when I can.

No themes, or topics. Just because it’s December 25th, it doesn’t have to be a red bauble against green pine.