On the way home from work, I thought about the 365Project a bit more.  I have resolved a few things and brought up a few more.

Photo Hosting:  I think, for now, I’ll continue to host my photos on Flickr.  When I get my pro account later this year, that will give me enough space and freedom to not worry about the 200 photo limit imposed by the free account.

Lightroom vs Photoshop:  For now, I’ll stick with Lightroom.  With 98% of the post-processing power I need and the ability to store, import, catalog and maintain all of my photos in one application, I don’t feel the need to rely on Photoshop CS5.  Maybe that will change during the year, we’ll see.

Where to Hold the Project:  This is one of the new things that I thought about.  I’ve thought about housing it completely in Flickr, but quickly dismissed that as I want more control over the “presentation”.  Because of that, I think I’ve also pretty much eliminated most of the online free services as well.  And since I’ve already spent a bunch of money simply getting the camera, I don’t think I want to spend any additional money for monthly hosting fees.

So that brings me to hosting it myself.  I can do that simply enough, right here in this blog, but honestly this blog has started to become all about photos and not about myself, or tech, or any of the other things I set out wanting it to be.  No, I think I want the 365project to be a completely different entity.  This means a sub-domain and the software to do the posting.  To start off, I think I’ll simply create another WordPressblog and use a different, minimal-type theme in dark and dedicate it solely to presenting the photos, thoughts, inspirations and struggles of the project.

Doing it this way, I honestly think it’ll only need one plugin – the Flickr Gallery.  Again, time will tell, but I think that’s where I’m starting.

When to Start:  Speaking of starting, that’s the next thing I need to decide.  I definitely have to wait until the new site is up, but that really will only take a day or two.  Should I start Sept 1?  Should I wait until 2011?  I’m still wresting with that, but I don’t think I want to wait until next year.  I’ll think about that a bit more.

Workflow:  I still need to decide on this.  My biggest concern is backups and how/where to store the photos long term.

I’ve got a lot to think about still, but I’m ready to get foundation built.  Stay tuned here for links to the project site.  I really hope this works out.