Every year most people I know – myself included – make those ever so useful New Year’s Resolutions. I think I’ve only ever followed through with one or two in my life!

Photojojo has a great little article titled 22 Photo New Year’s Resolutions for 2009. There’s quite a few good ones:

Get Organized
1. Weed out the chaff
2. Clean up your act
3. Back up!

Show Off
4. Put more photos up
5. Make a book
6. Enter some contests
7. Share your pictures online

Try Something New
8. Use a new technique
9. Switch teams
10. Borrow some new gear
11. Get a different perspective

Do Some Good
12. Donate your old gear
13. Volunteer your talents
14. Teach somebody what you know

Challenge Yourself
15. Go on assignment
16. Do something difficult
17. Brush up on your history

Start a Project
18. Start a year-long project
19. Pick a new project every month
20. Start a new tradition
21. Make a time capsule

Take your camera everywhere
22. Take your camera everywhere

My biggest thing that I need to do is to get organized and get things up and running including revamping this site and setting up a portfolio/sales site. I’m going to be ambitious and see how many of these I can hit this year. I think my first “year long project” will be the new 100 Possibilities Project on Flickr – 100 photos of the same item. It can’t be that hard to take 100 different photos of a laptop can it?

I’ll keep you all posted on the rest!

Gonna have to try this out!

Harsh, unflattering flash got you down? Grab an old roll of film and make it all better.

Follow Flickr user natuurplaat’s lead, and turn an old film canister into a flash diffuser! A few strategic cuts make it easy to slip the canister onto your pop-up flash, and voila! Soft, beautiful lighting.

Keep reading and we’ll show you how to make your very own little piece of genius.

Check out the DIY over at Photojojo!

Came across a pretty cool article over at Photojojo! Here’s the rundown of the 19 resolutions:

Get Schooled

1. Take a class
2. Self-guided study
3. Learn by studying the greats

Practice, Practice, Practice

1. Start Project 365
2. Shoot the most challenging subject: Yourself
3. Take a photo a week of the things you’re grateful for
4. Focus on the colors
5. Take your camera everywhere

Try something new

1. Make your own fish-eye lens
2. Experiment in unfocus
3. Travel
4. Take photos of things that make you afraid

Be a copycat

1. Stage a photograph
2. Capture the paranormal

Print!

1. Make your own photo journal
2. Turn a photo into a coloring book
3. Print two photos as one
4. Create the most romantic photo gift ever

And number 19, the most important – BACK IT UP. FOR REAL.

Anyways, I’ve already undertaken a few of these, looking forward to checking out some of the other suggestions. Read the expanded version and more detailed information over at Photojojo!