Multitasking often leads to inefficiency. I’ve never really thought of it this way, but when technology cranks up the pace our life often gets so sucked into it that we don’t realize how much hurt is taking place. Like a computer, sometimes our lives don’t feel like they’re put to good use unless they’re running 5-6 applications at one time. Not realizing that we’ve slowed down and lost focus.

Do you have one thing in your life that you know God has placed in your path? If you were sitting at a buffet and only had to choose one of the foods at the bar, it’s the one you would take. Those other foods might also be good, but there’s just one that you enjoy most.

After some thought and prayer, I believe it’s time to part ways with two things that have occupied some (not too much) of my time these past few years. Why? Because the one thing God has made clear that I need to put my free time (for now) toward is focusing on Digital Disciples here in Columbus and helping the other cities consistently as they are getting started / continue meeting.

The first thing that I’m leaving behind is shooting 1 Photo Per Day. At the core I am a web / graphic designer, but I’ve challenged myself to practice more with photography by shooting a picture each day since January 1, 2010. I completed the 365 photos in 2010, and even kept it going in 2011 up until April 3rd. I’m not ditching photography, but I think the challenge has seen its last day.

The second would be (it actually ended a year ago anyway) the God’s Mac Podcast. My friend Lee Love and I recorded 56 episodes (interviews and discussion) for this podcast over the course of 3 1/2 years. We’ll still leave those up on the site for a while, but people continue to ask me if we’re going to get back to it. I’ve been tempted to, since it was such a good thing, but it just can’t happen.

I’ll share more in the next few days about what is going on with the Digital Disciples network, but I’d be thrilled if you could pray for that – and give all of the glory to God for all of these photos and podcasts that are out there. Hopefully many saw the great world God created through the photos, and heard the great work He is doing through people’s lives in the podcast. Have a great weekend!

If you weren’t up this morning to watch the ball drop and a new website of mine launch, let me introduce 1PhotoPerDay.com. It’s the site I mentioned yesterday, stemming from the Project 365 idea attempted by many photogs around the world. One of our three daughters was still sick, so we were all just laying low at home for the evening around the fireplace (my first pic).

I am hosting the site, and customized the Fotolog Theme for WordPress 2.9. I opted to also connect the site with FotoMoto.com, a service that allows photographers to easily offer their pics as prints, cards or e-cards. Since most of you are tech-savvy, I thought I’d share how the daily process I am using taking and adding the photos to the site below.

1. Take photo with my Nikon D50
2. Import photo onto Aperture 2 photo software on my iMac or MacBook Pro
3. Use the Aperture to Flickr plugin to upload the photo to my Flickr account (keeping photo under 800px wide to fit into Fotolog Theme)
4. Create a blog post within WordPress, inserting the image using the URL from Flickr and the smaller size URL Flickr provides for the archives thumbnail on the site. Instructions provided on Fotolog Theme site.
5. Once the blog is posted, Twitter is notified using the WP to Twitter plugin and the Facebook page displays new posts from the site using Notes.
6. Repeat steps 1-5 for the other 364 days of the year!

I really wanted to try taking a photo a day in 2009, but was a few days late. But not this year! You can read this post from Photojojo to get an idea of why I am doing this. You’ll definitely get a sense of what life is like around here, but hopefully it will shed light on what is most important to me. It will no doubt make me a better photographer. Hopefully sometime this year I’ll also be able to add to the gear I am using. I shoot with a Nikon D50 (has been discontinued from their line), and Quantaray 18-55mm and Nikon 70-200mm lenses.

I left the camera at my parents over Christmas, so I’ll need to make sure I get up there before the year rolls in! Maybe some of you will make into the project one day this year? Have you ever tried something like this, or might be able to share a link to a friend that has?