The Sunday series

The card gets emptied on Sunday. Whatever the week produced goes into the laptop, I pick what belongs together, write a few paragraphs, and post. Then the card goes back in the camera, empty, and the week starts again.

A week is a good unit. It's long enough to forget what you shot, which is the part I like most: opening the folder and seeing a Thursday you'd already filed away.

How to follow without a feed

• Bookmark the journal. New entries appear at the top on Sundays.
• Prefer a reader? There is an RSS feed.
• On Instagram I post a few fragments as a story teaser, two or three frames, no more. The full entry and the writing only live here.
• If a Sunday is skipped, it's skipped. The next one will say why.

Your turn

Some Sundays won't be mine. If you have an old digital camera, a dead-stock point-and-shoot, your parents' Casio or Sony or Kodak, and you went out with it instead of your phone, send me what it saw.

What I'm looking for:

• Photos straight off the card. No filters, no crop, date stamp on if your camera does one.
• Three to eight frames from a single evening or day.
• A few sentences about where you were and what it felt like to not have the phone out. That text matters more than the photos.

Selected sets will be posted as a Sunday entry under your name, with a link to wherever you want people to find you. Details on how to send are coming with the first guest Sunday.

Behind the camera

Every few weeks a Sunday entry is about the story behind the camera instead of what's in front of it: who it belonged to before, what got lost on a corrupted card, what the battery did at 2 a.m. in the rain. The gear is cheap. The stories around it aren't.