Disclaimer: I am guest blogger for ShutterCal for 2010 and as compensation for writing guest posts for them on the ShutterBlog I get my own ShoeBox. I am not an affiliate or receive any compensation to write about ShutterCal anywhere other than the ShutterBlog site. I find the service that their site offers for free very cool and their product something worth talking about because it is so unique.

I recently received an empty box from ShutterCal. This is what they call their ShoeBox. I will get to that but first I should explain the concept of ShutterCal. ShutterCal is a website that I think was made especially for me. You see, I have been taking and posting a photo every day since April 9, 2005. I’ve taken 1700+ photos so far with no end in sight. Shuttercal is a free site that allows people to upload one photo a day to a visual calendar. You can click in on any photo on the calendar, comment on the photo, link to it, share it and embed it on your blog.

The ShoeBox is really interesting because you buy the empty box and fill it with your photos a month at a time. This is a very unique product because you fill your box by taking a photo each day. It is a delayed gratification sort of thing because you don’t get the photos until you have uploaded them. Also it is a motivating factor for you to get those photos taken and uploaded.

Once your month is totally uploaded if you have bought the monthly photo packets you will receive full color, great quality printed cards that have your photo on one side and the caption on the other.

I wish I had known about this site when my daughter was born in 2007. I took a photo of her every day for her first year of life. I did not want to miss a moment and at the end of the year my wife and I made a book of many of the photos from that year. But imagine if I took a photo every day for that first year and uploaded it to ShutterCal and then at the end of the year I had 365 printed photos and captions of memories from my daughter’s first year of life. Can you imagine being able to have that to keep forever, take out and see touch and remember at any time. Digital images are great but being able to touch and feel real photos and pass them around to friends and family and talk about them is such a treasure.

My suggested project for dads here is to become the family historian for 2010 and take a photo each and every day. You could also and write a little caption of what is happening in your family life that day. If you decide to get the ShoeBox then at the end of 2010 you will have 365 physical cards that you can look back on and share together as a family. If you don’t get the ShoeBox you still have a photo representation of your family’s 2010. Also, each month is color coded so it is easy to mix them up as you pass them around and then organize them again simply. Is anyone interested in this sort of project for 2010? Is anyone doing something similar?