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One Year Anniversary – Red Fireworks – Norm Lanier

August 7, 2014
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Believe it or not today is the one year anniversary of Daily Disney Photo. Many of you may not know is that DDP had a predecessor. Before DDP I developed an app for the iPhone called Magic365. I had a great group of photographers (the 1st 16 Disney Master Photographers) that contributed along with myself for a new image every day. While it was a great experiment it had issues. I’m not a programmer so when the app had issues or Apple came out with a new OS things broke. Also the other issue was only people with iPhones or iPads could see it. Thinking about those issues I said to myself KISS. Launching DDP as a web site let me maintain it. Everybody that had access to it and it allowed a two way conversation. Daily Disney Photo was born.

The mission for DDP has always been to give the best Disney Park Photographers a place to showcase their work. This year’s over-achiever award (not a real award) goes to Joanie Eddis-Koch. Joanie contributed 37 photos in the last year. Basically one photo every 10 days. Congrats to the 10 photographers that earned the designation of Disney Master Photographer. Thanks to everyone that contributed to DDP. over the last year. You made the site what it is.

Lastly my first post to DDP was the castle at Disneyland. I thought it only appropriate to have the castle from WDW with a few fireworks thrown in to celebrate the anniversary. Enjoy!

Norm Lanier
Publisherwww.DailyDisneyPhoto.com

Norm Lanier

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Judd Helms August 7, 2014 at 5:47 am

Congrats! It is cool to hear the history. I am honored to be a part of this site. Disney should be thankful for people like you that put so much thought, care and dedication into something like this. Great job Norm!

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Norm Lanier August 7, 2014 at 7:31 am

Thanks Judd. I’m glad to have your amazing photos here on the site.

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Eddison Esteban August 7, 2014 at 10:27 am

Congratulations Norm on the one year anniversary! I am looking forward to many, many more to come. A special thank you for taking the time and your dedication to DDP to make this happen. The community of Disney Photographers that are part of this group are truly talented and I enjoy seeing what everybody contributes. To many more years!

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Chris Marquez August 7, 2014 at 4:14 pm

Awesome. Congrats, Norm! Can’t thank you enough for DDP and the work you put in. You’re doing a great job! I remember seeing the Magic365 icon on the Flickr pages of some of the people I follow and have wondered what it was about.

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Arthur Täysikuu August 9, 2014 at 7:43 am

Lovely shot Norm! And good job maintaining this site over the months, I didn’t know there was a predecessor to DDP, was cool to read the history.

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Garry Rollins August 10, 2014 at 2:49 pm

Congratulations on your first Anniversary Norm! Great job! I know it takes countless hours and dedication to keep this site going. As one of many people who loves seeing a little bit of the “Magic” brought to my screen each morning I thank you for your dedication. I’m honored to be included with so many wonderful photographers. Best wishes for many future years! (Also congrats for Joanie for the record posts – a very deserving honor for a outstanding Disney photographer)

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Joanie Eddis-Koch August 11, 2014 at 8:40 pm

This is your energizer bunny checking in! Believe it or not I have 3 trips coming up shortly so this should put the rest of you on notice to join me in plastering the site with all of these marvelous Disney compositions. It is so true that we encourage and inspire each other. I always marvel at the way other contributors see Disney parks and resorts.The creativeness, cleverness and artistry come shining through with every contribution. Keep up the great work everyone and here’s a special thanks to Norm for all of his hard work in encouraging us and maintaining and growing this awesome site.To have the opportunity to showcase our efforts in this wonderful community of Disney photography fans is truly special!
~Joanie

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Cliff Wang August 11, 2014 at 11:11 pm

Thank you Norm for running DDP. It is truly an honor to be apart of all the great photographers on here. I’m looking forward to contributing to DDP for many years to come.

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