Photo Month : WHAT

Let us hold our own little photo “contest”. It will take the form of a Photo-a-Day challenge. Ie: every day you get a new theme and are required to submit a photo, taken on the day, on the topic of the theme.

Ok, scratch that.

Photo-a-Day is not practical unless we all suddenly become free agents* with nothing better to do.

So let us hold our own little Photo-a-Week challenge. To participate, you will be given a new theme every week. During that week you take original photos on that theme and submit your best so we can all see and comment. The Photo Month will be for September - 4 weeks & 4 themes.

I’m making the rule that you can submit as many photos as you like, provided that they (a) are all within the theme, and (b) are significantly different from each other.

For example, if the week’s theme is “Red”, you might submit a rose and a Ferrari. That would be fine. But two photos of roses would be disqualified, and you will have to report to the headmasters office.

This is not a contest, as in, the winner will not receive an all expenses trip to a paradise island. This is more of a personal challenge and a bit of fun. The challenge is for us to be creative in our interpretation of the theme, and for us to grow our technical photography skills. Explore your artistic side in creating an interesting composition. Explore your camera’s settings**.

Speaking of cameras, this is not about expensive SLR set-ups. Any camera will do. Use your phone if you have to.

The fun will be as we share our entries and comment on each other’s photos.

Come back here next week, where I will describe HOW we will share our photos.


* free agents, aka jobless.
** Exploring your camera: I’ll write some tips in a future post. Suggest things to me you’d like to know about.