Every year I take part in a photography challenge run by a local photographer in her facebook group. This is the same photographer through whom I learned all about cameras (and, more importantly who inspired me to use my camera more often).
The challenge is normally 30 themes, one for each day in September. The idea is that you must take the photograph on that day and upload it to the group where the community give feedback. It’s a great way to encourage regular camera use and practicing all sorts of different techniques. Plus it’s a lot of fun.
Well this year, the seventh that the challenge has happened, it had felt a lot to ask of everyone to take a photo every day of the month so the challenge has been paired back to 4 weeks with three themes each week. Now you get the whole week to take all three images and upload by the end of the week.
I thought I would share mine here.
The first week’s themes are: together, green and vantage point:
theme 1 - together
This was actually the image that took me the longest. As it got to the Saturday at the end of the week I thought that this would work, plus I got a cooked breakfast out of it too,. I didn’t have long to take the image as i wasn’t going to eat cold bacon and eggs!
theme 2 - green
I had a problem with inspiration here and eventually settled on a mojito. I was a bit worried that i had over done the ingredients and that it would be too green but i’m Really pleased with the result. Especially the inclusion of an old salad server so look like a muddler..
Sadly I didn’t even make a mojito, this was just soda water!
theme 3 - vantage point
This is a view of the Shard in London, taken through a. window at St Dunstan in the East church. I visited here early in the week to get this image but it didn’t come out how I wanted.
I then, by chance saw exactly what I was after on Instagram. So i returned to try again and was really pleased with the way this came out.
The problem I find with some of these themes is that they can be interpreted in so many different ways that sometimes imagining something that is immediately recognisable as the theme is really difficult. Looking forward to next week’s themes: speed, unexpected and wild.