The beginning of a new year is a great time to start a photography challenge. Initially I didn’t think I wanted to take part in any of the challenges I’ve seen sponsored at various photo blogs, however, I’ve been a little frustrated with my photography lately and decided that maybe I could use a little inspiration.
The first challenge is something I’m doing on my own - I’ve taken a photo a day this past week and am purposefully working on my perspective … getting down low or shooting from above … basically just trying to see my subject from a different perspective.
Then yesterday I came across a Project 52 – take one photo a week for a year – at Paint the Moon, which sounded interesting and do-able. Most of the photo challenges I’ve come across for 2012 have themes. I’m typically not a theme lover when it comes to photo challenges because I feel too confined. However, the Paint the Moon challenge was different in that there were a couple of themes to choose from … one that was more open to the photographer’s interpretation and another that could be taken more literally. And the really cool part about this particular photo site was that they also are sponsoring a challenge for kids!
So I decided to give it a try and was able to enlist the kids to be a part of the kid’s challenge as well. I’m not going to commit to post every one of my pictures from the challenge, however, I will start by sharing this week’s capture…
The two themes for this week were “all natural” and “sharing.” I think it’s pretty obvious which one I chose, although I do have an idea for the “sharing” theme as well that I’m going to try and capture this weekend.
I’m hoping that this challenge will push me to learn and I’m excited to be doing it with my kiddos. The themes for their first week are “pets” or “metal.” Andrew is helping Joel work on his truck this morning out at his brother’s shop so he took the camera with him, hoping to find some good shots that involve metal. I can’t wait to see what he came up with! Hopefully I can share some of their captures throughout the year as well!
If you’re interested in more photo inspiration, you can visit the challenge’s flickr site here.
I typically don't like theme photography challenges too as I'm not creative enough to figure some of them out. But I figure they would be a good way to help me be and see more creatively and challenge me to find things outside of my comfort zone to photograph.
ReplyDeleteWe shall see. Have fun with your challenge.
This is beautiful! Love the gorgeous light and low perspective!
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