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The theme of religion has been suggested by Kate and Phoebe, so we’ll run with it.
You don’t have to be religious to take part in this Challenge. Religious imagery has affected day-to-day culture across the whole world, so you shouldn’t have to look too far to find something related to religion or faith.
The easiest choice here is to walk past your nearest church and take a photo of the cross on the roof, but I’m hoping that you will all come up with something other than that! Religion, faith and beliefs are among the most abstract themes for a photograph so there is a lot of scope for interpreting and illustrating various aspects of religion.
Please send your work in by noon on Tuesday 31st January. Good luck!
Well done to the ten people who sent in a food entry this week. What a great selection! Whose is your favourite?
 Antoinette  Simon Woodward  Andy Young  Kate  Kirsty Garland  Julia Gazeley  Alice Meehan  Andy Gazeley  Paul Seward  Robert
This week your Challenge is to take a picture of food. It should look good enough to make me want to eat it!
Please send your pictures in by noon on Tuesday 24th January.
Good luck!
Well done to everyone who sent in a background photo this week. That gives us two things to rank entries by this week – favourite background, and favourite foreground. So, whose is your favourite?
 Kate  Robert  Michael Melloy  Jonathan Gazeley  Kirsty Garland
This week the Challenge gives you a technique rather than a theme. Find a background, set up your camera, and wait for something to happen in front of the background.
This is a good exercise in composition. You have time to study the background before you take the photo, so make the most of it. I recommend you read the 10 top composition rules for some tips and ideas.
For many people, this Challenge is a good opportunity to have a go at street photography – which is taking pictures on street, often of people. One of the masters of street photography was Henri Cartier-Bresson, who took this famous picture of a boy on a bicycle photo taken in Hyères, France, in 1932.
 Henri Cartier-Bresson This is exactly the kind of thing I am hoping to see this week. Please send your photos in by noon on Tuesday 17th January. Good luck, and just post a message at the bottom of this post if you have any questions! 
Well done to everyone who sent in a photo about new beginnings. I’m keen to get a discussion going each week after the results are published because I think it’s a really helpful part of the Photo Challenge. Why not say whose photo you think is the best, and why? Pick out features of anybody’s photo that you like. Ask questions. Have fun!
Also, for those people who have joined us recently: you can click these images to see a large version, and then go through the pictures using the left and right arrow keys.
 Robert  Kate  Antoinette  Phoebe Wintle  Flo Field  Kirsty Garland  Michael Melloy
This week’s Challenge is inspired by the New Year, although it can be to do with the beginning of anything.
Your picture should show a beginning; the start of something.
To anyone who hasn’t entered before, or hasn’t entered in a while – make this, the first Challenge of 2012 be your new beginning!
Please send your pictures in by noon on Tuesday 10th January. Good luck!
Well done to everyone who sent in a picture of their favourite Christmas present. I think I’m jealous of everyone’s presents!
 Andy Gazeley  Flo Field  Jonathan Gazeley  Julia Gazeley  Kate  Kirsty Garland
Apologies for publishing this Challenge a day late. This means you have a day less to take your photo, but fortunately in most cases your inspiration should be lying around on your living room floor!
Your assignment is to photograph your favourite Christmas present.
We’re back on normal time now, so please send your picture in by noon on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.
Bonus Challenge: This isn’t an official Challenge, but New Year is coming up and there will be fireworks. This seems too good an opportunity to pass up, so if you have a tripod, try taking some long exposures of fireworks. If you capture anything good, send it in and I’ll publish two sets of results.
Sorry for publishing these results a day late! As predicted, festivities took their toll! 
Well done to the four people who entered this mammoth Challenge. I believe Andy also tried to enter, but unfortunately the only thing I received from him was this message:
Internet in Cuba is very difficult! The Yanquis block everything!
International relations aside, the standard of photography is excellent this week and I’m hard-pressed to pick a favourite. Four entries, each of twelve photos makes for 48 individual pictures and a whole lot of scrolling, but please leave a comment after you’ve seen them all
Robert
I also recommend checking Robert’s blog to read his descriptions of the pictures.
Kate
Kirsty Garland
Louise Paling
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