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Festive season

This Challenge will be a two-week assignment, to give us all a break. I encourage you to take as many photos as you like over Christmas and New Year. See if you can make the most of people, parties, presents, other things that start with P, and, of course, snow.

In January, pick your [...]

Non-portrait self portrait – Results

Thank you and well done to the five people who entered this week. Some inspired work!

Andy Young

Jay Linn

Andy Gazeley

Jonathan Gazeley

Julia [...]

Non-portrait self portrait

A slightly different Challenge for you this week. You should take a self-portrait – but the portrait needn’t show your face.

Portraits are hard, and self portraits even more so. It’s probably best to use a tripod and the self-timer on your camera, but it’s also permissible to get someone else to hold the [...]

Victoriana – Results

Thank you and well done to the five people who entered this week. And extra well done to Andy for finding a photo of a battleship!

Andy Young

Jonathan Gazeley

Julia Gazeley

Jay Linn

Louise [...]

Victoriana

This week’s Challenge was suggested by Jay. It’s just one word – Victoriana. So what does it mean?

Victoriana refers to items or material from the Victorian period (1837–1901), especially those particularly evocative of the design style and outlook of the time.

The word is usually used to refer to printed work or to [...]

Send me a letter – Results

Wow! What a great week. We were blessed with 27 photos from eight people. I don’t know about everyone else, but I had fun with this one.

I attempted to set up a “fridge magnet” type area on this page where anyone can drag and arrange the letters as they like. Unfortunately I never [...]