Please send your entries in by noon on Tuesday 7th February. Good luck!

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.

Please send your pictures in by noon on Tuesday 24th January.

Good luck!

This is a good exercise in composition. You have time to study the background before you take the photo, so make the most of [...]]]> 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 17^th January. Good luck, and just post a message at the bottom of this post if you have any questions!

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!

Your assignment is to photograph your favourite Christmas present.

We’re back on normal time now, so please send your [...]]]> 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 3^rd 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.

As of today, there are twelve days until Christmas. I ask you to take one photo for each of the twelve days* leading up to Christmas Day. How you do this is [...]]]> Yes – it’s that time of year again where we have a two-week Challenge for the holidays. Kirsty suggested this week’s Challenge.

As of today, there are twelve days until Christmas. I ask you to take one photo for each of the twelve days* leading up to Christmas Day. How you do this is up to you – it could be a documentary shot of what you do each day as you prepare for Christmas, landscape photographs, or something else entirely. Mega bonus points to anyone who manages to take photos for each line of the song

Strictly speaking, each photo should be taken on each of the twelve days but at this busy time of year it’s fine if you want to send in twelve random pictures.

When you send in your pictures, emails that are too large might get rejected, so if this happens to you, send one or two photos in each email. Better yet, resize them online (width 1024 pixels please) and send me the resized versions which should all fit in one email, or upload them on your own blog, Flickr page or (public) Facebook album and send me a link.

The deadline for this Challenge is noon on the 27^th December, so there are a couple more days than photos. If you don’t manage the full dozen, that’s OK, just send in whatever you produced. I’ll aim to publish the results on the 27^th but I haven’t quite decided on the format, nor do I know how busy/drunk/lazy I will be

^{* Yes, I know the real Twelve Days start on the 25th, and that the twelve days used in this Challenge end on the 25th. Jesus wasn’t born in December either, but that is outside the scope of this photography website.}

If the weather [...]]]> For those of us in the UK, at least, the cold weather is really biting. There will probably be morning frosts this week, and even the possibility of snow coming down from Scotland. So we’ll run with Phoebe‘s suggested Challenge, cold weather. Thanks for suggesting, and welcome!

If the weather doesn’t turn bad, I’m sure there are other ways of interpreting this! Keep checking the weather.

Please send your chilly snaps in by noon on Tuesday 13^th December. Wrap up warm!

Of course, your chosen crowd doesn’t have to be shopping-related. [...]]]> This week’s Challenge was suggested some time ago by Amanda. The theme is crowds. I’ve decided to use it now because the Christmas shopping crowds are starting to build and it seems a good opportunity for everyone to be able to find a crowd.

Of course, your chosen crowd doesn’t have to be shopping-related. Be as creative as you like!

Please send your entries in by noon on Tuesday 6^th December. Have fun!

Please send your pictures in by noon on Tuesday 29th November. Have fun!