Photo Challenge http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk Challenging you to take better photos Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:19:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pink http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/pink/ http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/pink/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:19:30 +0000 Jonathan http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/?p=2531 It’s been a while since we had a simple colour theme – so this week your challenge is to take a photograph that somehow incorporates pink.

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

]]> It’s been a while since we had a simple colour theme – so this week your challenge is to take a photograph that somehow incorporates pink.

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

]]> http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/pink/feed/ 3 Religion – Results http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/religion-results/ http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/religion-results/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:15:59 +0000 Jonathan http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/?p=2518 Well done to everyone who sent in a religious-themed photo this week. There were ten entries.

Robert

Val Bonney

Andy Young

Michael Melloy

Kate

Julia Gazeley

Kirsty Garland

Paul Seward

James Smith

Colin [...]]]> Well done to everyone who sent in a religious-themed photo this week. There were ten entries.

Robert

Val Bonney

Andy Young

Michael Melloy

Kate

Julia Gazeley

Kirsty Garland

Paul Seward

James Smith

Colin Morey

]]> http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/religion-results/feed/ 4 Religion http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/religion/ http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/religion/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:21:54 +0000 Jonathan http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/?p=2514 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 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!

]]> http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/religion/feed/ 9 Food – Results http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/food-results-2/ http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/food-results-2/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:08:30 +0000 Jonathan http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/?p=2500 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

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

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

Good luck!

]]> 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!

]]> http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/food-2/feed/ 7 Background – Results http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/background-results/ http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/background-results/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:47:08 +0000 Jonathan http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/?p=2488 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 [...]]]> 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

]]> http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/background-results/feed/ 9 Background http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/background/ http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/background/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:41:48 +0000 Jonathan http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/?p=2479 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 [...]]]> 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! :)

]]> http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/background/feed/ 6 In the beginning – Results http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/in-the-beginning-results/ http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/in-the-beginning-results/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:15:55 +0000 Jonathan http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/?p=2467 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 [...]]]> 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

]]> http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/in-the-beginning-results/feed/ 4 In the beginning http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/in-the-beginning/ http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/in-the-beginning/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:51:36 +0000 Jonathan http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/?p=2464 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!

[...]]]> 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! :)

]]> http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/in-the-beginning/feed/ 3 Your favourite present – Results http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/your-favourite-present-results/ http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/2012/01/your-favourite-present-results/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:46:00 +0000 Jonathan http://www.photo-challenge.co.uk/?p=2455 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 [...]]]> 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

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