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Your favourite present

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.

The 12 Days of Christmas – 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

The 12 Days of Christmas

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 :D

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 27th 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 27th but I haven’t quite decided on the format, nor do I know how busy/drunk/lazy I will be :P

* 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.

Cold weather – Results

It’s been a nippy week outside this week, and these are the shots you came up with. Several people noted that although it was cold, it didn’t look cold. Perhaps there was no snow or ice, but these photos do seem to give an excellent impression of a cold day. Well done to all!

Andy Young

Robert

Kate

Jonathan Gazeley

Kirsty Garland

Paul Seward

Cold 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 13th December. Wrap up warm!

Crowds – Results

Well done to everyone who sent in a picture of crowds this week. I’m really pleased that we’ve got several different interpretations. Keep it up! :)

Kate

Robert

Andy Young

Kirsty Garland

Bertenand Green

Jonathan Gazeley

Crowds

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 6th December. Have fun! :)

Secrets – Results

Sorry for the delay in publishing this week’s results. I completely forgot, until one of our keener-eyed readers reminded me! Is it really Tuesday?

Very well done to the five entrants who managed to send in a photo.

Andy Young

Kate

Kirsty Garland

Robert

Lee Griffifths

New Facebook page

For some time now we’ve had a Facebook group where I mainly would forget to post updates about new Challenges.

Now we have a new Facebook page where updates from this website will automagically appear. So if you’d like to be updated about new Challenges through Facbook, please “like” that page.

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Secrets

Your Challenge this week is to come up with a photograph that encompasses the theme of secrets. I hope we will see some interesting interpretations!

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