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Monthly Photo Challenge

Postby Gravity Defier » Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:00 am

Anyone feel like being creative once a month for the next calendar year? All you'll need is a camera and a little time to spare. I'll throw out a relatively open-ended prompt, you make the picture happen with as much or as little creativity as you wish. No swiping from Google Images or similar online image searches. Original images only. Post your final product. Piece of cake, right?


December

Capture something related to winter.



November

Capture something food related.


October

Capture something fall related.

September

Capture your handwriting.


August

(In honor of 90s on Nick) Capture something that reminds you of your childhood or something that is from your childhood.

July

Capture the "Things [you] Carry."

June

Capture something that is related to reading.


May

Capture, if you can find it where you are, something spring related.


April

April showers...Capture something water related.

March

Capture something Jeebsy* inspired.

February

Capture something that you do every.single.day. Happy Groundhog Day month!


January

Capture your favorite color.




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January - Purple (with an "urple")

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Postby Mich » Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:14 am

In a desperate bid to be first, I have taken this poor picture of my poor Plant, who is green.

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Postby Luet » Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:10 pm

Grey (with an e) - my new coat from H&M, I got it 50% off

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Postby Wil » Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:07 pm

Blue (with a u) - My slept in, messy bed!

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Postby steph » Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:30 pm

I have a really hard time picking a favorite ANYTHING, so I have somewhat of a hard time saying that pink is my favorite color. Since I was living with 3 boys before Kinley was born, pink kind of became my label, since I was the only girl, so pink it is. (It's not like I DISLIKE pink, I actually like it a lot! I just used to favor red and blue, but now it's pink. I LOVE sprinkles, though!)

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Postby ender1 » Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:54 am

Blue


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Postby Petra456 » Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:21 am

My favorite color is pretty much all shades of purple.

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(The bird is lavender put it doesn't show up well with the flash)
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Postby Rei » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:11 am

I will try to find my favourite colour in nature soon, but first I just wanted to say: Nomi, I'm totally jealous of your grey coat!
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Postby Jayelle » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:12 am

Can I be totally lame and choose rainbow?

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No? Okay, my actual favourite colour is blue, specifically the diaper in the second row on the far left.

I love arranging my cloth diapers in rainbow order, though. ROYGBIV makes me smile.
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Postby Luet » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:08 pm

Thanks, Rei! I really like it too.

And Jan, I love that your color picture is of diapers. :)
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Postby Gravity Defier » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:18 pm

My favorite color is pretty much all shades of purple.
Hey! *Twinny high-five!* Also, the nest = awesome.



:) It was a pretty nice surprise, seeing activity in here.


Will, what's in your picture? It's lovely but I can't tell what it is. The lower left-hand corner reminds me of The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.
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Postby Young Val » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:20 pm



Will, what's in your picture? It's lovely but I can't tell what it is. The lower left-hand corner reminds me of The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.

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Postby ender1 » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:24 pm



Will, what's in your picture? It's lovely but I can't tell what it is. The lower left-hand corner reminds me of The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.

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Postby Petra456 » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:36 pm

Hey! *Twinny high-five!* Also, the nest = awesome.
Woo! *high five*

The nest is made out of one of my favorite scarves <3
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Postby Nehali Sophia » Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:23 pm

Blue!

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Postby Eaquae Legit » Sat Jan 22, 2011 8:52 am

The picture was worth the effort! It makes me sad there's no 10,000 Villages around here. Oxfam is awesome, but it's not the same and I would love to be able to decorate the room with 10,000 Villages stuff.
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Postby Rei » Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:37 pm

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I do love shades of green. Sadly, I did not quite capture the shade of green that I saw at that moment. It had been a sort of glowing green that occasionally happens near dusk which is just gorgeous. Alas, it looks just like a normal lawn green right now.
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Postby fawkes » Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:25 pm

Oh, um, uh... Quick find a picture! *shuffle* no, not that one. Uuhhhh...

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That's purple-y, right? Sure, why not?
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Postby mr_thebrain » Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:34 pm

mmmm dr pepper
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Postby Mich » Sun Jan 30, 2011 3:20 pm

mmmm dr pepper
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February

Capture something that you do every.single.day. Happy Groundhog Day month!
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Postby LilBee91 » Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:58 pm

This is one double counts. I really like this color green, and while I don't actually play with bacteria every single day, some weeks it feels like I do.

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Postby Wil » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:28 pm

Uhm, I don't think I can post a picture of the February challenge... :lol:

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Postby powerfulcheese04 » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:52 pm

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Cuddle with Fiona!

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Postby Jayelle » Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:00 pm

Two things (cause I couldn't pick one)

Colour with Ginny:
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Stare at Maggie:
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Postby Luet » Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:28 pm

Take pills (from my drug cabinet):

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I only take three in the morning and one at night but I *have* lots of different ones for different occasions. :) (Oh, and first photo from my new phone!)
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Postby Mich » Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:16 am

(while I'm on a picture-taking spree)

I put my coat on EVERY DAY. Without a doubt. At least once.

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When summer is at last over and the first day that can be somewhat classified as cold comes up, I feel at one with myself. Because I can wear my coat without dying.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:18 am

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I walk. Not the way most people do, as a necessary function of mobility, but I do more than I strictly need to, for the pleasure of it.




I love, love the color in your picture, Shannon. Purple is my favorite color but lime green would be in the top three, if not next in line. The way it pops, next to that red, is pretty spectacular.

Kim, you and Fiona are adorable, naturally. Very cute picture.


Jan, I just may forgive you for taking the markers (or was it crayons?) from Ginny when she started marking the walls, now that I know you color with her every day. I suppose I can't call you an art Nazi who is killing her creativity anymore...:P (<-- means I didn't really think you were an art Nazi, simply remembered something from FB about her coloring on the walls). Also, your baby is freaking cute.



Yay, Nomi! Pweb gets the first picture from your new phone. :D How is it, by the way? New phones scare the crap out of me, which is why I have my RAZR still. Which was already ancient when I got it.


As for Boss-man's picture, it reminded me of myself in high school, when it'd start to warm up and I perhaps wore my jacket a little too long because it was hard for me to adjust to being without it again. I guess I also wore it because I was super fat and thought it was hiding me or otherwise camouflaging just how fat I was, but I never claimed to have any sort of common sense. Right.
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Postby Dr. Mobius » Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:52 pm

I think Jan should be disqualified for cheating. Not because she submitted two pictures for February, but because of what was in those pictures.

Also, I need to figure out a way to transfer pictures from my blue tooth-challenged phone to my computer so I can participate in this awesomeness.
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Postby Luet » Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:01 am

Alea, sorry I forgot to respond to your question. I like my phone a lot, although I'm still finding out all the things it can do. My biggest concern was the battery life but so far it seems to last two whole days, so I'm happy with that.
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Postby Eaquae Legit » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:39 pm

I'm sorry I'm late on January's challenge! I never seemed to have a camera with me when conditions were ideal.

I love the colour of a clear sky and that particular glow you get just before sundown.
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Postby ratesjul » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:42 pm

And what do I do every day? I walk by this:
You have such cool things to walk past every day!
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Postby Nehali Sophia » Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:57 pm

I'm sorry I'm late on January's challenge! I never seemed to have a camera with me when conditions were ideal.

I love the colour of a clear sky and that particular glow you get just before sundown.
Such lovely pictures! I love that before sundown glow as well. A blogger I read posts pictures / art work of that time frame and calls it "The Golden Hour". I like that name!

And what do I do everyday?

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Decide whether I'm going to wear earrings that day, and if that answer is yes, then I pick out which ones to wear.
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Postby ratesjul » Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:56 pm

What do I do every day?

Wait in hope that one of these will ring and I'll have a job... an interview, or an opportunity to submit the cv, or best of all, a job.

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Postby Rei » Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:31 pm

Dang do I hear that...
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