December 2021

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory - Dr. Seuss

What a year! It is hard to believe that our 365 Picture Today 2021 year is coming to its grand year end finale! It has been a wonderful year full of new friendships through photography, retaining old friendships, and learning and enjoying the fruits of the labour of photography. We have laughed and cried and learned a lot about one another. We have grown as a community and as photographers.

Congratulations! Taking and posting a picture a day is a huge accomplishment and one you should be extremely proud of.

Dear 2021

I have learned a lot this year as a photographer! I have learned that taking a picture a day for 365 days can be really exciting but also sometimes really hard. I have learned that not every creative idea I have is going to work, but when they do it is the greatest sweetness; not only to me, but to those who enjoy my pictures. I have learned that not everyone is going to love what I love and that I am not always going to love what others love, but I know that I came away from the year with the knowledge that I have grown as a photographer.

I am proud that I completed my journey. I may not have always followed the prompt to the "T", I may have been off prompt more than on prompt, I might have missed a day or two, but I completed the year and that is a HUGE accomplishment. I've run my marathon and I am not even tired! I have gas in the tank and I am ready for 2022!

I learned that endings are also beginnings and there is hope in that!

Yours truly,

365 Picture Today photographer

Who is excited for 365 PICTURE TODAY 2022?

12 new chapters

365 new chances

Explaining the Prompts

The weekly themes designed to fire up your imagination, increase your skill level, learn new techniques and share your joy of the photography world!

PICTURE YOU week just might challenge you the most! Getting in front of the camera is important in so many ways. It teaches us how others feel when the camera is pointed at them and it allows us to be more comfortable in our own skin. When we include ourselves in a picture, it documents our days, but you don’t HAVE to be in the photo at all if it does not fit your style. There is freedom in this week, but we do challenge you to turn the lens around and get in front of it! (You have a million pictures of your family, but none of yourself, right)? Each PICTURE YOU week will have a GUEST PROMPT where a member from our community will be given the opportunity to write a prompt for us to follow! The guest prompt is designed for you as valuable members to stretch your creative abilities and show us what you’ve got!

PICTURE MORE is ‘technical week’. The prompts will let you explore your creativity with a technical agenda. This is the week to try new skills, revisit old ones and maybe learn some really interesting tricks. You might just surprise yourself with your technical genius! One of the greatest things about photography is its diversity. We will be exploring camera angles, symmetry, breaking the rules, negative space and other tricks to make your photography evolve! During this week we will be stretching ourselves with skills that may range from techniques such as light trails, long exposure, lens zooming and panning, or we may switch things up and add some processing fun!

PICTURE COLOR is all about color, a specific color on a Sunday chosen by one of the creative team that will be featured exclusively! Sometimes you will easily find these colors and other times these colours may be more difficult to find. Be patient - sometimes the color will just ‘pop’ out at you in the most unpredictable way! The color prompt week will most definitely make our galleries look lovely!

PICTURE STYLE is all about your style within different styles! Landscape, street, night, travel, portraiture, still-life, wildlife photography and other picture modes are going to be stylized to create some amazing photographs. We will also be playing around with shutter speed and double exposure to give your photos a different “pop”.

EXTRA CHALLENGES: Each month we are including SELF PORTRAIT, WHERE I STAND and MACRO MONDAY challenges. We also have the new QUARTERLY CHALLENGES. First up is PICTURE YOUR WORLD, where you hopefully will return to the same place each quarter to take the same photo (see the seasonal changes), second is the SCAVENGER HUNT that went down so well last year and finally we thought that SONG LYRICS will give us all a bit of a challenge, all totally up to you, if you want to incorporate this into your daily photo.

Daily Prompts