June 2022

Summer is coming, summer is coming!

Welcome to June. In the Northern Hemisphere we are starting to unpack our summer gear to enjoy the warmer weather. For those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, your cool temperature gear is starting to make an appearance. In Canada we will experience the longest day of the year this month while our antipode friends will see the shortest day. Wherever you are in this great, big, wonderful world, June will be full of opportunities for photo taking!

I’m super excited to welcome June. For the first time in over two and a half years I will be traveling internationally. While you are reading through this ebook I’ll be on a River Cruise on the Rhine River in Europe. Brian and I both turn 60 this year so we figured a River Cruise was the perfect way to celebrate. Before the cruise we will be spending three days in Lucerne, Switzerland. I don’t think I’ve looked forward to something so much in my whole life. I’ve missed travel over the past couple of years and I’m glad to see the world is starting to open up again.

Travel is an excellent opportunity for us photography enthusiasts. When we travel, we see and experience things that can be so different from our everyday lives. Our senses are overloaded and our cameras allow us to capture these moments and share them with the world. For two weeks this June my photos will be taken from somewhere very different for me and I can’t wait to see what I come up with. I hope you’ll follow along with me through my daily prompt photos.

Will you be traveling this summer? If so, please share your photos with us. Many of us will be traveling vicariously through you. As a member of this group, I have seen parts of the world that I likely will never have time to visit. We have a lot of wanderlust folks in this group and it’s such an honour to travel the world through your photos. I’ve added places to my travel bucket list just by seeing photos others in this group have posted while they are on vacation. Your travel experiences coupled with your creative photography provide all of us 365ers with a glimpse into the awesome experience you are undertaking somewhere out there in this great big world. If you are one of those that takes and collects photos as your souvenirs when you travel, please share your travel tales with us. We want to travel the world with you!

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Each month is broken into 4 weekly themes: Picture You, Picture More, Picture Color and Picture Style. These are meant to fuel your imagination, keep you engaged, and challenge your creativity. They give you the opportunity to see the same things in different ways.

PICTURE YOU

Possibly the biggest challenge, but it allows you to chronicle your life and to be included in photos for loved ones who want to have photos of you, even if you don’t like how you look that day. You don’t HAVE to be in the picture every day, but we would love to see you.

During Picture You week you will notice some sub-challenges:

Sunday Selfie
Sunday of Picture You week you’re encouraged to take a selfie, nothing fancy, just your wonderful face.

Picture My Hands
What are you doing today? Show us what you’re doing or holding from your point of view and be sure to include your hands.

Picture the Alphabet
Have you seen the letter “E” in a fence or “O” in a ferris wheel? Find letters in your world, or, if you can’t find them, make them even with just a piece of paper and a marker. Let the letter stand out! You will see two letters for the prompt. We want two photos in a collage for your daily photo. By the end of the year you will have 26 letter photos to make words.

Picture My World
This is a quarterly challenge. We are hoping you can return to the same spot 4 times on these days to document the changing seasons in your world or in your life.

PICTURE MORE

Let’s get technical! This will challenge your creativity with a technical agenda. In these weeks of your year you will look at repetition, triangles, diagonals, textures, centred photos (to name a few!). Don’t be shy to ask for clarification, camera settings or any tips and tricks. We aren’t magicians here, we share our secrets!

PICTURE COLOR

We will focus on a specific color chosen by the Creative Team for these weeks. You can include a little of the color, go completely monochrome or anything in between. You will likely find that this is one of your favourite weeks.

PICTURE STYLE

Landscape, food, golden hour, still life, street, minimalist are just some of the styles you will be encouraged to play around with to try out something new. Some of these might be a little out of your comfort zone. Our hope is that by the end of the week you may have discovered something you love. You might find style in your original photo or add some style in post-processing.

EXTRA CHALLENGES

Along the way you’ll notice a few added monthly challenges sprinkled in to give you extra inspiration.

Macro Monday
For this prompt we encourage you to get in close. Grab your macro lens, macro filters or just crop your photo in post-processing. This is where we can focus on the little details.

Scavenger Hunt
A quarterly challenge where instead of one prompt, you have 9. Take the 9 photos and make a collage. If a scavenger hunt is a bit beyond you that day, see if you can challenge yourself to fit 3 prompts in three different photos, or all nine in one. Make it work for you and your day.

Picture Recreate
In this challenge, all we want you to do is recreate an existing photo, whether that’s a Pinterest photo you’ve been wanting to try, a photo from a fellow 365er you loved, or a photo of you and your siblings in the bathtub when you were 5. As always, you can be as creative or literal as you want.