Phebruary

Most of you, by now, have probably heard about Inktober, the month long foray into all things inky. If you aren’t familiar, the challenge consists of a one-word prompt for each day of the challenge. The idea is to take each day’s prompt and create a new piece of art using ink.

So let’s do it for photography.

Below you’ll find a list of prompts for the month. Each day, take a photograph using one of the two prompts for that day, and tweet it out with the hashtag #phebruary, along with the prompt that you used.

Some ‘rules’:

1. This is meant to be fun. Support each other and be nice.
2. You don’t necessarily have to participate every single day. I get it, life gets in the way sometimes, and there’s only a certain amount of time that you can devote to hobbies. That said, if you want to get into photography, or you want to improve, challenge yourself to pick and stick to a schedule, whether that’s every day, every other day, once a week, or something else.
3. I will be doing the challenge daily, and posting my submissions to my blog in addition to Twitter. At the end of the month, if anyone takes up the challenge, I’ll be collecting some highlights, and sharing them on the blog. (I will always contact you for permission before I use one of your pieces, and I will never give you grief for saying no.) If no one takes up the challenge, it will be a retrospective about the challenge.
4. This isn’t school, so there is no such thing as a wrong answer. Use the prompt to inspire you. If you are inspired by both prompts for a day, do both.
5. Feel free to watermark your images.
6. Not a photographer, but still want to create along with us? You are 100% welcome to use these prompts for art in whatever medium you care to use.

The Prompts:

EDIT FROM THE FUTURE!!!! (Jan. 22) - So I screwed up when generating the list of prompts, and a couple of duplicates snuck through into the pool that got fed into the randomizer. I'm currently in the process of fixing my mistake, and will have the repaired list posted before this weekend. Hopefully with some twitter-friendly sharable graphics! -tB

I hope to see some of you participating along with me. If the whole thing is as clear as mud, I'll be posting a couple examples next week.