a-pic-a-day challenge
My Sore Sandals Imaging Alliance has been taking on the challenge of taking and sharing a photo every day since 1 January 2024.
Find more info in the game rules below.
Game Rules
The most important and almost the only rule of the game is: take a photo every day.
One photo, just one, must be given a name and shared every day.
Whether taken with a mobile phone or a camera is up to you, the subject and motif are open.*
However: no image editing, no cropping, no fakes.
At the end of the month, one picture per participant will be published here.
The winners are those who participate and take and share a photo every day, thus keeping their eyes open and training their photographic eye even in the rather grey everyday life.
The game is less 'easy' than it sounds at first - the challenges arise all by themselves: on the way to work and back or to the supermarket; in wind and weather and on days with no light or with a cold or bad mood: it takes a photo, every day.
Another challenge (according to our experience) can also be to decide on a "pic of the day" every day.
* Selfies and baby spam are allowed by the rules of the game, but are not overly appreciated.
Experiences already made
January
The first month of the challenge. On the whole, we pulled through and found it increasingly fun. There were 2 fails and one cheat, but all beginnings are difficult and sticking with it is everything.
April
After 4 months of the challenge, finding a daily motif has pretty much become second nature to us. To an extend that we are increasingly diversifying our search for motifs in order to avoid boredom - for us and for the viewer.
July
It turns out more and more that we almost only use mobile phone photos for the challenge, even if we have a camera with us. We've now also decided that we definitely want to do this for the whole of 2024 - we'll see what happens after that.
September
We're feeling a bit like spring this month - we're wondering if we've ever experienced a particular season so intensely without the Challenge. But this autumn was also a particularly golden one... so that's why we're already planning for the next 365 pics or 500 at least....
February
The second month of the challenge has already worked much better, no fails and no cheats. We are starting to really enjoy it and are realising how our eyes are opening up in search of possible pics.
May
This month, photos from Flensburg, Hamburg and Crete were added to the Berlin photos. Because, of course, the challenge doesn't take a break on holiday. On Crete, we always shared the first photo of the day as an extra challenge.
August
Not mentioned for a long time: we haven't had any failures or cheats for months. The eye is sharpened in an unexpected way and a certain visual language crystallises, although the motifs are very different and diverse.
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March
We have now completed the challenge for a quarter of a year. Again there have been no fails and no cheats. We realised that since ages we hadn't noticed this clearly spring was on its way.
June
It's slowly getting more difficult - the immediate surroundings have been pretty much grazed. Taking a photo every day is now less of a challenge than finding the motif itself. Nevertheless, it's part of life now and we've decided to keep going.
September
Our (myssia) favourite time of year - it's no longer midsummer in Berlin since a few days and the light is now a bit more autumnal - wonderful. Some circumstances have changed, the challenge isn't getting any easier, but we're sticking with it