Archive for April, 2007
Posted April 30th, 2007 in Challenges |
This weekend, photogamers arranged things and took pictures of them!
-leethal- made this camera out of taffy! Mmmmm!
Special mention also goes out to cyenobite who made a drawing of bugs bunny out of rice! Wow!
VA Zanne made coins look cool with ice! Cleverness!
Lauren Stolzar organized trash into a composition… ok, it’s technically recycling, but it’s a great composition with super bokeh.
WxMom made a tower out of natural materials, her daughter’s block! Special mention to the fantastic plastic tower being put together by Mil8’s child.
Funkymunky1515 went crazy with the circles!\
I really enjoyed the bonus round and so did a bunch of photogamers! Take a gander at the photogamer flickr photo pool to check out all the photos! The Parsell family took the above surreal photo of a P for Parsell!
Posted April 26th, 2007 in Challenges |
Challenge #11 is all about arrangement. You’ll have to put things in place and take pictures of them!
1. Make art out of food… you know you’ve been wanting to arrange those fruit-loops in the cereal bowl! (tag: foodart)
2. Make coins look cool. (tag: coins)
3. Organize something you are throwing away into a composition. (tag: trash)
4. Make a tower out of natural materials. (tag: tower)
5. Find a way to make a circle out of your choice of materials. (tag: circle)
BONUS: Draw with light. Xjamjamjamx suggested this! Follow the link to learn how and then give it your best shot! - Link
Rules:
- All photos must be new - taken after challenge is posted and before end of day Sunday
- Post any/all photos to the flickr group and tag appropriately (photogamer plus whatever tags are listed below)
- You must complete all five shots in order to post to the Winner’s Circle.
Be Creative!
Posted April 24th, 2007 in Winners |
Congratulations to everyone who completed Challenge #10! Some of you have been with us all along and some of you are new. We love having all of you! Lots of great photos were submitted. Here are this week’s Super Winners!
1. Lauren Stolzar seems to think that the church wasn’t originally intended to host a carnival! Maybe not, but…seems like fun to us!
2. This beautiful photo, contributed by -leethal-, was chosen as the super winner in the “polka dot” category. We love the dress, the colors, the composition… It’s playful and fun - exactly what photogamer is all about!
3. So many people fear getting lost. And others fear maps. And some fear asking for directions… cyenobite suggested this category AND won. It was a toughie, wasn’t it?
4. This photo of a blue stapler, submitted by anitacanita, looks like a whale! So cute. Doesn’t it make you wanna staple all the time? It wasn’t the only whale photo submitted this week…check this one out too!
5. inthesilence took this gorgeous photo of a classic game! The colors and bokeh set it apart! Don’t you wanna play?
BONUS:
Life IS beautiful, isn’t it? We agree with teubey, who has the phrase (in French) on the back of a bicycle! Quelle bonne idée!
Posted April 19th, 2007 in Challenges |
Challenge #10 is based on your suggestions. We’ll do this every few weeks, so keep the suggestions coming in!
1. Something being used in a way it wasn’t intended to be used - suggested by L. Marie (tag: unintended use)
2. Polka dots - suggested by Eudaemonian (tag: dots)
3. Something you fear - suggested by cyenobite (tag: fear)
4. A face in an every day object - suggested by enamor_etsy (tag: face in object)
5. A game - suggested by sparktography (tag: a game)
BONUS:
Something written that has meaning for you.
Rules:
- All photos must be new - taken after challenge is posted and before end of day Sunday
- Post any/all photos to the flickr group and tag appropriately (photogamer plus whatever tags are listed below)
- You must complete all five shots in order to post to the Winner’s Circle
Have fun!!
Posted April 17th, 2007 in Winners |
Here are the Challenge #9 Super Winners who dared to go find small things and shoot them!
Sometimes photos are artistic compositions of color. Such is the case with this close up by TheFemGeek of bright wires with a black background!
Bugs were a favorite. OrphanJones shot this one with great boken. Bokeh, said like a bouquet of flowers is a word that describes the out of focus parts of a photo. This started as a cool photo of a beetle, but the distorted background and pretty colors all blobbed together make this shot extra special!
In the bug category, Phil Chapter appears to have shot the smallest living creature in the challenge!
Little cars were a favorite subject this week like this one by Tojosan.
MCV82 also shot this awesome bonus photo of a toy car with a real car.
It doesn’t get much cuter than this baby squirrel, shot by sharlr does it?
Teubey took this photo and this is about as small as it gets… I’m not even sure how small 100 nanometers is!
That’s it for small things super winners this week, but there are lots of great more in the winner list and the group flickr pool. Go check them out, leave positive comments, favorite the ones you like and we’ll have another challenge for you this weekend!
Posted April 12th, 2007 in Challenges |
This week, it’s all about the small things.
Go forth and take photos of small things. By small, I mean smaller than your fist. That’s right, we’re mixing it up this week.
Take as many pictures of small things that you can find.
You’ve got to have at least 5 to post to the winner’s circle, but that shouldn’t hold you back, take as many as you can find! Who will find the most small things? Who will find the most interesting small thing? Who will find the small thing that gets favorited the most? Who will find the smallest small thing? Who will shoot the small thing that gets the most comments? Who will take a picture of the smallest thing that is alive?
Tag each photo with “photogamer” and “smallthing.”
Bonus: Take a photo of a very very very small thing and a very very very big thing in the same photograph.
Rules:
- All photos must be new - taken after challenge is posted and before end of day Sunday, April 15th.
- Post any/all photos to the group and tag appropriately (photogamer plus the words above)
- You must complete five shots in order to post to the Winner’s Circle
Post your photos to our Flickr photogamer group
Participate in our Challenge #9 Winner’s Circle!
Have fun!
Posted April 11th, 2007 in Winners |
There was lots of creativity with the Photo Haiku challenge!!
Some were sweet, some were funny, some were just confusing!
This one, from Rachel-B, just plain rocked! What a great self-portrait!!
bought this in moscow
but hats make my head steamy
i’ll take it off now
And, once again, buttering up worked - check this from completelyknown… 
What is spring’s haiku?
Has anyone an hai-clue?
The photogamers!
To see all the photos and haikus, check out the Winner’s Circle - it’s worth a gander!
Thanks to all for taking part in the fun! 
Posted April 9th, 2007 in Challenges |
Okay! Here we go with a 24-hour mini-challenge!
Write a haiku. Illustrate with photo.
We don’t care which comes first - the photo or the haiku, but they must be taken and written today, Tuesday!
What the heck is a haiku?
A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. 17 syllables total split into three lines.
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
5-7-5!
I found this example of a photo haiku online:
In the gauzy heat
a butterfly guides its tongue
between the petals
You don’t hafta have the words on the photo…but you can! It’s up to you!
Rules:
- All photos and haikus must be new - taken in the next 24 hours (end of day Tuesday in the US!)
- Post any/all photos to the group and tag with "photogamer" and "haiku"
Post your photos to the Photogamer group and add both the photo and haiku to the Winner’s Circle!
Posted April 5th, 2007 in Challenges |
This week, Hilary’s niece (Sara) and her boyfriend (Dan) helped out with the planning of the challenge. And they’re going to play for the first time! We love new members at photogamer! Many of you will be spending the holiday weekend with loved ones. Why not get them involved? It’s all kinds of fun!
Challenge #8:
Take five photos of people/places/things that can be described as:
Use those words as tags!
Bonus: Get some chalk. Make your own hopscotch game. Take a photo of yourself (or anyone) playing!
Rules:
- All photos must be new - taken after challenge is posted and before end of day Sunday, April 8
- Post any/all photos to the group and tag appropriately (photogamer plus the words above)
- You must complete five shots in order to post to the Winner’s Circle
Post your photos to our Flickr photogamer group
Participate in our Challenge #8 Winner’s Circle
