The Splodz Blogz Annual February Photo Challenge | #SplodzDPC
Something of a mainstay here on Splodz Blogz (have you taken part in the last eight?!), today I’m sharing the themes for this year’s annual February photo challenge, which starts next week.
I hope this will help inspire you in two ways this February – to take a photo every day, and to spend a little bit of time outside on a daily basis.
Sharing my world in photos was how Splodz Blogz started way back in 2010 (read weekly blog episode 136). I created this little corner of the internet with that exact purpose in mind, sharing photographs, good and (very) bad, every single day for at least two years.
These days, daily photos, whether they be on blogs, social media, or just stored forever on our phones, have turned into something much more delayed and curated. And there are hundreds of them – we click repeatedly, trying to get just the right shot. Nothing wrong with that in itself, it’s an excellent way to channel creativity and to capture memories. But sometimes it’s good to be a bit less careful.
Your World in Pictures
Here’s an easy month-long challenge that might get you back into the moment for the next four weeks. A morsel of image-based mindfulness to encourage creativity, an opportunity to think about something specifically, and to pay extra attention to the world immediately around you.
Part of my One Hour Outside project, I’m also asking you to use the themes given here to inspire you when you get outside every day in February. It’s not a rule or anything, sharing indoor photos is fine, but maybe this is a way to make sure you get outside every day for a month, even if it’s just for five minutes to grab a relevant snap.
One Hour Outside February Photo Challenge
Each day during February, take a photo that is somehow linked to the given prompt, and share it on your favourite social media using #SplodzDPC.
That’s 29 photos (happy leap year!) documenting life as you experience it, giving you both a creative project for the month, and something to look back on at the end to remind you of some of the moments you might otherwise forget.
You can interpret the given theme each day any way you choose. I’m sure you can find a way to make it fit the life you happen to be living on the day. It’ll be interesting to see how we each interpret the themes differently and, indeed, when we see them in the same way.
The idea is that your photograph should be taken and shared on the right day, that’s kind of what I’m going for here. But this isn’t a hard rule (this whole thing is just for fun…), so please share old photos if you like. I almost always have to dig into my archive at least once.
And don’t worry if you can’t take part every day; dip in and out as you feel able to.
The main point of the challenge is to use the daily prompts to observe the world around you a little differently, sharing something real.
If the themes provide you with that extra excuse to get outside each day (you know, get your One Hour Outside), then that’s just wonderful. If you’re already outdoors, then you’re a step ahead. But if you’re staying inside for whatever reason, whether that’s due to work or illness or something else, then I’m sure you can make these themes work for you too.
Photo Prompts for February 2024
To make it nice and easy for you to copy the themes into your journal or diary, here they are as a text-based list:
- Thursday 1 February: Who Am I?
- Friday 2 February: One Hour Outside
- Saturday 3 February: Feeling Cosy
- Sunday 4 February: This Way
- Monday 5 February: On My Feet
- Tuesday 6 February: Black and White
- Wednesday 7 February: Cup of Tea
- Thursday 8 February: My Normal
- Friday 9 February: On My Lunchbreak
- Saturday 10 February: Amongst the Trees
- Sunday 11 February: In the Darkness
- Monday 12 February: Very Old
- Tuesday 13 February: The Smallest
- Wednesday 14 February: Two’s Company
- Thursday 15 February: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Friday 16 February: Water
- Saturday 17 February: In the Sky
- Sunday 18 February: From Where I Stand
- Monday 19 February: Around the Block
- Tuesday 20 February: The Weather
- Wednesday 21 February: On the Menu
- Thursday 22 February: My Favourite
- Friday 23 February: On Wheels
- Saturday 24 February: At Noon
- Sunday 25 February: Comfortable
- Monday 26 February: Going Down
- Tuesday 27 February: Can’t Live Without
- Wednesday 28 February: Waking Up
- Thursday 29 February: Sunset
Sharing Your Images
Each day, take a look at the theme and take a photograph with that in mind. Share it on your favourite social media (or on your blog, vlog or anywhere else you fancy) using #SplodzDPC.
Using the hashtag means I and others taking part can find your photographs and see what you’ve been taking. Please do consider liking and commenting on photos others take and share; it’s the same hashtag we’ve used for a few years, so you can already see some of last year’s snaps.
See #SplodzDPC on Instagram
It would be great to have a whole community of daily photo challenge participants once again this year. Follow me on Instagram, Threads and/or Facebook (I don’t do twitter these days) to see the themes (and share the challenge with your friends), get daily reminders throughout February, and to see how I’m interpreting the prompts each day.
See you (outside… with your camera…) every day in February!
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