About 1000 chickens
Modeled (loosely) after the 1000 strangers project: Step out of your comfort zone to a new level of poultry photography. Start by taking 1000 portraits of chickens you don't know.
The idea: The One Thousand Chickens project is a learning group for people who want to improve clucking and flocking skills needed for taking portraits of stranger chickens and telling their stories. The method is learning by doing.
The project is lots of fun and improves photojournalistic skills. During the process you might expand your every day scratching and laying skills - and who knows, maybe you will even move up a couple of notches in the pecking order during the process.
We welcome both newly-hatched and wise old bird photographers. You may be new to photographing chickens, have never photographed a chicken or practically live in a coop with your camera always at ready.
The challenge: Take 1000 photographs of at least 1000 chickens. Approach a chicken or a flock and ask for permission to both take a photo of them and to post it to this group. Where did they hatch? What do they scratch up? Who are they? What is life in the chicken house like?
Try to tell a small story with each photo you take. This may be a story about the chicken or how you felt approaching that particular bird. You may have, for example, tried bribing a rooster with corn and learned a new bandaging technique after he spurred you when you learned that roosters cannot be bribed with food. Try to learn something from every encounter you make and, if you can, pick up some eggs along the way!
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Additional Information
 This is a public group.
- View the group rules.
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Members can post 3 things to the pool each day.
- Accepted media types:
- Accepted content types:
- Photos / Videos
- Screenshots / Screencasts
- Accepted safety levels:
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