The Alphabet: A Photographic Challenge

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About The Alphabet: A Photographic Challenge

This is a little game for photographers that I have come up with. The aim of the game is to collect a photo for every letter on the alphabet (either on flickr or pix, in it's own set). The idea is to show creativeness in interpreting set goals. Obviously the skill level on this group varies majorly from person to person, some of us are just starting out, where others have been at this for years and have been published etc. While ability, and equipment (studio set up etc) may play an important part in this, creativity is the main target.

For example, A:
Photographer 1 may put together an extremely artistic shot involving an apple, great background textures, they may leave the apple age a couple of days.
Photographer 2 might present a landscape shot taken in Adare
Photographer 3 might give us a shot that represents Apathy.

This would allow us to explore our ability as photographers, try something new that is open to interpretation, maybe even give each other some ideas.

If you feel like a bit more of a challenge, try to fit the lot in with a specific theme. For example someone who is really into interpretive stuff might choose the theme 'Emotion'. Awe, Boredom, Confusion etc. Or someone into landscapes could do something similar (Even with local towns), or Cars. (Although a specific theme like this would require some letters to be left out in all likelihood). Something like this may be particularly useful for someone with a lot of experience looking for a bit more of a challenge.

I think to give this a fair go though, people would have to submit only new photos. Obviously this is just for fun, so if you have something old that you want to use then that's no biggie, but the whole purpose of this is that it is treated like an assignment.

I think it might be best just to leave the entire thing open for maybe 2 or 3 months. Leave people work away at their own pace, in whatever order they want. They might get two photos done one day, then nothing for the next two weeks. No rush.

(3 months means an average of two photos a week. Is that too much? Would six months be better?)

There are no prizes, no winners and no judges. This is just a chance to push yourself and to see where you end up, and to see where others end up too.