So put on your walking shoes, grab your camera and go for a walk. You’ll be surprised at the photographic opportunities that present themselves. We’d love to see all of your photos as you can submit as many as you like!
Please tag your photos with Weekend Photo Walk 101 and then post your links in the comment section. Your entries won’t be judged—this is just for the fun of it!
Our next challenge is bringing us closer to home – your kitchen! From still life, food photography and action shots in the kitchen, this challenge should be interesting and fun. We love to find out more about our members and the challenges that bring us closer to where you live and what you love are some of the most fun to judge 
. Brush up on the Food Photography Pro Tip for some great tips!
OFFICIAL ENTRY RULES
To officially enter the Creative Challenge, you must tag your three submissions with creative-challenge-kitchen. You can then view them and everyone else’s submissions on the DISPLAY PAGE (it updates about every hour). To find out more about this, read the Using Tags on Creative Challenges post.
Submission Guidelines
1. Our editors look for sharp, clear horizontal images that are at a minimum resolution of 800×600 (submissions can have larger resolutions than this). Currently, vertical images cannot fit in the homepage template. Therefore, we cannot publish vertical or narrow panoramic images.
2. Images with added text or images, including watermarks, logos, copyright symbols, graphic borders, frames and time stamps, will not be considered for first place or being featured on the homepage at a later date. Collages, however, are acceptable. Images submitted should be your own.
3. Please do not submit pictures that have already been featured on the homepage.
4. The Creative Challenge runs from 12:01 a.m. on October 28 to 12:00 p.m. on November 9 (all times EST).
5. 3 pictures per person (regardless of how many member accounts you have) tagged exactly (including hyphens) with: creative-challenge-kitchen
*Note:Images that don’t meet the exact guidelines can be submitted and viewed for everyone to enjoy, but please understand that we cannot publish images that don’t meet minimum guidelines on the homepage. Also, now that you’re tagging your entries, you don’t need to post links in the comments section anymore.
NEXT CHALLENGE THEME: Jump!
Get up and get active for our next challenge! There’s something about capturing the moment of an air-bound subject that evokes a sense of joy, excitement or perhaps anxiety. For the next challenge practice catching movement from an intriguing angle and/or fast shutter speed. You may want to review some Pro Tips for help in catching your subject in action: Shutter Speed, Cropping and Burst Mode,
Again and again our members rise to our challenges – we certainly got that Spooky Feeling when judging this Creative Challenge. From super-spooky composites to eerie images, you did a great job! Congratulations to everyone who entered and to those who made it to the finalists page!
1. Cartoon – The Awakening by member peg353 – Congratulations – Your photo will be featured on the homepage on Halloween!
2. Soul Taker by member annedm1
3. Costnice, Kutna Gora, Czech Republik by russpsych
4. Out of the Black of the Night – How dare you enter my castle by member police370
5. HAUNTED FARMHOUSE ldeiter78
6. Moonlight Mist by ALDitzler
7. Witch by member photoplo
8. Last Ride by member kstamper723
You told us in our recent surveys that you love eCards, so we’ve worked really hard this spooky season with our parent company, AmericanGreetings.com, to bring you some of the best Halloween eCards for FREE!
It’s not Halloween without decorations, so we’ve dressed up the site with a fun theme, and we’ve also added an eCard link to the header, so you can easily send eCards to your friends and family. Plus, you can even post the eCards on Facebook–how cool is that?
From our family to yours, we wish you all a happy and fun Halloween–now it’s time to send some thrills and chills!
So put on your walking shoes, grab your camera and go for a walk. You’ll be surprised at the photographic opportunities that present themselves. We’d love to see all of your photos as you can submit as many as you like!
Please tag your photos with Weekend Photo Walk 100 and then post your links in the comment section. Your entries won’t be judged—this is just for the fun of it!
Do you love to download Community photos, such as the amazing fall scene by member bigsister861 that’s featured on the homepage today?
We’ve made it easier to do so with the new green download button on all Community photo pages. We hope this will make is easier for more people to download our Community’s great photos, such as those by our 100 Most Interesting Members.
Looking for more great Community photos to download? Check out the homepage featured archive for photos and albums!
So put on your walking shoes, grab your camera and go for a walk. You’ll be surprised at the photographic opportunities that present themselves. We’d love to see all of your photos as you can submit as many as you like!
Please tag your photos with Weekend Photo Walk 99 and then post your links in the comment section. Your entries won’t be judged—this is just for the fun of it!
This challenge will roll around just in time for that spookiest of holidays – Halloween! We had some super spooky images in the Basic Black challenge, so I’m sure you’ll find plenty of great photo opportunities for this challenge too!
OFFICIAL ENTRY RULES
To officially enter the Creative Challenge, you must tag your three submissions with creative-challenge-feelingspooky. You can then view them and everyone else’s submissions on the DISPLAY PAGE (it updates about every hour). To find out more about this, read the Using Tags on Creative Challenges post.
Submission Guidelines
1. Our editors look for sharp, clear horizontal images that are at a minimum resolution of 800×600 (submissions can have larger resolutions than this). Currently, vertical images cannot fit in the homepage template. Therefore, we cannot publish vertical or narrow panoramic images.
2. Images with added text or images, including watermarks, logos, copyright symbols, graphic borders, frames and time stamps, will not be considered for first place or being featured on the homepage at a later date. Collages, however, are acceptable. Images submitted should be your own.
3. Please do not submit pictures that have already been featured on the homepage.
4. The Creative Challenge runs from 12:01 a.m. on October 14 to 12:00 p.m. on October 26 (all times EST).
5. 3 pictures per person (regardless of how many member accounts you have) tagged exactly (including hyphens) with: creative-challenge-feelingspooky
*Note:Images that don’t meet the exact guidelines can be submitted and viewed for everyone to enjoy, but please understand that we cannot publish images that don’t meet minimum guidelines on the homepage. Also, now that you’re tagging your entries, you don’t need to post links in the comments section anymore.
NEXT CHALLENGE THEME: In My Kitchen
Our next challenge will bring us closer to home – your kitchen! From still life, food photography and action shots in the kitchen, this challenge should be interesting and fun. We love to find out more about our members and the challenges that bring us closer to where you live and what you love are some of the most fun to judge
Recently we challenged you to capture an image using mirrors or reflections. From using mirrors to capture creative angles of an object or to create a self-portrait, to mirror-like reflections in water, metal, etc., this challenge was more open to interpretation, and the entries didn’t disappoint! Congratulations to everyone who entered and to those who made our top 10!
1. Polar Bear by member bfryxell – Congratulations – Your photo will be featured on the homepage tomorrow!
2. Colorful Clouds by member thewise000
3. The Star Barn by DANMMYERS
4. Suncatcher by member lynnie440
5. O is for Orange by member arrowman617
6. Reflection in a Florida Puddle by summerjade
7. C-Krka018 by member mikejc1
8. Mantis on Mirror by member iamelmana
9. Kyoto Tower Reflected in a Hotel Window by member ericy202
10. USS Arizona Memorial by member clarkth
So put on your walking shoes, grab your camera and go for a walk. You’ll be surprised at the photographic opportunities that present themselves. We’d love to see all of your photos as you can submit as many as you like!
Please tag your photos with Weekend Photo Walk 98 and then post your links in the comment section. Your entries won’t be judged—this is just for the fun of it!
