photo blogging challenge march 2014

One year of doing this photo challenge … who knew?

I was hoping to really come up with a set of photos to showcase the theme. I had grand ideas and ended up struggling to find photos I took this month. It’s been a long month. If you haven’t seen it or don’t know the story — I encourage you to read the post I put up last week.

So with that in mind, this month has been tough for blogging and other things for me. Mix in a busy month at work and I was behind. I did get five photos — and I’m stretching it a little here, but that’s the beauty of the challenge.

Without further adieu … here are my five for the month!

1. One foot surgery

Finally, I got the foot surgery. And I had to be in this walking boot for about two weeks.

2. One time

I’ve been taking photos of each 1,000 miles with my new car. This milestone won’t be reached again!

3. One piece makes more

At the local St. Patrick’s Day parade, this piece of candy became several.

4. One last time

This was the last time I had to get an IV in the hospital/clinic from the foot surgery. I have to give myself some good stuff, but I haven’t had to go there for anything recently.

5. One chief

Our village fire chief fishing during the St. Patty’s Day Parade.

And that’s my five for the month.

If you took part this month, make sure you link up below. And for those who participated, make sure you try and get to other people’s blogs and comment and visit so we can continue to grow this challenge.

Don’t forget, too, to come back Tuesday, April 1 and see the theme for April!

NOTE: I also set up a Facebook group for those who participate in the challenge and are interested. I’ll post any announcements there and hopefully it can be a place where things are discussed and some interaction etc. You can access it here.

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One year already?

In March of 2013, I was looking for ways to pass time and think about something else, other than a job search. So my goal was to come up with something fun that I could do with blogging.

Hence this challenge was born.

Since that time, we’ve had several people stick with it for the long haul, others have come and gone, but it’s been fun each month. Hopefully, it will continue.

So allow me to take this time to thank each and every one of you who have participated in the challenge and here is to many more months of fun challenges and cool photos! I’d love to see the challenge continue to grow and get people to keep coming in so we can have one of the coolest blogging challenges out there!

Here’s to another great month and to many more.

This month’s theme is below. Have fun!

As a reminder of a few things, let me copy and paste this from last month:

• I have an e-mail reminder list set up (which I haven’t used lately because nobody seemed to want it. I’d like to start it again, so please let me know if you want in on it). Basically, I’ll e-mail the group with about 10 days left in the month to remind you. When I remember, I’ll also shoot one out the day before the end of the month, as a reminder to post the following day. I can’t always guarantee that one though! If you are not on the list, let me know in the comments below that you would like to be on it. Note: I was bad on this … please join the Facebook group if you can. I update there more often!
• Second, I set up a Facebook group for those who are interested. Reminders and maybe some discussions or other things can be done there.
• If you haven’t already, attempt to check out everybody’s posts and consider commenting. These challenges are great for personal growth, but it’s also nice to be interactive with all the others in the challenge! That’s one of the best parts of this challenge — interacting and seeing other people’s work!

Before we hit up this month’s theme, for new people, allow me to refresh the rules a bit.

Here’s how it will work.

• On the first of each month (or close to it), I’ll have a blog post here with the theme for the month.
• Over the course of the month, participants will take photos with their interpretation of the theme. On the last day of the month (or close to it), participants should  publish their blog post, which will include five photos from the month. (please don’t recycle photos from the past … the idea is to hopefully challenge you to go out and take new photos each month to interpret the theme). And please only use photos you took.
  
• I’ll have a link-up thing at the end of my post so people can come and post the links to their posts so, hopefully, everybody can go go check out and comment on other posts.

There is no rule on equipment or anything. Use a cell phone. Use film. Use a point-and-shoot. Use a DSLR. It doesn’t matter. Just make sure you publish your blog post on the last day of each month, come here and link up.

It’s simple!

Your blog posts can be as simple or as in-depth as you want. I’ll likely talk a little about each photo. But if all you want to do is post photos, feel free. The idea of this is to give a small challenge and give everybody a chance to express themselves with photography, participate in a challenge and have something to blog about.

That’s it. Easy, right? So join in! Help us continue to grow this challenge by telling fellow bloggers/photographers about the challenge and hopefully it can become a great monthly thing!

For those still with me, this month’s theme is: One.

I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with here. There are so many ways to do this and I think there will be some great stuff. I can’t wait to see.

Please make sure your blog post publishes Monday, March 31. 

If you think you are going to take part in this, drop a comment below so we can see who all might be trying to tackle this challenge!

History of the challenge (past month’s themes – links to see everybody else’s posts are at the end of the linked post):

• March 2013: My World
• April 2013: Transportation
• May 2013: Night
• June 2013: Bridges
• July 2013: Signs
• August 2013: Summer 
• September 2013: Outdoors
• October 2013: Fall
• November 2013: People
• December 2013: Festive
• January 2014: New

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