Themes for next year's 52

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Phew !!!
Almost at the end of this year's 52 and while Simon's original bag of themes has kept us going for the last four years it's starting to look a bit depleted now.

So here's your opportunity to help torture challenge next year's participants.
Add any suggestions that you have for themes below and they'll all make it into the bag for next year. No guarantee that they'll get drawn in 2013 - the last list managed to see us through 4 years !!!

Also happy to look at any suggestions to improve the 52 format.
We're already trialling the "pictures only thread", but anything else that will make it better?
 
The only things I can think of to improve it would be occasional (or regular!) feedback from people not doing the challenge, such as mods, or those judging the POTY etc. The single photo's thread would make that easier, but I don't know how we'd encourage it?

Theme ideas (no idea if they've been done before):

Flash, fade, moist, hate, surprise, message, evolve, tough, lust (but NSFW banned), loyalty, false, split, fashion, news, tacky, smart, despair, routine, question, solitude, game, comfort, want, value, confused, remote, cold, hot.
 
Progress, anger, down, theme, out, in, cook, season, crowd, wild, pass, camera eye, myth, space, radio, synthetic, speed, match, record, personal, safe, internet, below, power.

There you go, that's 52. I'll get on with mine now ;)
 
michael23 said:
juxtaposition, fizz, wild, out of control, old and new (together), gravity, despicable, locked in ice
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Wild is mine, get off!, ;)

But you have inspired "plagiarise"!

superpippo said:
Crikey Mark, you are energetic

In recognition of this, I think that I will start with :

...mark :D
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Good one, though I think it gives me an unfair advantage!

Thus inspiring "cheat"!
 
Southdowns said:
The only things I can think of to improve it would be occasional (or regular!) feedback from people not doing the challenge, such as mods, or those judging the POTY etc. The single photo's thread would make that easier, but I don't know how we'd encourage it?
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Leave that one with me Mark.
It's something that we've been talking about in the staffroom - not just for the 52s but for all of the community type challenges and for the critique sections in general. There are a few ideas knocking about on how to promote this sort of thing more.

For my part, I'll make a personal commitment to be more visible in the threads next year.
It's been a horrible last 6 months for me, but once the next couple of weeks are out of the way there should be some sort of normality restored chez Sarah and I'll have more time for critique :D
 
SarahLee said:
(I can see that I'm going to have my work cut out writing all of these down on cards!)
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Copy - paste - print - scissors :)

(Not theme suggestions, but they could be!)
 
SarahLee said:
It's been a horrible last 6 months for me, but once the next couple of weeks are out of the way there should be some sort of normality restored chez Sarah and I'll have more time for critique :D
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Then I think you're definitely owed a big thank you for keeping the 52 going in 2012; I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed it and learned from it, in my first year into photography :)

Three cheers for Sarah; Hip Hip......
 
Hip Hip....
 
(This is moving slower than I'd hoped, but it'd be embarrassing to stop now!) Hip Hip....
 
Hooray? :lol:

Any ideas on where and when to sign up for next year?
 
Cheers - I'm hoping this will help with inspiration and motivation :)
 
:lol: Thanks for the cheers guys.

Dan,
There'll be a new sign up thread going up for 2013 soon.
I really hope that you join in. It's hard going at times, but very rewarding and it forces you to get out with your camera.

(Actually, to be precise it'll be started in 10 days and 1 hour's time once I FINALLY finish break up from work for Christmas :banana: :banana: :banana:)
 
Hi hope im not hijacking the forum with this post! Ive been waiting for about the last 2 month for the end of the year to start a 52. How do you go about this i.e will there be a dedicated list to follow? Ive seen the two links just looking for a little more info.

Cheers Lee
 
michael23 said:
The area to start your thread will be in the 52 section here

And the 2013 join in thread will be a stick y in here Once it is set up.
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Dacmirc said:
Hi hope im not hijacking the forum with this post! Ive been waiting for about the last 2 month for the end of the year to start a 52. How do you go about this i.e will there be a dedicated list to follow? Ive seen the two links just looking for a little more info.

Cheers Lee
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Hi Lee, welcome into the wnderful and mad world of the 52 week project :thumbs:

Basically we have 1 big discussion thread where all of the themes are posted. Each week a theme will drawn at random and posted at the start of the week. This is currently done by SarahLee. These will be put on the 1st post as well. This is this years thread which will give you an idea of the layout.

We are currently trying out a single thread for image submission at the moment. This way it makes it easier for keeping up with images posted since our last visit. We will of course have the pics in our own threads too.

The links you saw above will be where the discussion thread goes and the other where our threads will go.

Hope that makes sense :thumbs:
 
SarahLee said:
:lol: Thanks for the cheers guys.

Dan,
There'll be a new sign up thread going up for 2013 soon.
I really hope that you join in. It's hard going at times, but very rewarding and it forces you to get out with your camera.

(Actually, to be precise it'll be started in 10 days and 1 hour's time once I FINALLY finish break up from work for Christmas :banana: :banana: :banana:)
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Great stuff can't wait!
 
birrew said:
is there a thread to sigh up for next years 52?...would really like to try it
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Not yet, but keep an eye out and there will be :)
 
I may give it a try, It'll get me out and about. If I do, my theme will be the canal, as I live a mile from the Trent and Mersey and 8 miles from the Shropshire Union.
 
I am thinking to give this a go as I would like something to get the creative juices flowing.....
 
I know what you mean Kate. If I HAD to get out and take photos, It would benefit me and my learning.
 
I have to tell you, I've learned more from this (this has been my first year into photography), than I recon I could have from any number of books or courses. Just the fact that it forces you to think about your shot before you take it is enough to make it worthwhile.

Go for it; you won't regret it :)
 
But, we need more themes, ideas?
 
Submerge, Bling, Flabbergasted, Chuckle, Value, Queer, Linked, Issues, Kind, Ethereal, Buzz, Squash, Screw, Whimsical.

Enough for now. Some hard ones and some easy ones :D

BTW, when do we start?

:bat:

Cheers all.
 
Southdowns said:
I have to tell you, I've learned more from this (this has been my first year into photography), than I recon I could have from any number of books or courses. Just the fact that it forces you to think about your shot before you take it is enough to make it worthwhile.

Go for it; you won't regret it :)
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Seriously? that makes me more determind to try!


Letters? rust? darkness? emotion? angles?
 
I'm not sure it's a rule as such Jamie, but I think they work best when they're single words. Leaves more to the imagination that way. So how about just "sin".
 
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