Photography challenges
Weekly topical challenges
| Day | Name | Description | Participation |
| Monday | Moody monday |
In english. Single-word subject. Competitive. ~50 participants. Exposure date not set. Running since 2004. | Yes. |
| Monday | Weekend Snapshot |
In english. Just a generic shot taken on the previous weekend. No registration. Not competitive. ~50 participants. Exposure date not set. Running since 2007. |
No. |
| Tuesday | Two 4 Tuesday |
In english. Two themes – use either a single picture to cover either or both, or two pictures for both. Competitive. ~ 40 participants. Exposure date not set. Running since 2009. |
yes. |
| Wednesday | Lensday |
In english. Single-word subject (seems to be, the 4 year archives were wiped in february). No registration needed. ~50 participants. Exposure seems to be after the challenge (not enforced). |
No. |
| Wednesday | Photosharks |
In english. Single-word subject. No registration needed. ~50 participants. Exposure seems to be after the challenge (not enforced). |
No. |
| Wednesday | Who Do You Love |
In english. Single word subjects. ~10 participants. Exposure date not set. |
No. |
| Wednesday | ABC Wednesday |
In english. Subjects whose name begins with a given letter (multiple images per participant OK). Manually administered in a blog (seems complex). ~100 participats. Exposure date not set. |
No. |
| Thursday | valokuvatorstai |
In finnish. Very variable subjects. No registration needed. Not competitive. ~150 participants. Exposure date not set. |
Almost every week. |
| Thursday | Thursday Challenge |
In english. Single-word topics. No registration needed. Competitive. ~100 participants. Exposure date not set. |
Almost every week. |
| Friday | Photo Friday |
In english. Variable topics. No registration needed. Competitive. ~400 participants. Exposure date not set. |
Almost every week. |
| Friday | Monochrome Friday |
In english. Single word topics, to be rendered in black&white. No registration. Not competitive. ~15 participants. Exposure date not set. |
No. |
| Saturday | Shutterday |
In english. Usually single-word topics. No registration needed. Competitive. ~50 participants. Exposure date not set. |
No. |
| Saturday | Unique Exposures |
In english. Variable topics. No registration needed. Competitive. ~30 participants. Exposure date not set. |
No. |
| Saturday | Yy kaa koo 4 |
In finnish. A single number. No registration. Competitive. ~50 participants. Exposure date not set. |
Yes. |
| Sunday | MacroDay |
In english. Usually single-word topics, always macro-related. No registration needed. Competitive. ~30 participants. Exposure date not set. |
Almost every week. |
| Sunday | See It Sunday |
In english. Usually single-word topics. No registration needed. Competitive. ~30 participants. Exposure date not set. |
Yes. |
Other challenges
| Day | Name | Description | Participation |
| Monday | Monochrome monday |
In english. Non-topical, just a collection of monochrome pictures. No registration. Not competitive. ~50 participants. Exposure date not set. |
No. |
| Monday | JorjDotOrg PhotoHunt |
In english. Competition, consists of multi-week seasons. Single-word subject. Registration needed. ~20 participants. Exposure after the challenge (not enforced). | No. |
| Friday | Skywatch Friday |
In english. No topic, pictures with sky featured in them. No registration. Not competitive. ~350 participants. Exposure date not set. |
No. |
| Friday | Dr. Cason’s Friday Photo Challenge |
In english. Topic used for a single month. No registration. Competitive. Unknown # of participants. Exposure date not set. |
No. |
| Daily | Wordless Wednesday |
In english. No topic. No registration. Not competitive. ~30 participants. Exposure date not set. |
No. |
| Monthly | 26 things |
In english. Photograph 26 elements per month. No registration. Not competitive. ~20 participants. Exposure date set. |
No. |
Multiple simultaneous challenges
| Day | Name | Description | Participation |
| Multiple days | dpreview |
In english. Multiple simultaneous topics. Registration needed. Competitive. ~400 participants. Exposure date setting on a per-challenge basis. |
No. |
| Multiple days | inspi.re |
In english. Multiple simultaneous topics. Registration needed. Competitive. ~20 participants. Exposure date set?. |
No. |
| Multiple days | DPChallenge |
In english. Vey variable topics. Registration needed. Seriously competitive (disqualifications happen). ~300 participants. Exposure date set (and enforced). |
No. |
Defunct challenges
| Day | Name | Description | Participation |
| Tuesday | Tuesday challenge | Missing in action. | No. |
| Irregular | Pixos |
Seems to be defunct. In english. Single topic (can submit up to six images). No registration. Not competitive. A few participants. Exposure date not set. |
No. |
Other collections
History
11.3.2009: Moved content from the original blog entry to this page.
14.3.2009: Added photomemes.org.
22.3.2009: Added WDYL.
rafaj:
hi. there’s another one to add to the list :-)
http://wdyl.jafar.com/
March 22, 2009, 22:02