#blog12daysxmas Day 8 2013 Photo a Day Challenge

2013 Photo a Day Challenge, a group on Flickr.

Just a reminder that the@Flickr 2013 Photo a Day Challenge starts
tomorrow 1 Jan! 

Follow link to join up and start posting!

#blog12daysxmas Day 5 Flickr Photo A Day Challenge

One of the things that I blogged about last year in the #blog12daysxmas challenge was the Flickr challenges that I was setting myself for the coming year, i.e. 2012. So how have I gone with them?  I signed myself up to contribute to two different challenges and in some cases was participating for more than one Flickr user.

The first challenge that I was part of was the 2012 Photo a Day Challenge that is administered by @sarahgb in the UK.  I participated in her 2011 PAD Challenge and was keen to do this one.  Of course, being a leap year it meant that I needed to do 366 photos this year.  Today I posted my 365th photo so I am nearly there! I have really loved doing this every day.  I have found that it really made to look at things around me quite differently and has also provided a good summary of the year 2012 for me to look back on.  Last year on @pollyalida's  suggestion, I made my 2011PAD photos into a Pummelvision video which I loaded on Youtube.  Here is it:



I would love to do the same for 2012 but unfortunately Pummelvision is no more so I will be looking for other options in the New Year.  So if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

I certainly loved doing the Flickr PAD in 2011 and 2012.  So I am planning on doing it again in 2013.  Maybe some of my #blog12daysxmas colleagues would like to join up?  It is a great exercise.  My friend Sarah is bowing out this year after three years worth of PAD and has handed the mantle over to me to continue.  I have set up a Flickr 2013 Photo a Day Challenge at www.flickr.com/groups/2013pad/ so just head over there and join up for the fun.  I was amazed when I did a search how many photo a day groups there are on Flickr!  But this is my one:) It has my Loupe dove (again inspired by @pollyalida) as the avatar.

#blog12daysxmas Day 4 Loupe Collages

Season's greetings! 366/351, a photo by Hecuba's Story on Flickr.

Thanks to @pollyallida I had lots of fun in the lead up to Christmas playing around with Loupe Collages.    Polly did one of her Facebook friends for a Flickr Friday Photos 2012 theme of Friends and I quickly followed up for the next weeks theme of Christmas with a festive kitteh (see below)  taken from a number of photos on my Facebook page. And then, well I guess I played around a bit. I created the one above as my virtual Christmas card: it contains the avatars of all my friends on Facebook.

If you go to the website you will see how simple it is to create a collage.  Simply choose your photos: these can come from Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, your drive or a url.  Of course, I would really have liked Flickr as that is my main place for managing my photos.  Then you choose your shape - I tried a few different ones - and the final stage is to create the collage.  Once saved, you can share it on Facebook, Pnterest, Twitter or save it on your own drive.  I just created this Ducky one as I was blogging as a homage to Polly's Ducky.

There is also a free iPhone/iPad app, called Shape Collage,  which allows you to choose photos from the device or photostream only.  There is a more limited range of shapes here, and can again share it on the device or share to Facebook, Twitter, Email or Instagram.

Enjoy playing around with this!

  

Farewell to Anzac (Martyn Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop)