Dec 4, 2014 / Beginner

That’s a Wrap: A Snapshot of November’s Photo 101 Course

Thanks to all who participated in Photography 101: A Photo a Day.

<a href="http://tofollowarrows.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/photography-101-architecture/">Photography 101: Architecture</a>, <i><a href="http://tofollowarrows.wordpress.com/">Solo Cose Belle</a></i>

As I’d mentioned in the final Photography 101 post, congratulations again to participants in our first-ever Blogging U. course dedicated to photoblogging. November proved to be a fun, busy month of picture-taking and blog posting, and we hope you enjoyed meeting other bloggers in the Commons and pushing yourself to meet your daily publishing goals.

Throughout November, we were excited to see a wide range of participants — from brand-new bloggers to veteran photographers — connect, teach, and learn from one another. We also enjoyed seeing different interpretations of the daily themes, from your locations all over the world.

A wonderful interpretation of swarm: Synchronous Swarm, Mitch Zeissler, Exploratorius

We plan to run this course again, as well as new 201-level courses focused on different elements of photography. Throughout the month, we noted your feedback on the assortment of themes and tips, as well as the course pacing and format. We’ll keep this is mind as we develop future photoblogging courses, though it’s worth noting that various restrictions — from your location to lack of time — pushed you to approach themes in unexpected, inventive ways. Ultimately, we want to challenge you!

One of the images in a gallery of Mount Washington, New Hampshire by Jeff Sinon, in response to the landmark theme.

If you weren’t able to participate on some days, or want to revisit any of the themes, you can access the entire list of themes on the Photo 101: A Photo a Day course page. In the meantime, while The Daily Post staff cooks up something new, what can you do post-course to keep that Photo 101 momentum? Here are some ideas:

Organize and display your Photography 101 posts on your blog: If you have a Photo 101 category, add this category page to your custom menu. (If you don’t already have a Photo 101 category, create one in your dashboard, and then go through your Photo 101 posts and add your newly created category to each of them.) You can also publish a new page dedicated to your Photography 101 content and organize it however you’d like; for example, Doug Warren created a calendar with links to his submissions.

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My Diary, Glass
Cardinal Guzman, Landscape
Joel Locaylocay Photography, Double
On Pets and Prisoners, Edge

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Hone your gallery-making skills:  We’re especially happy to see different types of galleries in your wrap-up posts: a tiled gallery at Angle and Views, the square tiles in Crisisalive‘s “It’s a Wrap Up,” a slideshow at Lucile de Godoy’s blog, and the circles option at Life in Frame and The Changing Palette. We hope the course has pushed you to experiment more with different gallery options.

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This Is My Iron Lung, Architecture
This Melbourne Life, Water
Ruling the Third, The Natural World
Not a Punk Rocker, Connect
From Hiding to Blogging, Edge

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Use your images in creative ways: You can do so much more than simply display photos in blog posts. After a month of daily assignments, you have many images to work with! Flip through your horizontal and landscape-oriented shots for possible custom header images. Or, use one of your images as the background for a custom image widget. You might find multiple uses for that one favorite photograph you took in November.

A moody monochromatic image by Geophilia Photography, submitted for the mystery theme.

Join another photography challenge: Search our event listings for photo-related blogging events and challenges hosted by bloggers in the community. You can browse event listings in the Photography & Visual Arts section and use the “Frequency” dropdown menu to filter the results.

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Sada Wayans, A Pop of Color
JTAZAN, Solitude
Belgrade Streets, Glass
Mara Eastern, A Pop of Color
Blogging Translator, Glass

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Thanks for joining us on this journey and using your cameras as tools to tell visual stories. We welcome your course feedback in the comments. Stay tuned for more photo-focused courses at Blogging U. in 2015!

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  1. The whole thing was a lot of fun. I got to see a lot of great photography throughout the month. I hope you’ll be doing some more Photo 101 type stuff in the future!

    And thanks for including some of my images in the wrap up!

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  4. Oh wow, thank you for including me in the wrap up!

    I was too late signing up this time around so couldn’t access the commons – I’m looking forward to being able to interact with others in the next one!

    Also, I’ve definitely learnt to enjoy posting consistently from this course – thank you 🙂

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  5. I have missed not having this challenge this month! I just got a brand new Nikon D5200 ~ big change from the point & click! So I will be learning all that I can to be ready for January! I have learned so much through this blog and hopefully it shows in my pictures.

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  8. Thank you for the course and for picking one of my images for this wrap-up post, this means a lot to me! I enjoyed the course very much and the assignments were just the right degree of challenging for me. The only thing I regret is that I didn’t participate in the discussions in the Commons. Well, I won’t miss this opportunity next time. 🙂

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  11. Really enjoyed that. Didn’t get a chance to get out on the day and explore to meet the topics, but was interesting to re-appraise my history of snaps with a new “lens” … and one of my photos made it to your wrap-up. 😄

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