Two weeks ago I got an email with the next photo challenge:
Yes – it’s that time of year again where we have a two-week Challenge for the holidays. Kirsty suggested this week’s Challenge.
As of today, there are twelve days until Christmas. I ask you to take one photo for each of the twelve days leading up to Christmas Day. How you do this is up to you – it could be a documentary shot of what you do each day as you prepare for Christmas, landscape photographs, or something else entirely. Mega bonus points to anyone who manages to take photos for each line of the song
Strictly speaking, each photo should be taken on each of the twelve days but at this busy time of year it’s fine if you want to send in twelve random pictures. When you send in your pictures, emails that are too large might get rejected, so if this happens to you, send one or two photos in each email. Better yet, resize them online (width 1024 pixels please) and send me the resized versions which should all fit in one email, or upload them on your own blog, Flickr page or (public) Facebook album and send me a link. The deadline for this Challenge is noon on the 27th December, so there are a couple more days than photos. If you don’t manage the full dozen, that’s OK, just send in whatever you produced. I’ll aim to publish the results on the 27th but I haven’t quite decided on the format, nor do I know how busy/drunk/lazy I will be.
So I started working on some pictures. I have enough Christmas pictures so that should not be a problem. But then I started reading the challenge again… and again… And I started searching for the original song. I just couldnt believe someone would have a peertree with a bird in it. Or a specific number of horsemen.
This was never going to work for me. But I hate to miss a challenge. And on the other side, I love doing challenges. Instead of taking pictures that work with the lines of the song, I just used pictures that have a Christmas meaning to me or were taking on or around Christmas.
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- I was playing with my GF’s daughter a few days ago and I saw the same boys I saw in the summer. But this time in thick winter coats. Winter and Christmas are coming.
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- I love walking around in a house that is decorated in the Christmas spirit. It ads something. A feeling. Christmas isn’t Christmas without decorating. Some people don’t stop after putting the tree up, or hanging some bells around the house. No, the buy complete city’s. You have to love it. Its nothing for me.
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- For some family’s its a tradition to give each other presents on Christmas. Kids get over excited when the receive the present the always wanted. Like a electric racetrack with cars going around with the speed of light. I’m 31, but I still love this stuff. I’ll never grow up.
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- Walking around in a city center, trying to find the right gift for the right person, or just enjoying decorations, is fun. And more fun when you have someone playing music for you.
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- When you get together on Christmas with your family, there is a great change you will be eating together. And when you have a partner you have a extra family to visit. And more to eat. And eating together with the whole family, that’s Christmas. Beeing together is the most important.
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- Nearing the end of the year, birds are getting out of the country (Netherlands) and flying to the south, searching for a warmer spot. These are geese and when the fly over your head, you want to be sure you are standing under something. Such a larg group of flying birds reminds you the real winter has still to come.
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- We finaly had some snow the last few days. But when it had hit the ground, it started melting allready. In the evening, the half melted snow started to freeze again. Christmas isn’t Christmas without snow… But this is not the snow I mean.
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- Although the winter hasn’t realy arrived here yet, there are still nights that bring frost. And there is nothing more worse then getting out of bed, standing next to a car and see that it’s frozen solid. But hey, it’s still a sign that Christmas and winter are coming.
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- It’s nothing you can do about, but we celebrate Christmas in winter. So, it’s cold, rainy, and just plain ugly weather. Roads get dirty. But hey, it’s Christmas!!. To bad it’s not show that’s laying on the roads.
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- This is a picture I took in the city, before a shop. I loved the colors, white and cerry red. For some reason, those are the Christmascolors. I love them.
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- I don’t mind walking around in a city, searching for stuff, going in and out of the shops, but what I dislike is walking around in a heated shoppingmall that is full of people, walking shoulder to shoulder. That has no Christmasfeeling at all. But hey, they did spend a lot of work on al of that decoration.
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- Walking around in a local museum and seeing hundreds of these around, with people warming themselves up around them, that’s the Christmassfeeling. No hatred or fighting, just everyone talking and having fun. That’s something that makes me feel all warm inside.
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