Projects are the focal point of Picture This. They are exciting opportunities for photographers of all backgrounds to give a personal response to an original brief and build a themed gallery of unique and interesting photos.
When you take part you'll get useful comments on your work.
Some projects are inspired by the series and others are suggestions from community members. Browse the galleries now, read the brief and upload a photo to join in.
Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness
With its rich colours and vibe of impending mortality Autumn is a very photogenic season.
24 submissions
Need for Speed
With the incredible achievements of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt fresh in the mind, this project is about Speed - the speed of humans or animals but NOT machines.
29 submissions
Cover Up / Reveal
With the advent of summer clothes change, skin is flashed or protected from ultraviolet rays, fashion is paraded, colours abound. The theme is Clothes - covering up or revealing.
40 submissions
Home
A charity for the homeless has recently been in touch with Picture This which prompted the idea for this project.
48 submissions
Green Shoots
As signs of Spring start to emerge. As stock markets do their best to rally. As everyone is on the look out for indicators of recovery. Can you capture the notion of Hope photographically?
72 submissions
Seven deadly Sins
"Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!"
Thomas Kempis
54 submissions
Christmas
'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poorest man's heart thru half the year.
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
80 submissions
Cityscapes
So what do you see when you open your door???
Well I live in Liverpool’s city centre and I see buildings, buildings and more buildings. I have to make a real effort to go to capture landscapes but this is all good as I am surrounded by beautiful urban city scapes.
142 submissions
Halloween Heebie-Jeebies
All Souls' Eve or Halloween is a festival with a history stretching back many hundreds even thousands of years.
80 submissions
Reflection
And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
160 submissions
Tradition
“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.”
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
108 submissions
Summer 2008
Create an image to capture the feel and essence of the ‘Summer of 2008’.
What do you envisage, when you visualize the ‘Summer 2008’?
Your experience re-told in a picture. What happened to you? Personal experience or the world, tell your story.
138 submissions
Black & White Photography
Black and white images are often more powerful and dramatic than those in colour as if by removing one layer of reality it allows us to see others more clearly. The challenge in this project is to focus on form and composition by removing one pillar of photography - colour.
234 submissions
Street Photography
This project is based on street photography. As a genre in photography it was probably made most famous by Henri Cartier Bresson who documented images of human activity from around the world.
182 submissions
Love
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth "you owe me".
Look what happens with a Love like that!
- It lights the whole Sky.
(Hafiz)
156 submissions
Illumination
How do you feel about using photography to throw light on a subject?
This week we would like you to explore the idea of illumination.
224 submissions
Time
So much yet so little! No second or minute is the same and therefore time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science.
174 submissions
Going for a Walk
The best way to experience landscape is to walk in it. Local park, city streets, beach, open countryside or mountains; however physically easy or demanding, the walk helps us tune in to the sensations of the landscape more deeply. The pace of the walk helps us take in detail, to stop and think, and to study what we choose to with our cameras.
264 submissions
Outdoor Portraiture
A portrait is a photograph of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.
286 submissions
Beauty in the Banal
This project is all about objects that we do not necessarily take notice of. Banal photography is a fascination with the everyday object; it is an expression of using the ordinary instead of the extraordinary within an image. You could class it under many genres such as a certain shape, colour or a scene, or it could just be a certain thing that somebody could find an unfamiliar beauty in.
274 submissions
Architecture
"You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture." (20th century architect Le Corbusier)
337 submissions
Duos
Animals boarded Noah's Ark two by two. The number two is the smallest and first prime number, and the only even one. The Chinese say "Good things come in pairs".
299 submissions
Motion
Motion is everywhere; slow, fast, thick or thin; from human gestures and the crest of a wave to a motion carried.
369 submissions
Letting Go - the abstract world
By deliberately taking images out of focus, it is possible to get away from photographing a fixed object or scene and much more towards capturing pure light, colour and emotion.
342 submissions
Landscape
Ours is a world full of natural beauty which we share, yet only you can see the landscape as you see it, only you know how it makes you feel. Can you capture that moment and provoke the emotion in another? Can you take an image that makes the viewer think “Wow I've never seen that before” or “I know just what they mean”?
510 submissions
The Colour Red
"If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different."
Josef Albers (German-born American Abstract Painter and Designer. 1888-1976.)
484 submissions
Contrast
Contrast can be striking or subtle. It can be surreal, unsettling or controversial. It can convey emotion, or a political message. Sometimes, there is nothing more powerful than the coming together of that which is opposite.
413 submissions
Communication: say something without words
Do your pictures shout or whisper?
Do you have something to say or are your images a mouthpiece for others?
494 submissions
I Love Music
What's the soundtrack to your life?
What brings on those forgotten memories, and gets you onto the dancefloor?
478 submissions
Liquids
Liquids are, of course, everywhere: flowing, ebbing, glittering, elemental. It holds endless possibilities for the photographer, weather you enjoy portraits,landscapes, food or reportage there's plenty of scope for creativity with such an universal subject.
685 submissions
Decay
Try to look at the world around you from the tiny to the massive, then see how decay affects everything around us. Is decay a natual, inevitable process or a powerful metaphor for a particular concept? Let your images explore descriptive and narrative ideas. You can be really creative with this project.
981 submissions
My Passion: A Personal Project
Do this one out of passion; this personal project is your chance to make us understand what’s important to you and why. To reach out through the lens and tell the story of the thing, the place, the person that inspires you, fires you up and matters to you most.
1671 submissions
Documentary
From the cruelty of war to intimate shots of our private lives, documentary photography captures life as it really is. In this project you’re challenged to document a slice of reality and not to be afraid to let your camera expose the truth.
2101 submissions
Self-Portrait
Think of an iconic portrait, an image that embodies the essence of a person, an idea or the spirit of the times.
Then think "What if that person was me?"
1715 submissions
