First prize: A Fuji Instax Mini
Second prize: A $25 dollar gift card to Photojojo, the store that we are madly, insanely in love with.
Third prize: A $10 iTunes gift card, so you can download some awesome new photography apps for your iPhone.

Yes, it’s true. We are officially awesome. So please, get shooting. You are running out of time to win something fabulous. We will chose the winner based on creativity and all-around awesomeness.
Now go have fun!

We’ve certainly been hyping this challenge up enough, lol. It took us awhile to be able to get to this challenge – we wanted to do it justice and have people be able to participate. The month of January is typically slower for a photographer, so hopefully lots of people can participate in this one! We are still securing some awesome prizes for this contest – we are going to have a first, second and third place – each with a prize! So cool! But we aren’t going to tell you what they are going to be just yet. Let’s get to the challenge!

It’s up to you to make this challenge as complicated or as easy as you want. Use your iPhone, use an old Polaroid, use a Zumi, a Diana, an Instax. Use a point and shoot, use your kid’s Fisher Price digital camera. You just can’t use your regular DSLR (or SLR if you shoot film). Have fun, get creative and don’t get too serious. Don’t think about it too much, just have FUN! There are no rules except you must a different camera other than the one you normally shoot with.

We are giving you a whole month to complete this challenge. Why? Because cameras need to be found, film needs to be developed. You can enter at any time though, and we’re going to limit it to 3 entries per person and they must all be contained to the same blog post.

To enter – just post your image(s) on your blog and come here and link us in the comments section. We can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with! Winners will be revealed on February 12th!

Nope, it’s not about taking photos in forbidden places. (Although that would be a good one now that I think about it, lol) This little snap was taken with my latest camera, the Zumi, a toy camera from Japan that takes really cool photos and videos. An upcoming challenge will be about stepping away from your DSLR and all your lenses, and focusing your creative energy on a different, simpler camera. Use a Zumi, use your iPhone, cell phone, point and shoot, polaroid, etc. Get away from apertures and ISOs and just take some really creative photos. I’m posting about this a few weeks before the challenge so that if you’ve been thinking about getting a fun new little camera (my next will be the Fuji Instax) you have time to do so before this challenge. Or find your old Polaroid, or your kid’s Fisher Price digital cam.
I’ll post more ideas when it’s closer to the challenge, just wanted to get those creative thoughts going!