January 2015 | Week One | Photo A Day Challenge

Happy New Year!

How are you? I want to say that I hope you’re not nursing a hangover, but I hope that at least some of us are and have had the most awesome night to end 2014.

Hangover or not, it’s time to kick off a whole new year of photo-taking. This year the lists will be released each week, so you can play for a week, for a month, for a whole year… you choose!

Everything you need to know on how to play is below, but pop any questions in the comments and I’ll get back to you.

Here’s all the juicy and necessary details on how to play

How to play on Instagram

+ check out the photo a day list for the daily prompt
+ use your phone or camera to take a photo using the prompt as inspiration
+ upload the photo to Instagram, add a caption {you could mention the day and the prompt in the caption}, add the hashtag #FMSphotoaday and then publish.

+ check out the #fmsphotoaday hashtag to see all the other photos. Like them. Comment on them. Be part of the community.

+ Each day a Fab Four is picked from the photos shared on Instagram for the challenge. It’s four photos that have captured my attention from each prompt. Check my feed {@fatmumslim} to see the photos.

How to play on Facebook

+ check out the photo a day list for the daily prompt
+ use your phone or camera to take a photo using the prompt as inspiration
+ upload the photo to Facebook – you can either share on your personal page, on your business page {if you have one} or in our Facebook Photo A Day group {you’ll be added within 12 hours of requesting}, add a caption {you could mention the day and the prompt in the caption} and then publish.

+ check out the photos shared in the group, or among your friends. Comment, like and be part of the photo-taking community.

+ Each day a Fab Four is picked from the photos shared in our Facebook group for the challenge by our lovely admin team. It’s four {or more} photos that have captured my attention from each prompt. The photos are made into a collage, shared and pinned to the top of the group.

How to remember what the prompts are

+ If you’re a lucky iPhone or iPad owner, you can use the Little Moments App to remind you of what the prompts are, as well as make your photos a bit fancy. You can grab the App here.
+ For all devices and PC, we upload the prompts which you can download automatically into your phone or PC calendar. For Smartphones & Mac Calendar, click here. For HTML for web viewing, click here.
+ You can also print out the list, save it as your screensaver or save it to your camera roll.

A little more about the prompts

Some people like a little help with the prompts, and interpreting them into a photo. There are no rules so take a photo of whatever you like, interpreting the prompt into whatever you will. Here’s what I was thinking when I created the list:

WEEK ONE | JANUARY | 2015
1. The sky
Happy New Year! Look Up. Snap a photo and share your first photo of the year.
2. Something yellow
Find something yellow as you go about your day today. Is it a banana, or the sun or is that other yellow thing that you saw?
3. Me today
Take a photo of you. It can be creative {your feet, your shadow, your reflection} or as straight-up as a selfie!
4. I hear…
What can you hear today? The ocean? The kids laughing? That annoying bird that keeps chirping outside your window. Snap a photo and share it.

And off you go. Take your first photo and share it. I’m sorry {not sorry} if you accidentally get hooked on this photo-taking gig. xx