What is Photo Scavenger all about?

[ysilme]

Photo Scavenger is a photo scavenger hunt community active on LiveJournal since 2009. We've newly created this sister community, which obviously is still very empty. We're looking forward to you helping us to fill it with beautiful images! For more details and the rules, see above.

Everyone is welcome.

The idea is simple: we post a prompt every week, and members respond with a photo or two that they feel captures that theme. This fits in nicely for those doing Project 365 or other related challenges you're doing, or it can be a way to dip your toe into taking more photos. We hope it will be a wonderful way to share great photos and unique views.

The weekly challenges are tagged as 'admin' as well as '20xxprompt' (according to the year), so it should be fairly easy to find them and catch up at any time. There's also a link for the prompt tag of every year in the link list for your convenience. (*)

The Rules:

• Our goal is one or two photos per post; but if you do post more than one or two, please be kind and cut.


• Photo size shouldn't be larger than 800 pixels on the long side to be mindful of users with mobile devices and limited bandwidth. If you have any difficulties with resizing your photo, please ask.


• Posts should be tagged with that week's prompt and with photographer's username. No additional tags, please.


• Only your own photos, please.


• The photos don't need to be posted on the week the prompt is given; you can catch up at any time, and with as many prompts as you like. Just remember to cut your entry if you're posting more than two photos at once.


• We want this site to suitable for a general audience. Please choose your photos accordingly. Questionable photos will be deleted at moderator's discretion.


• Please contribute to our welcoming, positive atmosphere by keeping language clean and polite.


• Membership will not be accepted for commercial or advertising journals, or for any other journals that clearly aren't personal journals.

This community was created on Livejournal in 2009 and is now joined by a sister community on Dreamwidth. We'd like to invite you to check out the contributions in both communities, and participate with your entries and feedback in both, so both communities can grow together.
Photo Scavenger on LiveJournal
Photo Scavenger on Dreamwidth

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(*) For the time being, we didn't import the LJ community here, so the old prompt lists aren't available here as well. Please check out the LJ community if you're interested.

Celebrate (white)

[ysilme]

In Germany, Mother's day is in mid May, the time when usually also everything's abloom in lilacs in our parts. My mother loves the white kind best and also has strictly forbidden to get her commercial flowers for the occasion. Since her birthday is on May 25th, mostly about a week later, she usually gets lots of white lilac cut from the bushes of family and friends, and white lilac has always represented "celebrate mum" for me. ^^

Darkness (red)

[ysilme]

On New Year's Eve, instead of the ubiquitous fireworks, we started a new tradition in 2018: lighting a candle to shine for us into the new year. We're placing it inside a big outside lantern as it's very windy in our area. This last NYE, we lit a red candle I'd made myself from leftover candles, inside our red lantern.