52-Week Photography Challenge Gallery 2026

#52WeekChallenge:

Please send your submissions for each week to rlduffill@gmail.com, including the week number and titles.

A Bug’s Life: Get in the garden and take a photograph of a butterfly, insect or bug. Whether you show its environment is up to you.

Advanced: Try a Macro, or a moving/flying subject.

Flower and butterfly photo of the day 6 — Flower and butterfly by Ray Duffill

Flying Dragonfly flight shadow — Flower and butterfly by Ray Duffill

Explosion of Colour: Your photo should assail the senses with vibrant colour. Any saturation of the colours in editing software should be avoided.

Advanced: This is really advanced… depict a really colourful scene… in black & white!

Halfway Journey: It’s Week 26, which means we’re halfway through this challenge year. Make an image with text that shows us what you feel you have learned about photography so far this year.

Expect the unexpected image shows a Hull cream-coloured telephone box in front of a painted wall mural. There are unexpected artefacts in the image probably caused by light leaks in the film camera used to take the shot; a streak of white light across the right-hand side of the picture, and red fringing along the bottom edge. — Expect the unexpected by Ray Duffill

Make a Splash: Take a close-up of a droplet splashing into water. It’s an old favourite photography project, but there is a lot to learn every time you do it. Advanced: Use a liquid other than water.

A Photo that shows a splash in water with a lit green background. — Splash!

RANDOM BIRD: Your challenge this week is to get a good picture of the first wild bird you see while out with your camera. See a wood pigeon? That’s your bird – plan, prepare and go get the shot!

Advanced: Your bird should be the first one you see in flight.

Magpie TV aerial and flying bird silhouette by Ray Duffill e1689401585647 — Magpie TV aerial and flying bird silhouette by Ray Duffill.

Robin young bird on post looking left. — Magpie TV aerial and flying bird silhouette by Ray Duffill.

Sugar & Spice: Artistic. Interpret how you like.

Advanced: A still life.

Cinnamon sticks by Ray Duffill — Sugar and Spice by Ray Duffill

Week 22 – LEVITATION!

Week 21 – Intentional Camera Movement (ICM)

Week 20 – Leading Lines

‘Leading lines’ is a compositional technique in which lines in your image guide the viewer’s eyes to the main subject of the photograph. Discover such lines in the natural environment or urban landscape.

Advanced: Your lines in your photo should add depth and perspective to an image.

Leading Lines 2 by Rob Stirling — Leading Lines 1 by Rob Stirling

Week 19 – One Shot (Your Next Shot)

You’ve got only one shot (imagine it’s a film camera) –no chance for a second shot! Think about this challenge the next time you take a photo. Show us this, your first shot (even if you do sneak off a few more).

Advanced: We mean it! Your next, one and only shot!

Street view of an English town with a church tower, shops, cars, and people walking — Grandson River by Janet Bucknall

Week 18 – Landscape (or Cityscape)

Week 17 – Abandoned

Week 16 – Panning

Week 15 – Patterns

Week 14 – Triptych

Triptych: Show us three photos of the same scene. One to set the scene. One as the main subject. And one to highlight something we may have missed!

Advanced: We want the three photos in the same frame.