Google+ Daily Photography Themes

A look at how pho­to­graphy on Google+ is or­gan­ised by its unique daily pho­to­graphy themes. Also a quick list of the active daily themes on Google+. (Many thanks to Ray Bilcliff for the list.)

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This is part 3 of a 7-part art­icle series on Google+. Read the others here:

I have often re­marked how Google+ is better than Facebook in more ways than one. Perhaps I will have to high­light this point now–and add that here on Google+ we are also a little (read: lot) more cre­at­ively organised–when it comes to pho­to­graphy and/or photo sharing.

Photographs shared on Google+ (and that issue of how Google re­tained copy­rights to photos you shared, now being quite dead) are or­gan­ised into what we call themes. These themes are based on the days of the week and are often cur­ated by one or a small group of people who have con­sid­er­able fol­lowing (and time, if I may add.)

What daily themes are and how one can use them

Now the concept is simple: you can pick a theme (today is Saturday so I shall pick one of today’s themes) say, Sunset Saturday. Then post a pho­to­graph as re­quired by that theme. In this case, of course, the de­scrip­tion is quite clear to be sunset, but other themes may re­quire some reading; or there are ob­vious themes pointing in ob­vious dir­ec­tions which to some may not be ap­parent. For in­stance  Benno Dielmann’s Rolling Shutter Saturday which ob­vi­ously re­quires you to click pho­to­graphs using the rolling shutter tech­niques (which many people have no idea of. Trust me, I can name a few.)

Alright, once you have picked a theme and a pho­to­graph as­so­ci­ated with it, share it on Google+ keeping in mind a un­anym­ously agreed upon norm: you have to add this little piece of text to your post–(#Theme) cur­ated by (+Curator/s)–without the par­en­thesis, of course.

Here is one of my pho­to­graphs I put up a few minutes ago.

One last thing wish to men­tion is that while these themes are a fun activity, do not let them hinder your posting. If you have a pic­ture that does not con­form to the day’s theme (or if you have one but do not wish to post it!) never mind! These are just a neat way to stumble upon more pho­to­graphs and they be­nefit you in a great many ways which I shall let you dis­cover all by yourself!

Below is a list of active daily themes cur­ated by some fun people (take a look at the cur­ators too!) I did not com­pile this list, Ray Bilcliff did, on his blog, and I ap­pre­ciate his ef­forts; there­fore I have de­cided not to up­date this fur­ther: if you ar­rived here a long time after I pub­lished this, I sug­gest you go straight to True Portraits of Nature and take a look at Ray’s won­derful list (he’s kept it up­dated) and con­tribute to the im­pressive list of themes he, him­self, is curating.

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

You might also want to circle Daily Photography Themes on Google+. It is a age ded­ic­ated to this topic, also ac­ces­ible via #DPT.

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About V. H. Belvadi

is an aspiring physicist, writer, amateur photographer and fiddler who loves to spend his time either understanding humankind (in vain) or writing novels, screenplays and chronicling his satirical views of life; he reviews literature, the entertainment world and global economy, on his website VHBelvadi.com.
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Comments

  1. Meg Rousher says:

    Hi.

    A new theme was born today called VintageCameraTuesday (photos of vin­tage cam­eras) cur­ated by Meg Rousher, Gerhard Müller & Manfred Berndtgen.

    Please add it to your list when you have time.

    Thank you

    Meg

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