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📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE – November 2020: “Pottery” and “Wharves, Docks, and Piers”

5 November 2020 by Bob O'Hara

Click to: riverhouses.org/2020-11-photos

Calling all homeschool photographers! One of the independent projects we recommend to homeschool students is the monthly Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge. The November challenge is now open and the announced themes are “Pottery” and “Wharves, Docks, and Piers.” You can see sample photos and learn how to submit an entry here:

  • ➢ Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge – Open Themes (updated monthly)

The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge encourages people to take and submit high-quality images for the public Wikimedia Commons database, the source from which most of the images in Wikipedia are drawn. Once you’ve registered and submitted an entry, you can also participate in the selection of future themes and in the voting for the monthly winners.

A sample entry for the theme “Pottery” from this month’s Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge. (Image: Wikimedia Commons.)

If you have talented young photographers in your home academy, why not encourage them to sign up and submit an entry. Working on a specific theme over a period of a few weeks is a great way for students to develop both their technical camera skills and their visual composition skills. And if you submit a number of entries over time you can build up a personal portfolio page to show off your work — that would be good experience in how to create a professional presentation of yourself for future employment or college admissions.

A sample entry for the theme “Wharves, Docks, and Piers” from this month’s Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge. (Image: Wikimedia Commons.)

You can find more ideas for independent homeschool projects in a wide range of scientific and scholarly fields on our River Houses Lunar Society page (riverhouses.org/lunar).

What photographic, artistic, and scientific discoveries have you been making in your homeschool this Cygnus Term? 😊

❡ Explore more: Your recommended world almanac (riverhouses.org/books) has a long list of famous artists on pages 177–180, and that list includes famous photographers. Why not pick out a name or two to research each month, either online or on your next visit to your local library — it would be a great way to give your students a little extra photographic inspiration! 📸

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