Past f/64 Challenges

Click a month below to view entries and awards from past challenges.

2024:

• "Macro/Close-Up Insect"
• "Patterns"
• "Silhouette"
• "High Key"
• "Tree (or part of a tree)"
• "Image of an iconic location in Coastal Virginia - A Good Representation of Coastal VA"
• "Composite Image (double exposure or layered)"
• "Night"

2023:

• "Photographer's Choice"
• "Intentional Camera Movement"
• "Geometry in Architecture"
• "Taken in the Rain"
• "Refraction"
• "Backlighting"
• "Photographers Choice (no time limit)"
• "Minimalism"
• "Illustrate a Season (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter)"
• "People/Person (not portrait or posed)"
• "Abstract Close Up / Macro"
• "Night"

2022:

• "Good Enough to Eat / Looks Delicious"
• "Eyes"
• "Best Photo Within 1/2 Mile of Your Home"
• "Bokeh (the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out of focus parts of the image)"
• "Reflection(s)"
• "Flower"
• "Sunrise / Sunset"
• "Negative Space"
• "Black & White (NO TIME LIMIT on when photo was taken)"
• "Someone at Work"
• "Portrait (keep it anonymous - nobody we know)"
• "Flat Lay Still Life"

2021:

• "Toy (straight out of the camera – no editing)"
• "Night Photography"
• "Boat/Sailing"
• "Single Color (monochromatic but not B&W)"
• "Long Exposure Landscape"
• "Movement / Motion"
• "Something Involving Water"
• "Reflections"
• "Musical Instrument"
• "Doorway / Entrance"
• "Show Scale"
• "Leading Lines"

2020:

• "Tools or Utensils"
• "Textures or Patterns"
• "Related to Food / Something Edible"
• "Black and White"
• "Birds, Insects or Critters Around Your House"
• "Using Shadows"
• "Photographer's Choice (no time limit)"
• "Spring Flowers"
• "At Home - Inside or Outside But on Your Property"
• "Emotion (create an image with an emotional impact)"
• "Alphabet Soup – something that resembles a letter of the alphabet"
• "Candlelight (subject matter lit only by candlelight)"

2019:

• "Church Architecture"
• "Pathway (your image must contain a pathway)"
• "Strictly Skies/Clouds (nothing else in shot)"
• "Farmer's Market"
• "Long Exposure - Day or Night"
• "Photographer's Choice - no time limit"
• "Juxtaposition / Things That Don't Belong Together"
• "Worms Eye view"
• "Wild Kingdom / Animal Planet" - no time restriction
• "Cell phone image of something miniature" - taken within the month of challenge
• "Interpret an Elvis song"
• "Shadow/Silhouette"

2018:

• "Negative Space / Minimalist image"
• "Forms in Nature"
• "Architecture in Tidewater (defined as far as Richmond): Recognizable, Historical, or Noteworthy"
• "At the Beach: Sand and/or Recreation"
• "Flower: Perfection or Transition"
• "Birds, Butterflies, and Bees - Oh My"
• "Friendly Faces- People or Pets"
• "Sculpture / Monument / Headstone"
• "Travel: Sense of Place" - Not Hampton Roads - No Time Limit
• "Reflections"
• "Color With One Dominant Color"
• "Interpret a Beatle Song" - Song Title Included

2017:

• "Lighthouses"
• "Wildlife" - Not Captive
• "Leaves/Foliage"
• "Macro/Close Up of an Insect"
• "Framed"
• "Photographer's Choice"
• "Architecture / Architecture Detail"
• "Holidays"
• "Macro of Flower / Shell / Sea Life"
• "Black & White/High Contrast"
• "Cityscape / Street Scene/ On the Road / Automobile of Interest / Wheeled Transportation"
• "Water Drops / Rain / Dew/ Ice / Fountains / Sea Spray / Sprinklers / Silky Water / Underwater"

2016:

• "Weather / After the Rain / Cloudscape"
• Winners are correct names but are we sure these are correct pictures? Interpretation of a Famous Quote
• "Portraits: Anonymous, Faces, Groups, and/or Moods"
• Winners are correct name but which pictures? "Night/Long Exposure"
• "Pets / Animals / Wildlife / Feathers"
• "Light"
• "Photographer's Choice" - No Processing
• "Landscapes / Seascapes"
• "Reflections"
• "Piers and Bridges"
• "Photographer's Choice"
• "Still Life"

2015:

• "Patterns"
• "Macro/Close Up"
• "Photographer's Choice" - No Time Limit
• "Architecture"
• "Dawn or Dusk" - No Digital Revisions
• "In the Garden"
• "Moon"
• "Photographer's Choice"
• "Wings"
• "Photographer's Choice"
• "Wildlife"
• "Photographer's Choice"

2014:

• "Fall Colors"
• "Photographer's Choice"
• "The Human Element"
• "Photographer's Choice"
• "Close-up or Macro"
• "Photographer's Choice"
• "Harborfest / Special Events"
• "Black and White"
• "Water Features"
• "Hint of Color"
• "Contre-jour, backlighting"