I admit that no quote sprang to mind when I
thought of challenges. How would it? The only reading I have got done in the
last two years is the latest Harry Potter book. So, I googled for it and found
an intriguing one in the form of a meme. “Don’t limit your challenges.
Challenge your limits.”
Nice, I do think a "7-day landscape
photograph challenge" is challenging enough for me. It may be somewhat of a limited
challenge to so many of our semi-pro or full-pro photographers of today, but it
does challenge some people’s limits.
I do know a bit about different kinds of
sarees because of going shopping with the ladies at home, but I am no expert
because I don’t wear sarees. Still I suppose a "100-saree photo challenge" isn’t
bad as a challenge. I mean, it does challenge the coolness quotient of the “I
don’t wear sarees yaa!” tribe and makes ladies proudly carry forward the
tradition as well as be hip doing it.
Tell me though, but what stretch of
imagination, on which scale, under what circumstances, is a “Post a B&W
photo with your spouse on Facebook” a challenge?!
It severely limits your challenges and does not challenge any limits.
It severely limits your challenges and does not challenge any limits.
If you are in speaking terms with your
spouse despite the different social media sites you are both active on, if your
spouse is a selfie-bug just like you, if you have even some old camera app which
has a B&W setting or even if you have an old picture with your spouse from
the days before smartphones, any post-processing app has a ready B&W
filter and you can easily post a B&W photo with your spouse. What is
challenging about it?!
If you give this challenge to single people
– for example “Find a spouse in 7 days and post a B&W photo with them
challenge”, that would be a real challenge now!
A really good one to challenge your limits
would be – "Find a film camera, find a B&W film roll, take a picture with
your spouse using such a camera, find the required processing material and
develop it yourself in a dark-room. Then scan the picture and post it on
Facebook!"
Do it! I challenge you!
