What do you see?

Be on the lookout for wonderment.

Take one photo per week, using an iPhone. Or something.

Don’t go to any effort.

Just one pic. One wonder-moment a week.

Here’s my take so far from January to March.

Would you like to join me for the next 12 weeks? Simple.  Here.

Or helping little hands to create funny legs,

If you’re cloud gazing on an Autumn day

Or playing a game with a ball and a hoop

This is Wonderment to me:

Transformation

Imagination in Motion

Hints of Puppetry

This post is my submission for week 10 of Wonderment. As Eventful Poet shared, this challenge is doing two things. In her words:

One, it’s shifting my perspective.  Guess what happens when you look for something wonder-ful each week?  Yep, you start noticing more and more sources of wonder.

Two, it creates a visual record of the year, 52 weeks of captured moments I’ll be able to look back on at the end of it.

What does Wonderment mean to you? Do you like to capture those moments?

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For week 7 of the Wonderment project.

Actually, amongst others, I quite liked @hwakelham’s sleeping teddy snapshot this week. A moment of wonder quickly captured, creates a strong abstract impression.

Sleeping Teddies by @hwakelam

I was on the lookout for wonderment today. Before the day even began, I determined that I would look out for inspiration as I went about my day. You see – last week when I was trying to select a picture for the Wonderment Challenge -  it seemed too difficult. Others involved in this creative project shared similar feelings. Restricted by time. Limited by the iPhone camera. Just. Not. Happening.

So I decided to take a different tact today. I realised the day had flown by and I had nearly forgotten to take a photo for week 6. So I grabbed my phone and – no, I didn’t go looking for a pretty thing to photograph - I set about the things I had to do, with a motivation to look at my tasks with a creative and imaginative eye.

The result? I was peeling and cutting some carrot sticks for the kids. I was about to clean the chopping board when my eye happened upon the inviting orange swirls curled up in one corner. Perfect! I grabbed a Japanese dish and quickly arranged them haphazardly. Voila! I must admit, it was fun turning something domestic into something a little more dramatic Here is a black and white abstract version of the discarded carrot peel I created using the Retro Camera app.

Will you join me in the lookout for something to capture your imagination next week?

1. Join the Wonderment Flickr Group (#wonderment52)

2. Use your iPhone or similar basic camera. Apps are fine too!

3. Submit a photo for week 7 by next Friday.

I must say, I’m enjoying this project because it only takes a few minutes each week AND it is challenging my awareness of creativity to be found amongst the simplest things. When you play, discover and learn – you sharpen your skills to make a difference.

What do you think?

x 365

24 to live
24 to give
24 to sleep
24 to keep
24 to smile
24 in style
24 to laugh
24 so fast
24 to love
24 to love
24 to love
24 to love

Submitted for week 3 of the Wonderment Challenge #wonderment52 . Some wonderful submissions on the theme of wonderment so far.

Communing with Ducklife by @hwakelam

Bike Wall by @dwinter

Signs of life
Signs of hunger
Signs of a path, beaten past my door,
Signs of living creatures
For whom this is home
Signs of a world beyond my ken
Living, breathing, scratching, searching
Scouring the cold hard ground
Of the yard outside my door

Signs by @eventfulpoet

This year my second boy starts school (prep) and we bought a plain art smock along with his uniform today. A pretty momentous occasion!

I asked if he would like to decorate it. A big YES. We quickly grabbed some fabric paint out of the cupboard. What started out as neat lines including a little orange house turned into bright silver and red swirls. Once I used my finger to wipe off a big dollop of paint from his smock, he realised that fingers were a much better way to play with the paint than squeezing it from the fine tipped tube

He caught my imagination with his random, fun approach and I *only just* remembered to grab my phone to grab a few snaps of those fun, colourful moments. It was difficult to select just one but this is the house smudging moment, so I’m keeping it for posterity. Yes, it’s another ShakeItPhoto app picture, even though I planned to post a regular photo this week.

There have been some really lovely contributions to week 1 of the challenge. Thanks Jo for sharing the wonderment of your daughter floating in an imaginary world created by three generations.

It’s not too late to join in this weekly challenge, looking for wonderment. Just leave your Flickr handle in the comments.  The challenge will conclude on December 31st 2010.

What captured your imagination this week?

Tucked away
Rows of rusted parts
Stacked away
Fragments of yesteryear

Hanging high
Above the crowded curios
Several frames perched in tandem
Skeletons of stories past

Landscapes, abstracts
Memory’s signature
Once held
Within your wooden splints

But for now
You hang askew
Now – in this photo
The framed ones

Jasmin Tragas @wonderwebby for the Wonderment Creative Challenge
Photo taken at Montsalvat

This is my contribution to a new weekly creative challenge callled Wonderment. Harriet Wakelam and I were chatting on Twitter about how we were seeking a weekly creative challenge this year.  Something fun and inspiring, but not time consuming. Something easy enough to do on an iPhone.

And so, Wonderment was born. If you are interested in participating, just leave a comment with your Flickr ID and I’ll invite you. There is just one theme for the year: Wonderment “From illusion, to making a wish. Finding wonder and imagination in the everyday.” It’s up to you to submit a photo each week by Friday-ish (the last day of 2010 is on a Friday.)  At the end of the year you’ll have 52 photos to remind you of the things that made you wonder. You don’t need to write a poem. This one just sprung out at me from the image.

Happy imagining!

by neon.mamacita

by jek in the box

by leedav

from Jesshibb

There are some fun pics in the group Flickr pool. You should take a look-see.