Week 3 Photo Challenge: Create a photograph where light itself is the subject. Not what it illuminates—but what it says. Use light to imply emotion, tension, calm, revelation, absence, or hope. The scene may be ordinary; the meaning must come from how light behaves within it. Direction, contrast, softness/hardness all contribute to the emotional implications of your light choices Intent: This challenge asks you to move beyond light as a technical tool and treat it as narrative language. Ask: If the subject disappeared, would the light still carry meaning?

Week 4 Photo Challenge: A bus stop at dusk. Photograph a bus stop at dusk. Use color harmony or tension and tonal compression or expansion to convey emotional temperature in the scene, making color expressive, not decorative. Theme: Emotional temperature. Critique emphasis: - Color harmony vs tension - Tonal compression or expansion Optional breakdown: - Before/after tonal decisions Goal: Color becomes expressive, not decorative.

Week 2 Photo Challenge: The Solitary Chair. Photograph a single chair as an act of intentional seeing rather than description or symbolism. Avoid narrative props or human presence—it’s not about who sat there or why. It’s about the chair as a subject: its placement, light, form, and relationship to the surrounding space. Be deliberate in your emphasis. Use light, isolation, framing, or negative space to make the chair unmistakably the subject. Remove anything that competes for attention. Seek restraint. Let the chair exist without explanation. Your image should communicate clarity of focus and quiet intention—nothing more than what is necessary, nothing less than what is seen.

Photo Challenge: The Quiet Storefront. Photograph a single store or shop front as an act of observation rather than documentation or technical acumen. Avoid commerce or branding—it’s about presence, geometry, light, and what remains when people are absent. Seek restraint. Let the storefront speak quietly. Your image should exude quiet solitude. The storefront is a suggestion if you seek guidance on what to shoot. Any subject that speaks to you is acceptable.