Wow, what a crazy month! More people contributed this month (yay!). I was especially stoked with the Movember photos:

Movember was all about raising awareness about Prostate Cancer by growing facial hair. We didn’t grow any facial hair, nor raise any funds, but I love that we all supported the people who did anyway :)

I have to say, I cheated. I did all of mine in one photo:

I had a Fake Facial in the shape of a Ginger Mo, I Jumped for Joy, and I did so near a Feathered Friend. :)

Hopefully more of you will get involved in December, it’s alot of fun and so easy to do. The idea is simple. You have till the end of the month to upload three photos (just three) to the Steve’s Orienteering Challenge flickr group. That’s it. Easy, and a fun way to encourage people to get out and do something a bit random. You don’t even have to upload all three challenges to participate. Just one or two is fine!

December Challenges:

1. Seasonal Silliness
December is generally the month of Seasonal Awesome. Christmas, or Hanukkah or just Holiday Grandness, whatever it is you celebrate, snap a shot of you enjoying the season. Sit on Santa’s lap, wrap yourself in tinsel or cover yourself in presents. Rock the Seasonal Joy!

2. You, a Refrigerator and a Self-Portrait.
In December, my refrigerator is generally filled with food. I’m pretty keen to see whats in yours. :P

3. Literary Skins
Take a pen, and a quote, and some skin and combine the three. Skins and bodies are made to be written on. They are pretty like that.

Anyway, that’s it for this month! Hope your December is filled with much joy and that perhaps you’ll decide to join this month’s Steve’s Orienteering Challenge! :)

So, I posted last month about Octobers Challenge and I have to say I have so much <3 for Lucas right now for saving me from being the only one participating in this challenge last month!

And for serious, aren’t his photos awesome?

That’s Lucas being awesome, and rocking the challenges. He got up close and personal with something furry (SAVING that cute kitten (Baby Tuna) that was too weak to stand when he found it), being all educational and awesome (by signing the peace one day flag in Miri Malaysia! For serious, this is how he rolls), and the last being super helpful as an easel. An EASEL.

And right now Lucas is going ‘WTF, why I on Elly’s blog?!’ It’s because your awesome, Lucas. :P

And you make me kinda hopeful. Perhaps this month someone else will join us. Maybe there will be three or four of us. Are you keen to join?

The idea is simple. You have till the end of the month to upload three photos (just three) to the Steve’s Orienteering Challenge flickr group. That’s it. Easy, and a fun way to encourage people to get out and do something a bit random.

The Challenges this month:

1. Fake Facials
For those of you that don’t know, this month is Movember – the month where boys grow moustaches and the girls get pash rash for the sake of raising awareness and funds for Prostate Cancer.

So, take a photo of yourself with a fake mo! (This could be as simple as drawing a mo on your finger, or printing out a beard. Or you could go to the extreme and glue hair to your face. I’m just sayin’.)

2. Jump For Joy
Be airborne. Or rather, not on the ground, not on a chair, and not swinging from anything. Just jump for joy. In the air! :)

3. Feathered Flock
Find some feathered friends, and just go hang. You might want to bribe them with bread, but that’s totally up to you! Bonus points for the most birds in one photo!

Easy as, right? Everyone knows where to find ducks. Or chickens. Or other lovely feathered somethings :)

Anyway, that’s it for this month! Hope your November is wonderful, and that perhaps you’ll decide to join this month’s Orienteering Challenge! :)

So, for a while there, Steve would post to a facebook group and the group members would post back photos of themselves doing whatever. In short, it was a challenge that meant that we were outside doing things, instead of hanging out inside, on facebook. It was pretty fun, and I was a keen enough participant. Until alas, third month in, Steve got busy and didn’t post. Nor the next month. Nor the month after.

So five months later I decided I’d just, sort of, acquire Steve’s Orientation Challenge. I mentioned something about to Steve a while back and he didn’t seem to mind. So! The way it works is on the 1st (or around there abouts) I’ll post three things you need to take photos of yourself doing (they’ll be easy enough things, I promise!) and you’ll have three weeks to post the photos and link back to the challenge post!

What you do

Take photos of yourself doing the three assignments, post them to the flickr group and/or on your blog, or a with a link back to here, and leave a comment!

Easy enough, right? The Rules are simple:

1. Don’t use old photos. Steve’s orienteering challenge is all about going outside and doing interesting things, not staying in your parents basement copying and pasting png files from your C:/PICTURES folder (because you’re too hardcore to use “My Documents”)

2. Take your three photos and upload them to the flickr group, post them to your blog, leaving a link to said post in the comments.

3. Be creative. (This is more of a guideline than a rule)

The Assignments for October:

1. Furry Love

Get a photo of yourself getting all up close and personal with a fuzzy mammal.

2. Spreading the Love

Do something nice for someone else, spread the love this October!

3. Educational Imitation

Visit a place of educational amusement (ie your local library, zoo or museum) and imitate an item, animal, person, art or exhibit.

Brilliant! Hope you all have a great October, and have a blast with the October Challenge!