Red Bluff, Redding and Chico based wedding and landscape photographer.

Participation is simple, post a themed picture on the appropriate day and be sure to include the theme's title or tag (ie #fallfriday) in your post so it can be found in search. Please mention the curator for each theme when you participate. I just put the list together, so I'm not responsible for every theme, just the ones I'm curating. I assembled the list for the community's benefit, not my own. On the search page, there is a handy "Save this Search" button where you can have quick access to it on the sidebar whenever you need it.

This list is big and growing fast so treat it a lot like the menu at your favorite restaurant and all the items are on the a la carte menu. Pick and choose your favorite themes and have fun!

General Themes

These tags are not linked to any single day and easily combined with other tags and themes.

• #BathroomSelfie: Share creative and fun self portraits (selfies) taken in a bathroom. Curated by Lotus Carroll.

• Do you want to get serious constructive criticism on a photograph you've been working on? Simply use the tag #CritiquePls in your post and share the photo publicly. That way people who see the tag will be free to share their thoughts knowing they won't hurt your feelings. Please keep the comments civil and professional. For more information read Karin Nelson's post found here.

• #FineArtPls: Place this tag on any photo from any genre except nudes (G+'s rules) that have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty. Oranized and curated by Marina Chen.
• #AllThingsRed: Share photos full of the color red. Lucille Galleli and Stephen Thackeray. G+ Page: +AllThingsRed
• #YisforYellow : Share photos full of the color red. Lucille Galleli. G+ Page: +YisforYellow

Sunday

• Sacred Sunday: Share photos of churches, cathedrals, religious subjects or anything that is sacred to you.
  Curator is Charles Lupica (EMEA), Manfred Berndtgen (EMEA), Robyn Morrison (Asia Pacific), Margaret Tompkins (Americas) and Sherrie von Sternberg. Use #SacredSunday tag in your post.
• Iconic Family Photo:  Share a photo that defines your family. Not so much on photographic quality, but one that is important to your family. Please accompany a description telling us why it's iconic. Curated by Ed Dombrowski. Use #IconicFamilyPhoto  in your post.
• Selfless Sunday: Share a photo from another photographer giving them full credit and all the love. Curated by Jeffrey Sullivan. Use #SelflessSunday tag in your post.
• Desert Sand Day: Share a photo with a sandy desert as the subject.
  Curated by Tuan Le. Use #DesertSandDay tag in your post.
• Sky Sunday:  Share a photo where the sky or severe weather is the subject.
  Curated by Patrick Scherkenbach and Randy Scherkenbach. Use #SkySunday tag in your post. G+ Page +Sky Sunday.
• Steamy Sunday: Share an image where steam is the subject. Everything from steam engines to the steam that rises from your kettles. Curated by Paul Pavlinovich. Tag #SteamySunday
• Straight out of Camera (SOOC) Sunday: Share an image that has zero post processing. You are allowed to crop and resize the images only. Curated by John Kosmopoulos. Tag with #SOOCSunday.
• Square Sunday: Share a photo that is cropped 1:1 square. Curated by Matt Soave. Tag #SquareSunday
• Star Trails Sunday: Share a photo that includes start trails. Curated by Robert Walters. Planned Bi-weekly starting  10/23. Use tag #StarTrailSunday
• Street Art Sunday: Share a photo featuring graffiti, paste ups, stencils and other kind of interventions in public spaces.
  Curated by Luis Pedro and Peter Tsai. Tag #StreeArtSunday
• Birds of Prey Sunday: Share a photo featuring wild birds of prey.
  Curated by Jeffrey Van Daele and Diego Cattaneo. Tag #BirdsofPreySunday
• Spider Sunday: Share a photo featuring a spider.
  Curated by Chris Mallory, Kjetil Greger Pedersen and Kimberly Hosey. Tag #SpiderSunday
• Sign Sunday: Share a photo that has a sign in it
  Curated by Gene Bowker and Walt Sprinkle. Tag #SignSunday. G+ Page.
• Zen Sunday: Share a photo that emboides simple beauty. Simply beautiful, expressive and pure images which fills the one who sees them with inner peace and spiritual energy. Contemplative, mindful and serene photos. Creative use of negative space and an artistic touch can be part of shaping that zen feeling.
  Curated by Charlotte Therese Björnström, Simon Kitcher and Nathan Wirth. Tag #ZenSunday.
• Sweets Sunday: Share a photo of any type of sweets.
  Curated by Michael Earley. Tag #SweetsSunday.
• World Culture Sunday: Images should visually describe something about a culture. What they think, how they live and/or it's history. This could be statues, people, festivals, ceremonies, architecture and lifestyle. Please remember, A "travel snapshot" does not necessarily equal a "cultural" photograph.
  Curated by Gene Tewksbury. Tag #WorldCultureSunday G+ Page.
• Sunday Subtle Landscapes: Nature and Landscape images that are tranquil and soothing.
  Curated by Steve Sieren. Tag #SundaySubtleLandscapes.
• Shadows on Sunday: Share a photo of shadows of any kind.
  Curated by André Roßbach and Daniel Graupner. Tag #ShadowsOnSunday. G+ Page is +ShadowsOnSunday.
• Splash Sunday: Share a photo of a splash.
  Curated by Christy Martin. Tag #SplashSunday.
• Door Sunday: Share a photo of a door or gate from around the world
  Curated by André Roßbach and Dave Krugman. Tag #DoorSunday G+ Page.

Monday

• Mountain Monday: Share a photo with mountains.
  Curator Michael Russell. Use #MountainMonday tag in your post.
• Macro Monday: Share a macro photograph.
  Curators are Kerry Murphy, Jennifer Eden, and Kelli Seeger Kim. Use #MacroMonday tag in your post.
• Monochrome Monday: Share a photo presented in Black & White.
  Curator is Hans Berendsen, Charles Lupica, Jerry Johnson, Manuel Votta and Steve Barge. Use #MonochromeMonday. G+ Page +Monochrome Monday.
• Ministract Monday:  Ministract \ˈmi-nə-ˈstrakt\ - Of or pertaining to that which might be minimal, might be abstract or might even be both. Curator is Tom McLaughlan. Use #MinistractMonday tag in your post.
• Military Monday: Share a photo where the military is the subject.
  Curated by Joe Kaiser. Use #MilitaryMonday tag in your post.
• Action Monday: Share an action sports photo.
  Curated by Adrian Buturca. Use #ActionMonday tag in your post.
• Moody Monday: Share a photo that has a dark, moody and bleak feel.
  Curated by Philip Daly. Use #MoodyMonday tag in your post.
• Mirror Monday: Share a photo where a reflection is the subject.
  Curated by Gemma Costa and Elizabeth Edwards. Use #MirrorMonday tag in your post.
• Moonrise Monday: Share a photo of a true moonrise which usually occurs the evening before the full moon. It will usually rise just after sunset when there is still that magical light. It only happens 12 times a year. Check out the moon calendar. Curated by Stephen Krieg. This is planned to run every Monday following the full moon. Tag #MoonriseMonday
• Mystery Monday: Share a photo which sparks the question "What is it?".
  Curator Marie Hélène Visconti. Use #MysteryMonday tag.
• Mobile Monday: Share a photo taken with a mobile phone.
  Curator Sinead Sam McKeown. Use #MyMobileMonday tag.
• Midair Monday: Share a photo where the main subject is a person, pet, or object captured in midair.
  Curator Jeff Moreau. Use #MidairMonday tag.
• Mosaic Monday: Share photo mosaics (collages). Any subject: botanical, life-cycle, sequential, colors, numbers, etc. Not photos of real mosaics but photo mosaics that you create using any number of tiles (panes) and any configuration. Please check hashtag for examples.
  Curator Mim Eisenberg. Use #MosaicMonday tag. G+ Page
• Medium Format Monday: Share a photo shot on a medium format camera
  Curator Antoine Bonfort. Use #MediumFormatMonday tag.
• Metallic Monday: Share a photo of something metallic.
  Curator Thomas Raschbacher. Use #MetallicMonday tag. G+ Page is +#MetallicMonday
• Nature Monday: Share a landscape photo.
  Curator Rolf Hicker. Use #NatureMonday tag.
• Minimal Monday: Share a landscape image that emphasizes minimalism.
  Curator Olivier Du Tré. Use #MinimalMonday tag.
• Backyard Birding Monday: Share a photo of a bird shot from your backyard.
  Curator Ricky L Jones and Celeste Odono. Use #BackyardBirdingMonday tag.
• Monkey Monday: Share a photo of a monkey.
  Curator Alex Lapidus. Use #MonkeyMonday tag.
• Motorsports Monday: Share photos related to motorsports. This can be anything on land or water and number of wheels irrelevant as long as its fast!
  Curator Auki Henry and Ed Forman. Use #MotorsportsMonday tag. G+ Page +Motorsports Monday
• Leading Lines Monday: Upload or share a photograph with Leading Lines.
  Curators Pam Chalkley, CJ Sros and Jakob Nilsson. Use #LeadingLinesMonday tag. G+ Page: +Leading Lines Monday
• People at Work Monday: Share a photo depicting someone working.
  Curators Baki Karacay. Use #PeopleAtWorkMonday tag. G+ Page: +People At Work Monday

Tuesday

• My Town Tuesday: Share a photo taken locally. No wider than your county.
  Curators Melanie Kintz and Jame Furlong. Use #MyTownTuesday tag in your post. G+ Page: +My Town Tuesday
• Tree Tuesday: Share a photo where a tree is the subject.
  Curator is Christina Lawrie and Shannon S. Myers. Use #TreeTuesday tag in your post.
• Tone-map HDR Tuesday: Share a photo that is processed as an HDR.
  Curator are Drew Pion and Stephanie Suratos. Use #TonemapHDRTuesday tag in your post.
• Tuesday Decay: Share a photo centered around abandoned or forgotten architecture, engineering, infrastructure, etc.
  Curated by Ian Ference. Use #TuesDecay tag in your post.
• Today Tuesday: Share a photo that was taken TODAY.
  Curated by Brian White. Use #TodayTuesday tag in your post.
• Portrait Tuesday: Share any form of portraiture using natural and stobist light sources.
  Curated by Laura Balc. Use #PortraitTuesday tag in your post.
• Toy Tuesday: Share a photo with a toy as the subject.
  Curated by Lars Pixel Clausen. Use #ToyTuesday tag in your post.
• Archi-Texture Tuesday Share a photo where architecture is the subject, with an emphasis on finding the right balance in the structure's texture. Curated by Ranjan Saraswati. Use #ArchiTextureTuesday tag in your post.
• Transport Tuesday: Share a photo that features all forms of transportation except 4-wheeled ones.
  Curated by Gene Bowker, Joe Paul, Mike Masin, Steve Boyko and Michael Earley. Tag #TransportTuesday. G+ Page
• Equine Tuesday: Share a photo featuring a horse.
  Curated by Jillian Chilson. Tag #EquineTuesday
• Sea Tuesday: Share a photo of the sea or anything related to it
  Curated by Julia Anna Gospodarou. Tag #SeaTuesday G+ Page
• Two Times Tuesday: Share a 2 photos that depict the before and after processing.
  Curated by Robert McMillan. Tag #TwoTimesTuesday.
• Candid Mood Tuesday: Process a candid shot in any way to enhance the mood!
  Curated by Alexius Jørgensen. Tag #CandidMoodTuesday. G+ Page
• Vintage Camera Tuesday: Share a photo taken of a vintage camera.
  Curated by Meg Rousher, Gerhard Müller, Manfred Berndtgen. Tag #VintageCameraTuesday and G+ Page +Vintage Camera Tuesday.

Wednesday

• Waterfall Wednesday: Share a waterfall shot, big or small.
  Curator is Eric Leslie (me). Use #WaterfallWednesday tag in your post
• Wildlife Wednesday: Share a photo with wild animals in their natural setting.
  Curator is Mike Spinak. Use #WildlifeWednesday tag in your post
• We Love Music Wednesday: Share a photo where music/concerts are the subject. Curated by Folletto Folletto and Harmony Goodson. Use #WeLoveMusicWednesday tag in your posts.
• Whatever Wednesday: Share images that make you laugh, surprise you or made you say “What in the world?". Curated by Cicely Robin Laing. Use #WhateverWednesday tag in your post.
• Women Wednesday: Share a photo that expresses the power and beauty of women.
  Curated by Niki Aguirre, Athena Carey, Lee Daniels and Christina Lawrie. Use #WomenWednesday tag in your post.
• One Prime Wednesday: Go out shooting restricting yourself to shooting with a single prime lens.
  Curated by Alfie Goodrich. Use #OnePrimeWednesday tag in your post.
• Wide Wednesday Panoramas:  Panoramas wide and tall, images cropped to a 2:1 aspect ratio or multiple frames stitched together. Curated by Charles Lupica, Jason Dell, Ken McMahon, Lucille Galleli and Andrew Marston. Tag #WideWednesdayPanorama and G+ Page +WideWednesdayPanorama. Note: Charles and Jason are on sabbatical
• Light Writing Wednesday:  Share images with lightwriting and lightpainting.
  Curated by Rznag Rmrod and Michael Sutton. Tag #LightwritingWednesday
• Window Wednesday: Share a photograph taken through a window either from work, or home. Any window, window frame or interesting windows such as stain glass. Curated by Simon Kitcher, Jules Hunter, Jason Kowing, Martin OBER and Cheryl Cooper. Tag the image using by mentioning the Theme page #Window Wednesday in your post.
• Love Wednesday: Share a photo that expresses love. Curated by Pierluigi Failla. Tag #LoveWednesday. G+ Page
• Where Am I Wednesday: Share a photo of any place and have people try to guess where it is. Curated by Todd Williams. Tag #WhereWednesday G+ Page
• Wide Angle Wednesday: Share a photo taken at a wide-angle focal length, less than 40 mm. Curated by Asif Patel. Hash tag #WideAngleWednesday and G+ Page +Wide Angle Wednesday
• Windy Wednesday: Share a photo that depicts the wind blowing. Curated by Trevor Farrell and Tricia McDonald Ward. Hash tag #WindyWednesday and G+ Page +Windy Wednesday

Thursday

• Thirsty Thursday: Share all things water: seascapes, lakes and rivers are the subject.
  Curator is Giuseppe Basile and Mark Esguerra. Use #ThirstyThursdayPics tag in your post.
• Silhouettes On Thursday: Share a photo where a silhouette is the subject.
  Curator is Siddharth Pandit. Use #SilhouettesOnThursday tag in your post.
• History Thursday: Share a photo of something historic, preferably man-made. Post a brief explanation or a link to explain the history when possible! A brief FAQ here.
  Curator is Matt Shalvatis. Use #HistoryThursday tag in your post.
• Long Exposure Thursday: Share a photo  of any subject taken with a long exposure.
  Curators are Le Quoc and Francesco Gola. Use #LongExposureThursday tag in your post.
• Travel Thursday: Share a photo where travelling is the subject.
  Curating by Laura Mitchum. Use #TravelThursday tag in your posts.
• Texture Blend Thursday: Share photos that have been processed and blended together using 1 or more textures. Curated by +Christine Hauber and Matt Suess. Use #TextureBlendThursday tag in your post. G+ Page.
• Theoretical Thursday: Share a photo that conceptualizes an idea or is in the form of abstract art.
  Curated by Jason Dell. Use #TheoreticalThursday tag in your post.
• Lighthouse Thursday: Share a photo of a lighthouse.
  Curated by Heiko Köster. Planned bi-weekly, starting  10/20/2012. Tag #LighthouseThursday
• Throw Away Thursday: Share a photo that's so accidentally bad, it's funny.
  Curated by Lynn Langmade, Doug DeTraz and Mary Sass Clark. Tag #ThrowAwayThursday OR #TAT
• Caption This Thursday: Share a photo that lends itself well to captioning. Commentors will suggest a caption and anyone can +1 their favorite caption. Then 24-48 hours later, the original poster will re-share the image with the best (most +1s) caption.
  Curated by Jenness 'Dory' Asby. Tag #CaptionThisThursday.
• In Motion Thursday: Share a photo showing motion and movement like panning, blurs, zooming effects and Intentional Camera Movement (ICM)
  Curated by Scott Thomas. Tag #InMotionThursday.
• Damn Near Dead Thursday: A place to share stories of dangoures, daring and flat out stupid adventures in Photography!
  Curated by Dan Ballard. Tag #DamnNearDiedThursday G+ Page.
• Low Key Thursday: Share a photo taken with the low key style.
  Curated by Bartek Siębab. Tag #LowKeyThursday.

Friday

• Four Seasons Friday: Share a photo showing off the current season we're in.
  Curators are Karin Nelson and Stephonie Ogden. Use #FourSeasonsFriday tag in your post.
• Floral Friday: Share a photo where flowers are the subject.
  Curator is Tamara Pruessner. Use #FloralFriday tag in your post.
• Food Friday: "Watch what you eat" and share a photo where food is the subject.
  Curatored by Bobbi Lance, Lucretia Yeh, Nicholas Ong and Natty Netsuwan. Use #FoodFriday tag in your post.
• Four-wheeled Friday: Share:  All things vehicle related, cars, bikes, motorcycles and unicycles.
  Curator is Akhil Kalsh. Use #FourWheeledFriday in post.
• Film Friday: Share a photo shot on film. Please share information about what camera, film and developing were used.
  Curated by Richard Call. Use #FilmFriday tag in your post.
• Fungus Friday: Share a photo of any variety of fungi.
  Curated by Chris Sullivan. Planned every LAST Friday of the month. Use #FungusFriday tag in your post.
• Frightening Friday: Share an image that captures an element of fear, danger or drama.
  Curated by Alexis Coram. Planned Bi-weekly. Use #FrighteningFriday tag in your posts.
• Fire Friday:  Anything fire goes-from a wildfire, to a tip of a match shot macro, to even smoke from a fire, fire houses, fire hydrants and fire hoses. Fire People! Curated by Grayson Hartman. Tag #FireFriday
• Fido Friday: Share a photo featuring man's best friend, the dog.
  Curated by Wes Lum, Mel Peifer and Lisa Lisa. Tag #FidoFriday 
• Frog Friday: Share a photo with of a frog.
  Curated by Christina Rollo and Candace Hansen. Tag #FrogFriday
• Fisheye Friday: Share a photo taken with a fisheye lens.
  Curated by Ivan Yudhi and Randy Scherkenbach. Tag #FisheyeFriday. G+ Page +FisheyeFriday
• Infrared Friday: Share a photo taken with with an IR filter, a converted camera or produced in post production.
  Curated by Paula Cobleigh and Ingo Schobert. Tag #InfraredFriday
• Fashion Fridays: Share a photo that emphasizes the look and feel of fashion
  Curated by Faith Gauthier. Tag #FashionFridays
• Feelings Friday: Share a photo that expresses strong human emotion. Everything from joy and sadness to anger and jealousy.
  Curated by LeLinda Bourgeois. Tag #FeelingsFriday
• Forest Friday: Share a photo of a forest
  Curated by Alan owens. Tag #ForestFriday
• Feet Friday: Share a photo featuring feet.
  Curated by Carrie McGann. Tag #FeetFriday G+ Page
• We Are Parents: Share a photo that embodies what it means to be a parent. The great joys and the great frustrations.
  Curated by Juan Gonzalez. Tag #WeAreParents
• Foggy Friday: Share a photo taken in the fog.
  Curated by Thomas Russ Arnestad. Tag #FoggyFriday
• Feel Good Friday: Share a photo that makes you feel warm and fuzzy.
  Curated by Rebecca Borg. Tag #FeelGoodFriday. G+ Page
• Friday Getaway: Images involving vacation travel, outdoor sports, recreation, and lifestyle. Images with roads, bridges, trains, boats, hiking, camping, fishing, chairs on a beach, etc.
  Curated by Gary Crabbe. Tag #FridayGetaway.
• Fly By Friday: Share a photo of a bird in flight.
  Curated by Meg Rousher. Tag #FlyByFriday.
• Filter Friday: Share a photo that used a physical glass filter or one applied in post production with software. Share also what filter you used in the description.
  Curated by Laurie Rubin. Tag #FilterFriday.
• Plastic Lens Friday: The only requirement is a physical plastic lens must be used to take the shot - software simulations of plastic lens photos don't count.
  Curated by Mark Garbowski. Tag #PlasticLensFriday and G+ Page +PlasticLens Friday.
• Fly Fishing Friday: Share a photo that features fly fishing.
  Curated by Kurt Budliger. Tag #FlyFishingFriday.
• iPhoneography Friday: Photos taken with an iPhone.
  Curated by Christianna Pierce and Jose Vazquez. Tag #iPhoneographyFriday.
• Astro Friday: Photos astronomy related.
  Curated by Dawn Peterson and Nimesh Patel. Tag #AstroFriday. G+ Page +AstroFriday

Saturday

• Sepia Saturday: Share a photo processing in sepia.
  Curator is Renee Stewart Jackson. Use #SepiaSaturday tag in your post.
• Sunset Saturday: Share a shot where the sunset/rise is the subject.
  Curator is TJ Kelly. Use #SunsetSaturday tag in your post.
• SpeedySaturday: Share a photo taken with a fast shutter speed to freeze fast motion.
  Curator is Patricia Paton. Use #SpeedySaturday tag in your post.
• Street Saturday: Share a photo taken on the street.
  Curated by Siddharth Pandit. Use #StreetSaturday tag in your post.
• Saturday Night Light: Share a photo taken at night. Any subject with artificial light,  indoors or outdoors. No Sunlight.
  Curated by Dirk Heindoerfer. Use #SaturdayNightLighttag in your post.
• Paint it Saturday: Share a photo that has been processed to look like a painting use any variety of techniques.
  Curated by Alexius Jørgensen. Use #PaintItSaturday tag in your post.
• Caturday: Share a photo of a cat.
  Curated by Christophe Friedli and Lee Daniels. Tag #Caturday
• Songbird Saturday: Share a photo of wild songbirds.
  Curated by John Briggs. Tag #SongbirdSaturday.
• Rolling Shutter Saturday: Share a photo using the rolling shutter technique. Example. Curated by Benno Dielmann. Starts 10/15, and then runs by announcement once a month. Tag #RollingShutterSaturday.
• Rural Saturday: Share a photo  that is all things rural. Everything from farm and fields, to farm machinery, to views of rural living. Curated by Mario Cerroni. Use tag #RuralSaturday. G+ Page
• Still Life Saturday: Share a still life themed photo.
  Curated by Ken Hoyle and Sherri Meyer. Tag #StillLifeSaturday
• Unsharp Saturday: Share a photo that is intentionally out of focus or uses soft focus.
  Curated by Nathan Beaulne. Tag #UnsharpeSaturday
• Sword Saturday: Share a sword or battle type image.
  Curated by Faith Gauthier. Tag #SwordSaturday
• Sleepy Saturday: Share an image of people and animals sleeping or anything concerning sleep.
  Curated by Andrea Martinez and Gemma Costa. Tag #SleepySaturday. G+ Page
• Stone Saturday: Share all photographs about stone, geological structure (fold, fault, cliff, gorges) or where use of stone is highlighted.
  Curated by Antoine Berger. Tag #StoneSaturday.
• Saturday Style: Share a photo that represents your idea of style.
  Curated by Lynn Langmade and Lane Langmade. Tag #SAS.
• Seedurday: It's all about seeds and seed-related imagery.
  Curated by Kathryn Brown. Tag #Seedurday. G+ Page: +Seedurday