Week two! This time it’s a photo challenge, and you don’t even have to decide where to go: a coin does that for you. As always, the full explanation of the weekly challenge is in One Hour, Once a Week. Take the prompt below, make it your own and give it a go. If you like, link your version back to this post, use the #weeklycreativechallenge tag or drop a comment. I’ll definitely have a look.

Cheers – Hanni

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✦ The brief

A small, very serious wildlife documentary channel (audience: 4, one of them a cat) has hired you as its Expedition Photographer. Their narrator, Sir Reginald Pocket-Lint, insists that the most exotic territory on Earth is whatever is within 20 minutes of your front door, provided nobody chooses where to go.

So you won’t. A coin will.

His telegram, verbatim:

“Bring back proof of the wild. Mushrooms count. Puddles count. Do not photograph anything you meant to photograph.”

✦ The restrictions

• The coin steers. At every junction, gate, path fork or corner: heads = left, tails = right. No arguing with the coin (if you walk a dog in the meantime, he may veto once).
• You only shoot when the timer rings. Set a repeating timer for every 6 minutes. When it goes off, you have 30 seconds to photograph whatever is in front of you. Make it interesting from right there.
• Dog’s-eye view only. Every photo is taken from knee height or lower.
• One suspect face. At some point, find a face that isn’t a face (a knot in a fence, a drain cover, a sulking leaf) and photograph it. This one you may shoot whenever you spot it.

✦ The hour

• 0–5 min — Find a coin. Set the 6-minute repeating timer. Shoes on. Tell the dog it’s an expedition.
• 5–45 min — Walk. Flip at every junction. Shoot on every ring (that’s about 6 rings), plus the suspect face whenever it shows up.
• 45–55 min — Back home with tea. Pick your best 4 frames. Crop if you like; no filters beyond basic light and contrast.
• 55–60 min — Give each photo a species name and one line of Sir Reginald’s narration (e.g. “The Common Wheelie Bin, alone again at dusk.”).

✦ Optional bonus

Note down where the coin actually took you and draw the route as a tiny, wobbly expedition map with one invented landmark name.

✦ Done when

You have 4 photos with species names and narration. Blurry counts: Sir Reginald calls it “motion of the wild.”

✦ My result

My version follows later this week.