Photography Prompt: Renewal
Week of 2025-05-17- to 2025-05-23
The photography prompt this week is: Renewal
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Be Inspired and Learn Something New
Last week's prompt post for "broken" ended with the thought that after the breakdown is the opportunity to build back new.
This week we are going to work with the concept of “Renewal”.
Does that seem complicated? Too theoretical?
It can be quite simple.
Nature is full of examples of renewal, especially around this Spring time of year here in the northern hemisphere.
Year round, Each day begins fresh with a sunrise which is a kind of renewal of the cycle. Or maybe something closer to home like the yard after a fresh mow is your kind of renewal.
For those into street, lifestyle, or travel photography, it is a fun challenge to consider how you can convey the concept of renewal in your style of image.
As I was writing this, the image of a fresh set of pins at the bowling alley came to my mind. They get knocked down, and then set up again.
So what’s up with all these conceptual photo prompts anyway?
It is easy enough to find a photo of a subject or physical thing, but having the ability to express an emotion or concept in an image is an entry to exploring what that concept means for you personally. It is also a great way to develop a sense of narrative or storytelling in your photos beyond the subject and scene.
Photography can be seen as a mirror to our own inner way of seeing the world. By creating photos like this, we get to know ourselves a little better with every frame.
What renewal photos will you search out this week? Make sure to share an image or two with us on Aminus3 or Substack Notes.
Last Week’s Prompt Photos for “Broken”
The challenge last week was to think about different ways of expressing “Broken” in photos. The images shared did not disappoint, not only portraying literal visualizations of the theme, but conceptual and multi-layered interpretations as well.
With the way the world has been going the last decade, it is important to consider how quickly things can break down from what seems like the status quo into chaos.
My own broken foot was a good personal example, and in solidarity,
shared one of hers from several years ago.
While painful and disruptive, these kind of breakdowns are often more temporary than others.
This photo from
along with his thoughts remind us that for all of the wealth and technology in the world today, there are still so many broken systems that allow people to fall through the cracks. As he wrote :… I started thinking about the time in which we live and the countless people, whom society forgets. Government forgets. The ones we walk by and often no longer see. They are broken. And we, we too are broken, because they seem not to matter.
There were a few instances of the destruction of nature (and entropy?) on solid structures like houses and garages as
shares with us the destruction of one of his barns due to a bad storm.
Expanding outside space and time we find a few ominous broken things like discarded mirrors along with their superstitious associations with bad luck, and murderous androids sent from the future to alter the timeline. Think about that next time you are ChatGPTing your way through a deadline or assignment.
Not all breakdown were so serious. There can often be beauty in breakdown.
posted this “Broken” facade of the Hundertwasser house in Vienna. As he wrote :A stoic Austrian street front broken to unveil a rainbow of vivid color blocks, a mishmash of windows and random plant growth. Broken, yet it is the broken nature that unfurls its lovely coat of many colors. It reminds me a bit of Japanese Kintsugi, where broken pottery is mended with gold to create a perfect imperfection.
A wilting flower and a spider’s broken web remind us of the idea of impermanence. The spider builds her intricate creation every day, only to be torn and blown away.
Here are few more colorful and creative images for the broken prompt.
See all the photos shared on Aminus3 for last week’s Broken prompt.
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Thank you for including my image in your 'broken' post. I get the impression that your prompts are very successful and that lots are hopping on with their ideas. It is good fun for a week to see what Substackers come up with from one prompt to the next! Thank you for doing this.
These are FISH BEDS.
Our cove is full of them. The bass come in and make these bed to lay their eggs.
And when they hatch, this is where the heron and turtles and larger fish come to eat all the small fry they can, and where the small fry that dont get eaten hide out and try to blend in until they get big enough to head out the open lake.