A - Z of Inspiration! - List of Themes

[matty]

following on from Whitewashes lack of inspiration thread, why dont we make our own A - Z of photographic themes for inspiration?

Big thanks to Tammbrey for doing the list out for me, if there are more then post on the end here and i will add them as we go

thanks!


A
Abstract
Amphibian
Angel
Architecture
Autumn

B
Bikes
Birds
Black and White
Blue
Books
Bridge
Bronze
Brown
Bump
Butterflies / Bees

C
Cats
Celebrations
Choice
Close-up
Clouds
Cold
Colours
Contrasts
Computers
Critters (Any animal, wild or tame)
Culture
Curves

D
Decorations
Demonic
Devilish
Digital
Documentary
Dogs
Dominating
Doors
Dots / Dashes / Diagonals
Duplicates

E
Easter
Eggs
Embrace
Enthusiasm / eager
Events

F
Feisty
Feline
Fetes & Festivals
Fetish
Fireworks / Fire
Fish
Flowers
Food
Framed
Frozen
Fruit

[matty]

G
Games
Geriatric (older folks)
Glamour
Gold
Graceful
Green

H
Hands: Glamourous, Working, Young, Old, Busy, and Idle.
Harvest
Hats
Hidden
History
Holiday
Horizon

I
Industrial
Indigenous (native to that area)
Insects
Inspiration
Iridescent

J
Job (work)
Journalistic

K
Kin (family)
Kite

L
Lazy
Landscapes
Learning
Light
Lightning

M
Macro
Marine life
Mass flowers
Money / Currency
Mood
Muse

N
Night
Night lights
Non-flowering (ferns, fungi, mosses / leaves)
Nonsense
Nut

O
Objects
Olympic
Opulent
Orange

P
Patterns
Peacocks / Pride
People
Perspective
Pink / Purple
Polished

[matty]

Q
Quad
Quarters
Queens
Ques

R
Roadscapes (roads or streets)
Rain / drops
Red
Reflection
Religious
Rocks
Rustic

S
Sand dunes
Seascapes
Seasons
Shadows
Signs
Sky
Smiles
Snow
Speed
Spring
Sports
Squirrel
Still life
Structures
Sunrise
Sunset
Summer
Superstitions
Sweets

T
Teddy Bear / toy
Textures
Transport
Trees
Tresses (hair)

U
Umbrella
Urban
Ungulates (hoofed animals, pigs, goats, deer horses)

V
Vacation
Vice (any habit – smoking, nail biting, coffee/tea drinking, talking on the phone)
View (from home / work) (point of view)
Visitors

W
Water
Waterfalls
Weather
Wet
White
Wildlife
Windows
Winter
Wood(s)

X
Xenon
Xenophobia *(a fear or contempt of foreigners or strangers)
Xerox machine
X-rays
Xylophones
The spot (X marks it, you know)

Y
Yacht
Yellow
Yo-yo

Z
Zebra (Crossing)
Zig Zags
Zipper
Zoo

[Chuckurbarla]

Here's a few

Anger
Doom and gloom
Elation
Femininity
Happiness
Hunger
Joy
Masculinity
Sorrow

[whiteflyer]

Do I print the list off and then try and get one of each :lol:

[matty]

just for a rainy day, if your a bit bored you can pick one!

[Brittany Alyse]

These are really great thanks :)

[scubataff]

excellent ideda i must say. going to try and get at least 1 of each letter over the coming months till i've gone from A-Z

[Rozzy]

yes, this is my task. list copied and pasted.!!

[antar]

Thanks matty really helps with the 'doh' what shall I shoot today, I had about a dozen or so ideas.

[Fionab]

Ruins!!!!

[Duckydoodle]

Found this thread after posting mine guess this is the reason no-one replied :lol:

[boroboyben]

Grunge (Grungy themed i.e: graffiti, grave stones, etc etc...)

[.justin.]

i got half a dozen ideas just skimming through. thanks a lot

[foodpoison]

When I get my 40d on friday, I'm going to start a 365 using this list.

[foodpoison]

Just for reference, my 365 has just gone through a month :thumbs:

[dltracy]

Thanks, I am often stuck as to what to photograph next, now im going to try to do as you suggested and get at least one for each suggestion - thanks!

[Ptchfork]

this thread rules.... just what I've been looking for