How it works

Sign up! Clear your diary for July 25, and wait for the day

Watch for our email in early July giving you more details and an upload link for your entries. Keep it safe! But email us if you lose it

Check your text messages at 10:00am BST for the first four topics

Have a cup of tea and plan your first photo

Take your first photo! Hooray, you’re a photomarathoner!

Take a photo for the second topic. Try an alternative idea. Keep going…

Repeat for the third and fourth topic until you have four images that you’re happy with, taken in order

Check your text messages again at 2:00pm BST

Plan and take the next four images

Probably, scrap image 6 because you’ve had a better idea. Take a new image 6 then retake images 7 and 8 so you keep in sequence.

Check your text messages again at 6:00pm BST

Probably, scrap image 8 because you’ve had a better idea. Take a new image 8

Plan and take the next four images

Phew, you have 12 images. If you want to, edit them a bit, a little crop here, a slight exposure correction there, convert to monochrome if you like.

Make sure you’ve finished taking and editing by 10:00am BST July 26th

When you’re ready, upload them to the unique link we sent you, and check they’re showing in the right order. If not, drop an email to us and tell us what’s wrong. Try and get this done by 6:00pm July 26th, but contact us if there’s a problem.