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Discover cool December photo challenge ideas from magical snowy landscapes and Christmas decorations to beautiful everyday winter scenes.
Finally, my favorite month has arrived along with the winter! This month smells like cinnamon, nutmeg, powdered sugar, honey, and fresh butter everywhere. The nights are getting longer, and the days become shorten. Christmas and the magical night of New Year’s Eve are near spreading love messages and sharing gifts. December definitely offers many photoshoot ideas from snowy magical scenes in nature to Christmas ornaments and family gatherings. So, check out a photo Challenge idea for every December day with a special quote inspired by the theme.
December photo challenge ideas
1. Hello December photo
“How did it get so late so soon? It’s the night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness, how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon?” Dr. Seuss
2. Hot Chocolate
“When I was tiny we would buy a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations.” Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)
3. Snowy mountainside
“I want to believe the stories, that there really is someone who would search the whole mountainside just to find that one lost the thing that he loves, and bring it home.” Sara Zarr (Once was lost)
4. Warm bookcase
“A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him.” Walter Mosley (The Long Fall)
5. Red cardinal
“But once, a cardinal alighted on the kitchen windowsill and he found himself squinting long after it had flown away again, trying hard to hold on to its beauty.” Jacqueline Woodson (Red at the Bone)
6. Sweater weather
“It was a question I had worn on my lips for days – like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn’t resist pulling – despite knowing it could all unravel around me.” Lang Leav (Love & Misadventure)
7. Mountain top in the fog
“I like winter and I like the dark and I like cats and I like the rain and I like walking up mountains and sitting at the top in the fog. That’s all I need to know about my life right now. It’s pretty simple” Annabel Pitcher (Ketchup Clouds)
8. Baking cookies
“The cookie-verse is infinite.” Dorie Greenspan (Dorie’s Cookies)
9. Frozen leaves
“Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.”
Bob Dylan (Mr. Tambourine man)
10. Coat weather outfit
“The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead, we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather” Frederick Buechner (Telling Secrets)
11. Snowy hill
“The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne’s heart and on her lips.” L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
12. Advent calendar
“A heavy sunlight freighted the foliage of the trees. Each leaf was a shutter about to swing back and reveal a miniature sun, one window in the immense advent calendar of nature.” J.G. Ballard (The unlimited Dream Company)
13. Holiday walk
“There is still something that recalls to me the enchantment of children—the anticipation of Christmas, the delight of a holiday walk—in the way the shop fronts shine into the fog.” Henry James (English Hours)
14. Winter Coffee
“We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee, the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it’s awesome.” John Green (Will Grayson)
15. Pine & fir trees
“After a few moments, he would tell you, by listening, just what species of pine or spruce or fir stood above him (whether he stood beneath a Douglas fir or a grand fir, a Sitka spruce or a western red cedar). His ears were attuned, he said, to the different dialects of the trees.” David Abram (Becoming Animal: An earthly cosmology)
16. Fireplace
“Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house in a country town. A great black stove is its main feature, but there is also a big round table and a fireplace with two rocking chairs placed in front of it. Just today the fireplace commenced its seasonal roar.” Truman Capote (A Christmas Memory)
17. Snowy branches
“After a while, I got out into the open air, and his face was the moon hanging in the snowy branches.” Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept)
18. Candles
“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.” Thomas De Quincey (Confessions of an English Opium Eater)
19. Snowflake
“You know,” she’d said, “they say people are like snowflakes, each one unique, but I think they’re more like skies. Some are cloudy, some are stormy, some are clear, but no two are ever quite the same.” V.E. Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)
20. Christmas wreath
“The smell of rosin was strong. It reminded her of Christmas wreaths and red glass ornaments. It was a completely different world, a completely different season than just a few steps away at the lake.” Sarah Addison Allen (The Girl Who Chased the Moon)
21. Gingerbread House
“Imagine they live in places like enchanted forests, gingerbread houses, underwater kingdoms, or castles in the sky. Personally, I know such a place exists because it’s where I’m from.” Chris Colfer (An Author’s Odyssey)
22. Gift wrapping
“Picture each worry like a gift. Put them in order, from the mildest to the most intense. Imagine yourself picking up each one and wrapping it with care. Picture yourself placing the gift under a tree, and then walking away.” Jennifer Weiner (That Summer)
23. Ornaments
“Their very special, very very favorite ornament continued to inspire them that Christmas and for all the Christmases that followed.” James Barbato (The Magic Christmas Ornament)
24. Gingerbread cookies
“Maybe it’s like making Christmas cookies by yourself. There’s nothing wrong with it in theory, but you’re really supposed to be doing it with other people, and not just any other people.” Anna Quindlen (Miller’s Valley)
25. Christmas dinner
“Eating a huge home-cooked Christmas dinner was his personal favorite. Evan would look around after each Christmas Day was done. There were empty dishes and torn-up wrapping paper on the ground. Monty was passed out on the couch stuffed with food. Evan would close his eyes and hear the day. He could feel the memories that were just made.” David Rangel (Evan the Christmas Elf: Ghost Hunter)
26. Boxing day
“Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning. Time can’t be given. But it can be shared” Cecelia Ahern (The Gift)
27. Hygge Christmas morning
“Hygge is about an atmosphere and an experience, rather than about things. It is about being with the people we love. A feeling of home. A feeling that we are safe, that we are shielded from the world and allow ourselves to let our guard down.” Meik Wiking (The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living)
28. Christmas market
“Love visiting the Christmas markets up north. Mia would too. Vienna, Prague, Budapest. When it’s snowing outside and there’s ice-skating and Christmas trees everywhere. Desserts everywhere. Mulled wine, hot cider. Everyone is so happy, running around in their thick jackets and wool hats. It’s a fairy tale.” Boo Walker (A Spanish Sunrise)
29. Lights
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” Maya Angelou
30. New Year’s Eve outfit
“It’s like something in a romantic novel. There’s a war on and it’s New Year’s Eve, and I’m wearing my first Worth gown in the moonlight.” Deanna Raybourn (Whisper of Jasmine)
31. Santa Claus letter
“She could see that he was less happy and more surprised, like a parent discovering that Santa Claus was actually real. He’d answered the letters and eaten the cookies and left the presents under the tree, but he’d never expected a fat man to come sliding down the chimney.” Brit Bennett (The Vanishing Half)
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