As we come down to the end of the year and enter fully into “the holiday season,” you soon won’t be able to go anywhere without hearing about home. Songs will extol the virtures of being home for the holidays, promise that there’s no place like home, and beg you, Baby to please come home. With that in mind, your assignment this week, should you choose to accept it, is to create an image based on the word home.

Your first thought on this challenge might be to grab your camera & step out into the front yard to take a quick shot of your home. There…done! And that would, technically, satisfy the objective.

But there’s so much more to “home” than just a house.

You’ve heard that home is where your heart is. It’s where you hang your hat. I dare you to think of home without thoughts of family creeping in there, too. When you finally clear the last obstacle you’re home free. Home is a metaphor for comfort and security, for feeling of love, belonging and acceptance. And there’s little else that can unsettle you like a home that doesn’t provide those warm emotions we bundle up with home.

So this week, I challenge you to do more than just take a picture of your home. You might try taking a picture of something special to you in your home. Or if you’re away from home at the moment, what about a shot of a person, place or thing that reminds you of home.

Whatever approach you decide to take with this week’s challenge, do your best to tap into—and help your viewer to feel—the emotions the word home evokes for you.