Your challenge this week, should you choose to accept it, is to create an image incorporating a park bench. That’s right…a park bench. A plain old, run-of-the-mill, common, everyday…park bench.

It might sound boring at first, but taking pictures of park benches can lead to some really cool images.

When you head out to a neighborhood park with your camera, you’ll probably notice that most of the benches in the park are all the same style. But go to a second park, and you just might find something completely different. Different parks are designed at different times by different architects & landscape designers, so from park to park, you will often end up with a dazzling array of styles & variations in the benches.

So there’s variety in the benches themselves, and then there’s how you choose to put your own interpretation on this challenge. Do you just point your camera at a bench & go “click”? (I hope not.)

Perhaps you’ll take one image and put a little “Andy Warhol” spin on the image:

Or maybe you’ll find an interesting bench and a willing subject to pose for you:

Whatever approach you choose to take with this week’s challenge, I hope you’ll have fun looking at those boring old park benches with a fresh photographer’s eye.