You’ve heard it before, but a photography bucket list is essential in life. Some people have one for traveling the world or achieving their career goals. But what about photographers? What are some of your photography bucket list items?
Since I started taking photos as a hobby, my mind has been filled with photographic endeavors that I want to achieve and places that I want to see. So today we’ll talk about how you can create your own photography bucket list!
- Learn to use a dark room
- Photograph animals at the San Diego Zoo
- Photograph a wedding
- Get 1,000 likes on instagram
- Create a coffee table book from your photos
- Photography the Grand Canyon
- Take the best photo of your life
- Become an Adobe certified Photoshop expert
- Complete a 365 project
- Have a gallery exhibit of your work
- Photograph the northern lights
- Take a picture of someone using only flash
- Get an extremely large print of one of your photos
- Photograph “the big 5” (animals)
- Create a series of farm animal portraits
- Photograph all National Parks
- Photograph your dream house
- Know your camera well enough to teach someone else
- Photograph Route 66
- Have your photo on the cover of a magazine
- Photograph sunrise and sunset on every continent
- Photograph penguins in Antarctica
- Setup a newborn photography session of a niece or nephew
- Take a real estate photography job
- Get permission to photograph a stranger on a vacation
- Get 1,000 followers on Instagram
- Sell out a limited edition set of prints
- Photograph a professional model
- Sell your photos at an art fair
- Take an African safari
- Take portraits of each member of your family
- Sell at least one photo on a stock photography site
- Create a calendar of your photos to be giving as a Christmas gift
- Take skyline pictures of every major city in America
- Photograph Petra – Jordan
- Win a photography contest
- Take Pictures at Machu Picchu – Peru
- Shoot street photography in NYC
- Take Photos at Burning man
- Buy your dream camera
- Photograph Angkor Wat – Cambodia
- Photograph The Giant Redwoods in Northern California