Bingo 2024 is a wrap and we have a winner: Janan Lee from Melbourne, Australia! On Saturday January 4th, Janan’s name was randomly chosen from all the participants of the 2024 Bingo Challenge as the winner of a brand new Lensbaby lens. I guess getting up at 3am, was worth the effort!

What is a Bingo Challenge? It’s our yearly challenge for the members of our MeWe community. Every year we come up with a new bingo “card” of prompts to inspire creativity throughout the year. Some members knock out their images early like Tobias. While others scramble and finish up in the final days of the year. Whatever method is used, I want to personally congratulate everyone who completed the challenge!

In addition to our Grand Prize winner Janan, two lucky members received $50 gift cards to use at Lensbaby. As a Lensbaby Ambassador I love spreading the Lensbaby love. I’m thrilled that Lensbaby once again sponsored our generous (and much appreciated) Grand Prize!

2024 Bingo entries

To help celebrate all our winners I want to share all the entries into our Bingo Challenge. For anyone who has embarked on a challenge, 365 year long, 52 week or even a 30 day photo challenge, you know that its a struggle to finish. Sometimes creativity wanes, or life intervenes or interest is simply lost. Finishing and finishing strong is its own reward!

“It’s not where you start ― 

It’s where you finish that counts.” 

― Zig Ziglar

Tobias Schiel
Liz Fagel
Barbara McKenzie
Joanna Cowe
Mark Phillips
Mary Wardell
Chellie Hyre
Janan Lee
Sophia Hahn
Tao Liao
Stellan Johansson

Thank you and 2025 will be announced soon!

Thank you to everyone who entered our 2024 Bingo Challenge! And a hearty thank you to everyone in our community who cheered the participants along! Creating a consistent creativity practice isn’t easy. But having a trusted group of creative friends sure makes the job easier AND more fun! I’m grateful for this small, but dedicated group of MeWe friends.

If you’re looking for a group if international toy photography creatives to be inspired by…look no further! Join our MeWe Community! You can find the direct link here. Or learn more about the community here.

While the Bingo 2024 is a wrap, the planning for the 2025 Bingo Challenge is already in process. I’m working with three members of our community to create new and exciting propmpts to get your creative juices flowing. Just like our 2023 aND 2024 challenges, there will be a nice mix of technical and thematic challenges. Keep an eye on this space for our upcoming announcement about the new challenge as well as other exciting plans we are working on for this year.

As always, thank you for following the blog!

~ Shelly