Photo by:  Ryan Ruppe

The other day, I was fiddling around on Google+, as you do, and I saw that my good friend Brooke Johnson was planning on doing a very interesting project.  It’s a photo scavenger hunt that will last all of July.  The idea is to get out and make you do things instead of sitting on your rump.  I loved this idea, and have decided to partake in it as well.  Therefore, I will post occasional updates on my progress with this challenge.  I think it will be super cool.  For posterity’s sake, I’ve included the full text of the original challenge below, with a link to the G+ page of the fellow that posted it originally.  Should you feel like joining in, let us know in the comments below and we can all keep track of this together.  I’ll also be adding my G+ account off to the right.  I’m not on it as much as Twitter, but I get on and peruse occasionally.

Nabbed from Shaun McLane’s G+ profile.

Google+ (Un)Official Photo Scavenger Hunt #TheHunt

Are you bored? Want to be less bored?

If “yes”, I’ve organized a game for you for the month of July. The object of the game is to go out and do stuff. Interesting and different stuff.

The format of the game is a photo scavenger hunt. You will need to go out and take pictures. I have a list of 50 photo suggestions for you, and you have 31 days (entire month of July) to find as many as possible. Do your best to include yourself, or an index card with #TheHunt written on it so we know the shot is legit.

Create a new album, labeled “The Hunt,” to put your photos in, and include #TheHunt with each shot so they’re easy to find.

I have a feeling this will be incredibly fun, but we need as many people participating as possible! If you like this idea, and have friends that would like it, please share it with them. If it becomes a huge success, I’ll try to organize more in the future!

Best of luck to everyone!

Here are the items needed for the Photo Hunt:

1. Find a male with a mullet and have your picture taken with him
2. You eating a donut with a police officer in uniform
3. Picture of you with a firetruck in the background
4. Next to a tombstone with a deceased date before 1930
5. Laying in a hammock
6. Getting your arm autographed by a stranger
7. Sit in between two strangers on a park bench and get them to pose with you like your best friends.
8. Buy 10 cents worth of gas – take a photo of the receipt and pump showing the amount
9. Find a sign or billboard that has your name in it and stand next to it
10. Helping a stranger fold their laundry at a Laundromat
11. Riding the pony in front of a department store
12. Find the most interesting sign you can
13. Hugging a mannequin
14. Wearing a mask
15. Take your picture with an animal – preferably with an animal from a shelter, then provide the shelter details in case someone wants to adopt it
16. Create a work of art with sidewalk chalk in a public parking lot – include #TheHunt
17. Capture your reflection in an unexpected place
18. Picture of a train
19. Picture from the highest place you can get to – try to include yourself in the shot
20. A sunset
21. A sunrise
22. A building, statue, or sign that your town is known for – Even if it’s the “welcome to ___” sign
23. Full glass of your favorite (preferably alcoholic) beverage in your hand – like a giant g+ toast
24. A photo of you and one of your g+ friends together (not in a hangout) holding a small #TheHunt sign
25. Your feet in water (beach, lake, pool, etc)
26. Take a picture while riding a ride
27. A logo or signboard with a star on it
28. A picture of someone taking a picture
29. A single french fry on a fast-food napkin, with #TheHunt written on the napkin
30. An alarmingly out of date bumper sticker
31. A house with a red door
32. Three birds on a telephone wire
33. A bug or a water droplet on a flower
34. A garage sale sign (must be dated)
35. Picture of you in front of a sign for a university or college
36. You taking a bite of a food you have never eaten before
37. A public clock reading 6:59 with #TheHunt on a post-it, stuck to the clock, or below it
38. Someone hitting a golf ball behind you
39. A sign for Karaoke
40. A road sign that is also a first name
41. A change of address form with #TheHunt written as the new address
42. You standing next to a novelty mailbox (ie, shaped like a dog, shaped like a fish)
43. Someone fishing – or YOU fishing
44. Bathroom graffiti with either a phone number, a “poem”, or involves a pun
45. The inside of someone else’s refrigerator – Stick a #TheHunt post-it to something if you can
46. 100 of something…anything
47. The saddest person you can find
48. You playing an arcade game
49. Picture of you with a Wal-Mart “greeter.”
50. Sitting on the ugliest piece of furniture you can find

Happy snapping – and don’t forget to share this!