Kitchen gadgets -- we all have a favourite and we all have one we've purchased on a whim only for it to be used once and then placed in eternal damnation in the back of a cupboard. For me, my current favourite gadget is my Nespresso machine, whereas my purchase of regret wasn't so much a purchase, but a gift for my better half; a mini cupcake maker -- we've used it once. Read More >>

For the last Shooting Challenge, I mixed things up a bit by asking you to submit the best of your worst images. I wanted to see the images that you would normally consign to your computer's trash as well as a little background info on why they were so bad. Thanks must go to everyone that took the time to sift through their collection send their bad ones in; you didn't let me down. Read More >>

Did you miss me? I know one of you did... Well, I'm back after a short holiday (didn't go anywhere, thanks for asking) and I've decided to kick things off with a Shooting Challenge a bit different from 'normal'. Read More >>

In the most recent Gizmodo UK Shooting Challenge I set you the task of capturing park life, using the lyrics to popular beat combo Blur's top 10 hit Parklife as inspiration. Some of you took the opportunity to step away from your screens, go out into the spring sunshine armed with all manner of photographic equipment and snap away. The one rule was that the images must fit the lyrics; which as it turned out, wasn't an easy task. Read More >>

I spent absolutely effing ages thinking of a suitable challenge for this week; I've a little black book with ideas, but I just wasn't 'feeling' any of them. So to the bookshelf I went; flicked through some dusty old tomes and still couldn't make my mind up. So returned to the little black book and saw an entry near the top.. "parklife' and then it hit me. Read More >>

Recently, Gizmodo UK celebrated the dreamers, the unknowns and the unsung heroes that many of us have never heard of. For the last Shooting Challenge we tasked you with shooting the heart and soul of where you live in the style of relatively unknown (until recently) amateur street photographer Vivian Maier. We also gave you the added incentive of offering you a sweet little prize; a Canon PowerShot S110 camera. Read More >>

This week Gizmodo UK is celebrating the dreamers; the unsung heroes that many of us have never heard of. These are the people that work tirelessly for their art with little or no recognition in their lifetime. Not wishing to deviate from this theme, it didn't take me long (about 30 seconds) to think of someone suitable in the world of photography. Mind you, if you enter this week's challenge and win, you won't be without recognition, because yes, we have a pretty damn good prize for this week's challenge. Read More >>

In the last Shooting Challenge, you were tasked with capturing nature taking back the land. Many of you jumped at the opportunity to capture the world around you given the shorter than usual time with which to snap and submit your entries. Read More >>

As the human populace continues to grow, the need for houses, buildings and other man-made structures grows too. This growth though comes at a cost: the reduction of our green and pleasant land, with natural jungles being pushed out in favour of concrete ones. Read More >>

The time has come for me to once again reveal the winner, or in the case of this week's result, the winners of the most recent Shooting Challenge. Originally, the plan was for me to pick one overall winner, but I was so impressed with two entrants -- one shot on a camera, the other on a 'phablet' -- that I decided both were worthy winners. Read More >>

The postcard: before the Internet and Facebook, it was the main way people communicated to those back home that they were NOT having a jolly good time and that they wished recipient was there instead of them. Today, the humble postcard has been resigned to the tacky tourist shops and the only people buying them are the blue-rinse brigade and sans-sock hipsters being 'cool'. Read More >>

While the snowy weather kept many of you entertained this past week, some of you took the challenge baton and ran with it. Boy did you run with it; making the job of picking a winner particularly challenging. On the surface, the brief was simple; take a 'streetscape' self-portrait in the style of celebrated American photographer Lee Friedlander. But the challenge was more than just a picture; I wanted the story behind it. Read More >>

The good old selfie; outside of photos of food, they're the staple diet of every teenager/wannabe Instagram/Facebook photo feed around the globe. I've had a hankering to do a Shooting Challenge on this topic for some time, but wanted to do more than just the usual 'take a photo of yourself without pulling a duckface' or posing in front of the bathroom mirror. Read More >>

With Christmas and 2012 well and truly behind us, we welcome 2013 with the results of our most recent Shooting Challenge, the subject of which was simply 'Christmas'. Read More >>

With the festive season clearly upon us, I could think of nothing better than doing a festive-themed Shooting Challenge for you to do over the next week and a bit. Actually, that's a lie; I could think of a better theme, but I needed to bang this challenge out pretty quickly. Read More >>