Buddy portrait

[Customize!] Around the office

Find a notable spot near the office (a statue, a building, a park, a famous street) and take a photo there. (Organizers: replace this with a GPS challenge to a specific local landmark, a trivia question about your neighborhood, or a photo prompt at your favorite local lunch spot.)

[Customize!] Company origin

Take a creative photo that represents your company's founding story: the moment, the place, the first product, the founders. (Organizers: replace this with a trivia question or photo prompt about your founding year, the founders' first office, your first customer, or your earliest product.)

[Customize!] What we stand for

Take a photo expressing one of your company's core values in action: a real moment, a creative interpretation, a staged scene. (Organizers: replace this with a prompt tied to a specific value, a story behind your mission, or an artifact that captures the culture.)

Coffee initiation

Find the coffee machine, kettle or whatever caffeine ritual lives here. Take a photo of yourself making your first drink at the company. Bonus if a colleague has to show you which button does what.

Cross-functional handshake

Find a colleague from a department completely different from yours (engineering meets finance, sales meets ops, design meets HR). Take a photo together that captures the contrast.

First teacher

Take a photo with the first person who taught you something today, big or small. Write down what they taught you so you remember it next week.

First-day desk selfie

Take a selfie at your new desk on day one. Looking slightly unsure is allowed and encouraged. This will be the "before" photo you laugh at in a year.

Lunch crew

Have lunch with at least two colleagues you had not met before this morning. Take a group photo of the spread, the people and your sad sandwich all in one shot.

Meeting room hop

Photograph yourself in three different meeting rooms in one day. Different rooms, different poses. Try the smallest room and the largest room if you can find them.

Mystery role

Find a colleague whose job title you do not yet understand. Ask them to explain what they actually do in one sentence, then take a photo together.

Personalized desk

Hunt down the most personalized desk you can find: decorations, framed photos, a wall of stickers, a small army of action figures. Take a photo, then ask the owner why they picked one specific item.

Plant patrol

Every office has at least one plant (or one very lonely cactus). Find the most photogenic one and take a portrait of it as if it is the cover of a magazine.

Snack discovery

Find the unofficial "best snack" in the office: a candy drawer, fruit bowl, sneaky cookie stash, fancy chocolate someone brought back from a trip. Take a photo of it (and yourself with it).

Sticky wisdom

Find a whiteboard, sticky note wall or any surface covered in handwritten team thinking. Take a photo. Bonus if you can decipher one of the notes and explain what it means.

The lounge

Find the most "lived-in" spot in the office: couch corner, kitchen, table tennis room, whatever passes for a lounge here. Take a photo of yourself in full relax mode.

The veteran

Hunt down the longest-tenured colleague you can find today. Take a photo together and write down one piece of advice they offered.

The view

Take a photo of the view from your workspace. Window, hallway, monitor wall, brick wall, whatever you will be staring at for the next stretch of your career.

Tool of the trade

Ask a colleague to show their favorite work tool. Could be a piece of software on screen, a notebook, a specific mug, a chair they fought for. Take a photo of them with it.

Workspace reveal

Photograph your full desk setup at the end of the day: monitor, chair, whatever you have decorated it with. Empty water bottles count as decoration.