MSA Themes To Date (June 2026)

[MattKing]

For those who follow, and for those who are tasked with choosing a new theme, here is a list of all of the MSA themes used so far - updated to the date in the thread title:
- 2026 -
O/N Figures and Silhouettes
O/N Communication
O/N Boats, Floats, and Moats
O/N Rocks
O/N Backlit
O/N Disorienting
- 2025 -
O/N By Human Hands
O/N Performers
O/N Birds
O/N Wide Angle Perspective
O/N Hotels, Motels and Places to Stay
O/N Close To Home
O/N Movement
O/N Surprise/Unexpected
O/N Form Over Content
O/N Hard and Soft
O/N Workplace
O/N As Seen

Continued in the next post - this one was getting a bit unwieldy!

 

[MattKing]

Continued from the previous post

- 2024 -
O/N Music
O/N Heights
O/N PLEASE BE SEATED
O/N Changes
O/N Blue Hour
O/N Power
O/N The Beauty of Decay
O/N Patterns
O/N Time
O/N Hallways
O/N Unicycle, Bicycle, Tricycle, Quadcycle
O/N Decks
- 2023 -
O/N The Cleft
O/N Letterbox/Letterboxes
O/N Leaves
O/N Macro
O/N Creatures
O/N Pairs
O/N Humor (aka Humour)
O/N Night Light
O/N Pillars - Columns
O/N Water
O/N Words and Symbols
O/N Fences/Borders
- 2022 -
O/N Iron
O/N Windows
O/N Shadows
O/N New Topographics photography
O/N Photos inspired by Literature
O/N Negative Space
O/N Wabi-Sabi
O/N Trees
O/N "Panorama"
O/N "Heritage"
O/N "Your Favorite Things" (2.0)
- 2021 -
O/N "Holiday Season"
"Mornings"
"Family Heirloom"
"Changing Season"
- 2020 -
"Record Album Cover Art"
"Interior"
"Streetlife"
"Altered Reality"
"Beauty/soul/fun/mood/? of technology"
'Heimat / Homeland''
- 2019 -
"Narrative photography - tell a story in a single frame"
"On the Way"
"Nature"
"Beginnings"
"Genius loci"
"Beautiness/Beauty"
- 2018 -
"Celebrations"
"Transit"
"Chrome"
"Public Art"
"One's Trash is Another's Treasure"
“Rhythms”
- 2017 -
"Gentle Low Slow Light .."
"Polyptych"
"Pareidolia"
"Experiment!"
"Healing"
"LISTEN TO..."
- 2016 -
“SUNDAYS”
“YOUR FAVORITE THINGS”
"Your Own World"
"April Showers Bring May Flowers"
"Follow The Path"
"Traces of People exposed"
- 2015 -
"Flying through the Sky"
“In Motion - People or Things”
"Suggest"
“Geometry”
"How to catch a light beam"
"Stone"
"H20 Isolation"
- 2014 -
"Two"
"Public Spaces"
“Near and Far”
“SALT”
“Cheap camera challenge!”
- 2013 -
"Transport"
“High Noon”
“The Color of Night”
“Round and Round”
"B&W Nudes & Bodyscapes"
"Unusual Shapes"
- 2012 -
"SUNRISES"
“Holidays”
"Angles and Curves"
"Between Sharp and Unsharp"
"Weekend!"
“WARM!”
- 2011 -
"inspiration"
"Inside Out/Outside In"
"Hats"
"Markets"
“Light and Shadow”
"Body decorations"
- 2010 -
“Festive”
"Objects Discarded"
"Feet"
“Faces”
“Blessings”
“Brilliant”
- 2009 -
“The End”
“Reflections and Mirroring”
“Signage”
“Water”
“Why you like where you live”
"Contrasts"
- 2008 -
“An Image of the profession”
"Movement"
"Skylines"
"Deterioration: something man has left behind."
"On the Road"
"Two People Doing Something"
- 2007 -
"Portals"
“Of great importance to your life”
“Leisure Activities”
"mealtime"
"Working Horses"
“Parallels (incl. Transportation)”
- 2006 -
“Face + Laughing Face”
"work"
“your favorite chair”