Photo a Day: Best Friend

Each day of the month we’re bringing you our submission of a themed Photo a Day challenge. Today, Oct. 14, the theme is Best Friend.

Who is your best friend? Is it an old classmate, a family members, a pooch, a spouse, or a glass of wine? It all depends on you. For our submission of best friend we took a picture of two face painted-youngsters hanging out in front of a Shrewsbury fire engine at the company's recent Oktoberfest celebration.

Well, they look friendly, at least.

Show us your Best Friend, whomever (or whatever) it may be! Upload it here, Tweet us, or email us.

Yesterday's theme was Favorite Place, for which we recieved user submissions from Jessica Lotito and Marjorie Smith. Tomorrow’s theme is Made You Smile. Check back in each day for our Photo of the Day and submit your own. Check out below for a description of the Photo a Day challenge and a list of October themes. 

Check out the submissions for yesterday's challenge here.

With the advent of media sharing applications like Instagram and the rapid rise in photo sharing across the internet through forums like Facebook, Reddit and even Patch, there have been movements to engender creativity in the digital photography community.

One such movement that has become popular is the now-ubiquitous Photo A Day challenge. While many sites across the internet offer their own interpretations and challenge lists, the goal is always the same, to capture a digital image each day that represents that day’s specific theme.

To participate, upload your photos directly to Red Bank-Shrewsbury Patch by clicking the "Upload Photos and Videos" button directly under the above picture, email us at edward.vanembden@patch.com, or Tweet us your pic at @redbankpatch. Though we plan on keeping to the schedule, feel free to upload your themed pics at your leisure.

Photo a Day Challenge October schedule: