Happy Holidays everyone! This year I chose holiday pets as the subject matter for the #DDGchallenge. Dream away and may your 2021 be better than 2020 was!
Category: Source Challenges
Christmas #DDGchallenge 2019
Impromptu Santa Source #DDGchallenge 2019!
2019’s Thanksgiving Source #DDGchallenge
Use these turkeys as source images for your dreams! Happy Thanksgiving Deep Dreamers????
Source Challenge: Shoes
Shoes. They can be sensible, frivolous, fashionable, ugly, shiny, dirty, uncomfortable, bespoke, orthopedic, fetish, iconic and so much more. They’re made of all manner of materials, not just leather, synthetics, canvas or rubber. Get them from bargain bins, high-end shops, supermarkets or second-hand. Shoes come in all colors and shapes to meet your particular needs: wear slippers, boots, flip-flops, work shoes, sneakers, high heels, mocassins, sports shoes, and wear them with or without socks or […]
Source Challenge: Architecture Reflections
Choose your favorite architectural source image and make it into a reflections dream!
Source Challenge: Old Family Photographs
Here’s a new source challenge for you. Take your time finding material for this challenge. As you know, our challenges never have a closing date! Simply scan an old or even historical family photograph and make it into a dream. Alternatively, if you don’t have, or don’t want to use, a personal photograph, use public domain material. Here are some useful sites for historical family photographs: Wikimedia Commons, category historical images of people; Library of […]
Summer Source Challenge Part 2
Summer, summer everywhere and not a drop to drink… Choose your favorites from among these Unsplash and Pixabay photos, make Summer Source Challenge Part 2 dreams, and post your best work below!
Background vs Foreground, Bird Source Challenge
This #DDGchallenge is an exercise in differentiating background from foreground while using style transfer. All of these birds have distinctly different colors and lighting in their backgrounds. Find or create a style image with matching lighting/shading/colors that capitalize on the distinction. This can be done as simply as searching through potential styles for the right colors. Here are some places to browse: https://unsplash.com/t/textures-patterns https://pixabay.com/illustrations/search/art/ Or by finding two (or more) different styles that appropriately match the foreground […]
Fractal Flower Challenge
Flowers are everywhere at the moment so I thought I’d add a few more. Adapt the styles/sources any way you like and use them for dreaming. Anyone in the Deep Dreamers FB group is welcome to use the images cultivated especially for this challenge. Full resolution images can be found here
Summer Source Challenge
All images are copyright free.
Horse Challenge
Horse Challenge We haven’t run a challenge in a while. Hope you like horses as much as we do! Post your best dreams in the thread below.
Chinese Year of the Pig #DDGchallenge
It’s time for another DDG challenge. Here are some public domain images of pigs for your dreams to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Pig starting on February 5, 2019!
Festive Season Source Challenge

Here’s our new Festive Season Source Challenge. Images are original photographs and copyright free. I took the shots this week at a Garden Center in the UK. It’s always worth taking your camera/phone to these places, as they are full of interesting things to dream. Make sure to post your best dreams below!