The prompt I pulled out of the box of David Gibson’s Street Photography Challenge cards this week was to find something in the street that you find ugly at first, but after a longer look can see something beautiful about it. By coincidence, his prompt title “Ugly Ducklings” suits my photo, for I found aContinue reading “Street photography: Ugly ducklings”
Tag Archives: Black and white photos
Street photography: From above the street
On a rainy afternoon last weekend I went into the city and walked around the main indoor shopping centre where I found good vantage points on the upper floor for photographing people below. This was my goal, with that very prompt in mind from the box of Street photography challenge cards by David Gibson. WhileContinue reading “Street photography: From above the street”
Street photography: Split image
This week the card I randomly chose from the box of David Gibson’s Street Photography Challenge cards asked me to compose an image that is split in two in an interesting way. I walked the streets looking for such a scene and took a few photos, but none is as good as the one below.Continue reading “Street photography: Split image”
Street photography: Someone looking into my lens
I pulled a new card from the Street Photography Challenge box by David Gibson and found myself with a task that would take time. The challenge laid down was to catch someone catching me with my camera. These two shots, the walking man and seated woman, looked at me as I passed them by. TheContinue reading “Street photography: Someone looking into my lens”
Street photography: Upside down
This week I chose a card from the Street Photography Challenge box by David Gibson that asked me to look at things from a different perspective. Take a photo of reflections and turn it upside down, he writes. The photo above of a casuarina branch arching up from the pond surface is one I tookContinue reading “Street photography: Upside down”
Street photography: Obstructed View
This week, having randomly selected a card from The Street Photography Challenge box by David Gibson, my task was to photograph a scene where an object blocks the view. At a charcoal chicken shop one night I was surprised when I looked in the window to see a number of chickens roasting nicely on aContinue reading “Street photography: Obstructed View”
Black and white brigades
For my last black and white post comparison, I’ve played with a photo from my father’s WW2 album, darkening the image to bring out the words taken from Churchill’s most famous speech in June 1941: “We shall never negotiate with Hitler”. I’m comparing it with a photo I took in 2017 in Amiens, France, ofContinue reading “Black and white brigades”
Black and white plate stacks
Once I was sitting near a café counter where I could take a close photo of the stacks of plates and cups waiting to be used. The resulting picture reminded me of one taken in about 1941 in North Africa, probably Egypt, which I found in my father’s WW2 album. The man in the turbanContinue reading “Black and white plate stacks”
Black and white Art Deco
A few years ago I went to Napier in New Zealand, the Art Deco ‘capital’ of the world due to the style of its architecture constructed after the commercial part of the town was destroyed in an earthquake in 1931. I took this photo (on the right) of one of the buildings with vintage carsContinue reading “Black and white Art Deco”
365 Unusual Things: 323-329
323. A potter friend made a ceramic egg carton, put a few eggs in it and advertised it on Facebook who took it down because it promotes animal products. She took the eggs out, advertised it again, and it passed the test.
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