One of the wonderful things about being part of a photography community is that no matter how long you're around, there are always people striving to be extremely creative. This was another week of people surprising us with creative photos and some real stunners. Here's what went down in the life-stoking photography community this week.
Our weekly photography challenges always seem to produce the most people coming out of the woodwork, and this week was no exception with photography challenge number 809 with the theme of colourful urban life. The thread explores street, colour, painted buildings, vehicles, signs, reflections, and deliberately bold colour combinations that people really rose to the occasion for.
Jorge Carrillo's carefully timed photograph of a red Bangkok taxi was selected as photo of the week.
The new weekly challenge is natural contrasts, which has moved our dynamics of colour series into nature and has already had a few replies from various contributors.
There are also two photography throwdowns that got a heap of activity, including “maps of life” and “trees.” These are an opportunity for you or members of the community to create your own themes and see what other people come up with. And they're always a bunch of fun
Photo Of The Week
Photographer: Jorge Carillo
Jorge tells us that he waited around 30 minutes at a Bangkok intersection for a red taxi to move into the composition. This is an old street photographer's trick, and it is worth its weight in gold. This is a practical example of how this composition trick can really capture you something special. The tight overhead framing, a nearly all-red scene, and a white crossing lines produced an extremely clean graphic photograph. The judge Federico described it as a minimal composition that still suggests a story unfolding, and it's hard to argue with that.
Weekly Photography Challenge #809 Colourful Urban Life!
Last weekend was our first challenge in the new dynamics of colour sequence where members were asked to find colour harmony in urban environments and consider hue saturation, contrast, repetition as, well as the color wheel. This was another very active thread, and while it's been going for over a week it still remains pretty active here are a few of our favorite photos from this one.
The Current Weekly Challenge: Natural Contrasts
We're inviting members to use complementary colours found in nature to create bold and simple for compositions with this weekly challenge. Some suggested ideas from the challenge could include emotion and simplification, but it's really up to your interpretation.
You can enter your submission or look at others' here.
Some of our favourite photos of the week
Throwdown: Maps of Life
As mentioned above, there are a couple of interesting throwdowns this week with the maps of life throwdown really catching my eye. You can have a look at the full thread over here.
There are really no rules to how you interpret these throwdowns, so feel free to jump in with your own interpretation of the theme.
Was Ansel Adams a Fraud?
This one is sure to get a few spirited replies. So jump in. Robert Apple asks whether Adams fulfilled his National Park Service brief to represent nature when his heavily processed monoquarium images didn't really reproduce nature literally.
Patrick argues that Ansel Adams was hired as an artist rather than as a scientific surveyor and that the emotional power of the images supported the conservation purpose of the commission. It's a provocative headline likely to generate clicks and participation, but it's also an interesting philosophical question that falls outside of the purview of the forum's general intention
I think it's a great question if somewhat sensationalized, but it is certainly a great way to start a conversation! Join in here.
Lightroom Reflection Removal
Longtime member Pat Garrett talks about using Lightroom Classic's remove reflection feature on her office furniture shop window image and noted that the results surprised her. It's a small but timely editing detail attached to a visually interesting photograph that is worth a quick look for anybody who is interested in using Adobe Lightroom. You can join the conversation here.
Trees Throwdown
It's a simple idea and theme for a throwdown and I don't think it's one that we've actually done before so it was a very welcome addition for an extremely interesting photography thing started by Larry Shone. A few of the entries are above so I won't post them here again, but it'll be great for you to join in and add your own selections on the thread here.
As always, we would love for you to come and join us in the forum, whether you want to post your own photos or talk about other interesting topics that have been posted. If you're not yet a member, then you can apply here.
See you on the inside!
