Urban Silhouettes, Sports, Wildlife And More – The Weekly Community Roundup

Welcome to our weekly community wrap-up. It's been an amazing week on the Light Stalking forums with great photography by the community and the discussions in the forums have been engaging and very inspiring in the recent weeks. We've have more members joining the community each week, making the forum experience even more exciting.

Here is the Photo Of The Week that is judged by Federico every week. This week's photo of the week is by Anita Lawrenz. Read more about it here – Photo of the Week—February 20th

We also announced the winner of last month's photography competition. Read about it in the forums here, or on the main blog here.

First Place: “Staring Zebra Close Up” by Kim B

The weekend photography challenge from last week was “Urban Silhouettes” and members came up with their creative interpretation of the theme by capturing very interesting shots – some of them are shared below.

This week, we have a new challenge that has some very beautiful submissions already. Join the challenge here – Emotional Shadows

Here are some “Urban Silhouettes” photographs from the past week's challenge that we thought were great and should be included here:

Here are photos shared by members in other forums like General Photo Chit Chat, Landscape Photography, Macro Photography, Astrophotography, etc.

Interesting Threads in the Forums:

Our members have started some very interesting threads so you can follow and get inspired and some where you can also post your own photos. These are great ways to learn more in terms of photography and the natural world we live in.

Moments Through a Dirty Windshield – Started by Retired Grunt, who will be posting photos from the project weekly. These are moments of life that he captures while he drives although some are taken while parked.

Mono mood – A series of interesting photos in monochrome by Patrick

Porch Photography / Multi Weekly Photos – Robert Apple has started a new thread where he will be posting photos from his back porch and captured on his Motorola G5.

Patrick started a thread late 2024 – “Community Inspired Photo Story Challenge” – capture a story in 3 to 6 photos that hold personal significance and post them with a brief description. While that thread was started to be completed within a week, it has been open with ongoing submissions for the past year and is still open where members can post their stories.

Interesting Topics And Discussions:

Storage and Organization – a discussion on storage and organisation of digital images, started by Stefanie Markham.
Gone Bananas – a discussion on Nano Banana Pro, started by Rob Eyers
Insufferable Bores – Check out this thread started by Rob about pseudo-intellectual gatekeepers in photography.
This is Disruption – Patrick shared this interesting podcast – worth a listen and follow if you like podcast or anything creative

If you are someone who captures images with your smartphone, we have a Mobile Photography Challenge where you can post your mobile photos and also check out the works by other photographers. The images must be captured and edited on a smartphone. Join to submit the photos over here.

There are also some members' picks that are featured. These can be chosen by any of the members and are put in a whole new thread of their own and called out as being a great addition and shot for the forums. Check out those stunning captures here.

Here are some throwdowns to follow and post your own photos, or you can start your own throwdown too.

LED Light Throwdown – Started by Pat Garrett – Does anyone use colored LEDs? Please post your images. I’d like to see how others use them.

Square Crop Land / Seascapes – Started by Robert Apple – Small, Large, Macro / Seascapes, just make the crop Square.

Hi-key Throwdown – started by Tersha – Show us your hi-key shots …

Let’s see your favorite soccer photos – Started by Derek Robertson

Water and Stone – Essential Elements in the Make up of our Planet, post what you got! Started by Robert Apple

Fade To Black – Monochrome Throwdown – Started by Patrick – Feel free to share your Black and White monochrome below – No Rules Except B&W only.

Negative Space Photos – Started by Retired Grunt – Negative Space is basically your subject surrounded by nothing but a single color or texture. All sky, all water, all sand, can be utilized strongly. The intent is to isolate the subject and keep the viewers focus on the subject.

Photographing Natures Textures – Started by Robert Apple – Pano, Macro, or anything in between. Only Rule, Nothing Man-Made, natures effect on man made objects is OK.

Wildlife Throwdown – Patrick started this throwdown as we have quite a few new members in the forum who are interested in wildlife photography. Please feel free to post anything wildlife , whatever you love your choice from tiny beast to to kings of the wild.

And, there are images posted in the Shark Tank forum where members request for constructive criticism/feedback on their photos.

If you'd like to join in with our members, feel free to join us on the forums. We'd love to see you there, and we are a friendly bunch.