Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Seventh Challenge Results – ‘Shapes and Geometry in the Street’

Tuba’s photograph is a fun and whimsical image that captures all the magic of our theme ‘Shapes and Geometry in the Street.’ It is a bird’s eye view of a brass band in action. Wonderfully, they are forming their own shape – an arc — and as the viewer’s eye is swept around the frame it takes in the lovely features of this photo. The brass instruments follow that arc and the red drum beautifully pops out of this line-up. We also see the marvellous shapes of the stone tile, and, an added bonus, of a reflection in its shining surface of a skylight that has its own shapes – an incredible play upon triangles within a triangle. This reflection has a dream-like quality that gives this fun photo an extra oomph for marvellous.

Well seen, Tuba!

Michel’s photo is yet another wonderful example of ‘Shapes and Geometry in the Street.’ The subject is well framed so that the simplicity of an open door makes for an interesting image. Captured are the crisp lines of architecture on either side of the doorway from which rectangles and a circle of light emerge. The white mailbox, offset from a gray background, pops with the white lines framing the door. The square tiles of the floor in the foreground, lead the viewer to the subject wearing a little pop of red set against the monotones. What makes this photograph delightful is its obvious star, the dog (attached to it’s mysterious owner by a leash), who has turned around, as if on cue, to look straight into the viewer’s gaze. It’s not easy to get animals to pose, so I love this candid shot that incorporates shapes and geometry into a poster for adorability.

Fab photo, Michel!

Armineh’s photo is a great example of life mirroring art and illustrates how shapes and geometric designs in our environment can be transformed into a street photo by including a human form, un-staged, and taken spontaneously. The man is caught in the act of how so many of us find ourselves these days in public places – with head turned down lost in another world of our own devices.

The viewer initially finds themselves amongst the beautiful forms of this art installation, however, the inclusion of the figure gives the shapes perspective – the installation feeling ‘larger than life.’

The photo is a beautiful composition with the white rectangle in the right corner and the oversized white spoon in the upper right balancing the dark figure in the lower left. The form of the patterns to his right exquisitely mirror his stance, also.

Fabulous, Armineh!

Karen’s photo is a fascinating image that has a futuristic quality where one nearly feels disorientated looking at it – almost as if being in a house of mirrors.

There is also an allusion to the lithograph print  ‘Relativity’ by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, of the endless stairs.

The strong diagonal lines through the photo from the left upper corner to the right lower corner are so well balanced by the distant stairs to the left and the close-up stairs to the right.

One is drawn into the image by the high contrasts in the lower left stairs and the well contrasted silhouette of the figure to the right which appears to be a reflection.

The other figures to the left (one in the shadows and the other two which are just ‘body parts’) as well as the writing which is hard to depict, add to the mystery and intrigue of this fabulous capture.

Well seen and captured, Karen!

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