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Mobile Photography StreetWise Sixth Challenge ‘Reflection in the Street’
Hello Everyone! We are in the process of curating our September Showcase and wanted to thank you for submitting such wonderful images we look forward to sharing it with you soon! The theme of our next challenge is “Reflection in the Street’ Deadline: September 31, 2016 “A photograph can be an instant of life captured for all eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” — Bridget Bardot. While walking in the streets there are reflections everywhere, in windows, mirrors, on rainy days, in puddles, on metallic and shiny surfaces, that capture our attention — sometimes we even see our own reflection when capturing a photo. This challenge is…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Fifth Challenge Results – ‘Accessories on the Street’
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” Anonymous Welcome to our Fifth StreetWise Challenge Showcase ‘Accessories on the Street’. We are thrilled to share it with you. Thank you so much for participating and sharing your beautiful photographs of people you have seen wearing or utilising accessories on the streets where you live. We thought this would be a fun theme for our group and the photographs certainly illustrate that. It’s also nice to continue to see new faces, adding ever more dimension to this wonderful, creative group. As always, Lee and I hope you enjoy this showcase as much as we enjoyed putting it…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – August 2016
“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.” Henri Cartier-Bresson Such a joy to view all of the photos submitted to our StreetWise Flickr group from around the world! Thank you so much for participating and inspiring us with your images and welcome, also, to those newer to our street photography community. Once again, it was difficult for us to choose only a relatively few images from all those that were submitted – we were blown away by the quality of the photos. As a reminder, we choose images for the showcase that are in keeping with our group’s intention and guidelines “We believe that it is…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Welcome and Fifth Challenge – ‘Accessories in the Street’
Hello Everyone! We are in the process of curating our August StreetWise showcase and wanted to thank you all for submitting such great images – we look forward to sharing it with you soon! The theme of our next challenge is ‘Accessories in the Street’. CHALLENGE 5: ‘Accessories in the Street’ Deadline: August 31st, 2016 “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.” Epictetus, First Century, AD While walking the streets it is evident that the height of the summer season is upon us, given the attire and accessories that people are adorning themselves in. Our challenge this month is ‘Accessories’ – hats, sunglasses, shoes, purses, jewellery, watches,…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Fourth Challenge Results – ‘Connecting’
Welcome to our fourth StreetWise Challenge Showcase ‘Connecting’ We are thrilled to share it with you! The reason we chose this theme was to inspire images from and of people around the world ‘connecting’ illustrating ways in which we connect to each other. We thought this would be powerful and uplifting, and foster that feeling of community in our group. Thank you so much for participating and sharing your beautiful photographs of how you see people connecting where you live. We were moved by all of the wonderful, inspiring ways this group rose to this challenge — and it was also nice to see some new faces, too, adding ever…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – July 2016
“Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph” Andre Kertesz We were struck by the beauty of all the photos submitted to our StreetWise group from around the world (Italy, Belgium, Spain, France, England, USA, Cuba, Israel, Holland, China etc) – such a wonderful international collaboration of photographer’s work! Thank you so much for participating, posting to our Flickr group, and inspiring us with your photos. We look at all of them with the utmost consideration and it is a very challenging task to choose photos for the showcase from all those that were submitted. A reminder of our group’s intention and guidelines “We believe that it…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Welcome and Fourth Challenge – ‘Connecting’
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter” Alfred Eisenstaedt Hello Everyone! We are in the process of curating our July StreetWise showcase and wanted to thank you all for submitting such great images – we look forward to sharing it with you soon! The theme of our next challenge is ‘Connecting’. Lately we have been exposed to many images from the streets around the world in the media. As photography is such a powerful tool for expressing feelings and is sometimes more powerful than words, we thought this would be a good way to highlight street photos that illustrate the ways in which we…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Third Challenge Results – Minimalism
Welcome to our Third StreetWise Challenge Showcase – ‘Minimalism’. We are thrilled to share it with you! “Anyone can make the simple complicated; creativity makes the complicated simple” Charles Mingus. We were thrilled by your photographs submitted for our StreetWise Minimalism Challenge. This theme was indeed challenging, and Lee and I were so happy to see the wonderful displays of ‘creativity’ utilised by our group to come up with an eclectic array of images. Thank you so much for participating and rising to the occasion to inspire us once again with your photographs. We hope you enjoy the showcase as much as we enjoyed putting it together! Many congratulations to…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – June 2016
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” Robert Frank We were thrilled and particularly moved by your photos submitted to our StreetWise Flickr group and chose images for the showcase that are in keeping with our group’s intention and guidelines “We believe that it is important to focus on the key aspects of street photography composition, timing, juxtaposition, catching the decisive moment rather than relying on too much aping. We therefore feel that aping should be kept to a minimum cropping, tweaking exposure, colour, adding a grain or texture is ok but we would like to see you steer away from overly app’ed images…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Welcome and Third Challenge – ‘Minimalism’
“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.” Alex Webb Hello everyone! The theme of our next challenge is ‘Minimalism’ and will run until June 30th, 2016. We hope you will enjoy this theme and that you may see your street environment in a new way and from a different perspective. Often this way of capturing the streets entails finding an appropriate background, and then…
