StreetWise
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New App on the Streetography
There’s a pretty cool smart new app on the street, going by the name of Streetography. Now this app helps you to explore new areas by crowd sourcing locations and information. It’s like a Maps for Instagram. By utilising 500px, Streetography essentially puts other photographers images on the map to help you explore. By viewing images of streets, through other photographers lenses, it helps you, discern where you might want to visit. Interested in street art? See if you can see any images of street art in that vicinity via the app. This is a new and upcoming app, it aims to branch out with locations portrayed throughout the world.…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – October 2016
“For me, photography has become a way of attempting to make sense of the strange world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding, but the fact that I am trying comforts me.” Mikhael Subotzky Thank you all so much for participating and inspiring us with your incredible photos. As always, it was difficult for us to choose such few images for the showcase from all those that were submitted – such stunning images in both color and black and white. Welcome, also, to those newer to our street photography community – it is great to have you join us! As a reminder, we choose…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Seventh Challenge – ‘Shapes and Geometry in the Street’
Hello Everyone! The theme of our next challenge is ‘Shapes and Geometry in The Street’ Deadline: October 31, 2016 “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place” Elliot Erwitt Shapes and Geometry are popular themes in any genre of photography, and street photography is no different. There are so many wonderful ways to incorporate both elements into your street shots. From the passing of a square or rectangular window, a circular cutout on a construction site wall, large triangular marble slabs on the side of a building there are numerous architectural details of multitude shapes, the repeated pattern of a floor…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – September 2016
“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.” Henri Cartier-Bresson It is incredibly inspiring to view all of the photos submitted to our StreetWise Flickr group from around the world – from stunning night scenes, to dramatic black and whites, to captures filled with color, to photos that touch the heart. Thank you so much for participating and inspiring us…
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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…
