Photo Comp Dec 2013 - "People"

[Meow]

Me and My Shadow.

[GoatFoam]

Another selfie.

[VNVObit]

It's Christmas time and the Natural History Museum has an ice rink outside (though no Christmas Fair strangely enough)



just snapped on my phone as I was passing by

and from inside one Saturday afternoon (also in theme but not my entry)

[nyarla]

OK, the month is almost over, here are my five favourite peopley photos for voting on..

Private Conversation

And second someone who was trying to avoid being photographed, which is. Unless I shoot a better one.

Heres one a bit more recent (and I think unused this time! ); Matt Bellamy of popular beat combo "The Muse" tries to remember how the chords go in front of 60,000 people:

My son sulking yesterday because he was over tired and didn't want to walk any more.

This dude!

Thanks y'all

[nyarla]

I took a bunch of iPad pics of my family over xmas, meaning to post some here (though not entering the compo obv)... a couple I really like.. but forgot to ask anyone'ss permission to put them online. D'oh! (Probably doesn't really matter but I don't know how they'd feel about it..) .. the compo slipped my mind in all the excitement. Also I got my gf, who's more into photography than I, her first DSLR (EOS 600D), man it's amazing and I'm jealous and I want one

[RiK]

And there we go then, a good win for Xstreme. Well done mate!

[Xstreme]

Ah cheers! Okay topic for this month, something that I have pretty much zero experience in - Street Photography.

What is street photography? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography
Some inspiring examples - http://121clicks.com/inspirations/the-b ... o-websites
Some useful tips - http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2013/0 ... otography/

Basically I'm really after a little glimpse into peoples everyday lives presented in an interesting way. I may even get out my comfort zone and have a go myself.

Have fun!

[(o)(o)]

Ah cheers! Okay topic for this month, something that I have pretty much zero experience in - Street Photography.

What is street photography? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography
Some inspiring examples - http://121clicks.com/inspirations/the-b ... o-websites
Some useful tips - http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2013/0 ... otography/

Basically I'm really after a little glimpse into peoples everyday lives presented in an interesting way. I may even get out my comfort zone and have a go myself.

Have fun!

Really enjoyed reading about your experience taking this shot.

Knowing the context helps to appreciate this photograph, too.

Despite "breaking the rules" - bloke framed dead centre no rule of thirds - I think the shadow and trajectory of road and hillside in the background draw the eye and defy that convention brilliantly.

Street photography eh? That's a challenge alright!! I'm up for it.

[Xstreme]

Really enjoyed reading about your experience taking this shot.

Knowing the context helps to appreciate this photograph, too.

Despite "breaking the rules" - bloke framed dead centre no rule of thirds - I think the shadow and trajectory of road and hillside in the background draw the eye and defy that convention brilliantly.

Cheers. I do break that rule a fair bit with my photography. Though in this particular case his eyes are sitting pretty dead on in the top third of the frame, so it does stick to the rule of thirds at least halfway I have noticed I seem to subconsciously do this when taking vertical portraits of people looking directly into the camera when the subject is filling (or almost filling) the frame.

Looking forward to seeing what people come up with this month. Although I really appreciate street photography it's something I've never really taken the time to pursue.