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16 18 ramillies street, london w1f7lw nearest station: oxford circus fridays free from 5pm! plan your visit a story behind a photograph invites young photographers to write a text exploring one of their own photographs, or a whole body of work.young people are paid to write this a presentation of work, explaining the why’s and how’s behind the image. past examples can be found here. if you would like to write an article, you can submit your idea to projects@tpg.org.uk. once the article has been commissioned by the tpg team, submission deadlines are four weeks later. if you would like some extra tips and guidelines to start writing, our young writers guide has ideas on how to kickstart your piece. more information on the tpg young writers programme can be found here. georgia writes about their photograph read all about it it’s the first summer after the pandemic and i’ve moved into a flat in london with my best friend. we’ve known mathushaa sagthidas writes about creating her project not just brown, not just indian orry shenjobi examines her photograph wá, make i tell you something. mia cross shares a story behind her photograph escape angana narula shares a story behind her photo project resist cameron paterson shares the story behind his photograph one man tells tale and other parts yazid rowe habbari shares the story behind his photograph outside looking through janaki mistry shares the story behind her photograph series might bang, might not jackson mount shares the story behind his photograph enclosure annie lee shares the story behind her photograph, sip, and feel yourself become the warmth of the setting sun abigail evans shares a story behind her photograph knife and thumb holly houlton shares a story behind her photograph, the light at home immaculata abba shares the story behind her photograph grace holding her bedside rosary valentin schörghuber shares the story behind his photograph grandmother gertrude jannell adufo shares the story behind a portrait of her friend kenechi british born nigerian artist joshua odulate shares his picture diaspora girls saffron lily explains the story behind her photograph a new normal filip skiba shares the story behind a portrait called felix a fairytale reflection from farihah chowdhury on her photograph three lil pigz maks socha's describes the story behind his photograph homer saskia drake explains her series latex feet replication aisha seriki shares the story behind a picture of someone she had just met develop ambassador nathan ford shares a story behind his photograph kieran in the first of this new series, dea urovi shares the story behind one of her pictures hayleigh longman shares the touching story behind a portrait jennifer forward hayter shares a story behind the photo project they were ours join our newsletter for all the latest news, events, exhibitions and special offers 16 18 ramillies street, london w1f7lw nearest station: oxford circus fridays free from 5pm! plan your visit home for the next generation of photography about uscontact uswork with us copyright: the photographers gallery 2025   registered charity number: 262548   the photographers’ gallery limited is registered in london no. 986208

visual stories by marili persson   4 min read a photograph has the ability to convey emotion, mood, narrative, ideas and messages   all of which are important elements of storytelling. we often takeimages that arepart of a set or portfolio, but it’s also important to seek out pictures that can stand alone   that invite you in and make you feel like part of one particularstory. our camera is a tool we use to tell that story, to capture not only a moment in time but alsosomething bigger. some photographers happen to be in the right place at the right timeto catch those moments, drawing the viewers into the frame and making them think deeper.stories are all around us, one just has to look with eyes wide open.here we feature our favorites from our partnership with focus on the story international photo festival, along with the stories behind each and every shot. “as a spiritual christian religious group that originated in russia, the doukhobors(or “spirit wrestlers”) are unique in their practices of pacifism and rejection of modern materialism. this ideology led them to rebuff many orthodox church rituals in russia, for which they were exiled in the 1840s. while about a third of the doukhobors emigrated to canada at this time, those who remained ineastern europe resettled in gorelovka, a tiny village in the javakheti region in what is now the south of georgia. with the fall of communism and the creation of an independent georgian state, many in the doukhobor community found it advantageous to return to russia. however, a small and dedicated, but dwindling, group remains in gorelovka. preferring to live communally, the doukhobors’ share a religious space, which they use for worship on sundays and holidays. while they are christian, the doukhobors differ from more orthodox sects in that they believe that god livesin each person rather than in books (such as the bible) and other religious trinkets. nevertheless, their shrine in gorelovka, have been intentionally and systematically desecrated. as the gorelovka doukhobor community dwindles,only about 40 families remain, and of those, only about 10 persons continue toregularly attend ceremonies at their shrine. one of these members is particularly important.acknowledged by their community as their last hope, dasha is the only youngmember of their community to continue carrying on their traditions. she participates in their weekly rituals, including dressing in traditional garments and visiting the shrine for prayers. dasha represents the gorelovka doukhoborcommunity’s last hope because she is young enough to continue their traditions pass them on to future generations, and share them with historians and documentarians. dasha is a russian name and it means god’s gift.” “it was a street photo of a couple splitting. the man going for a business trip it would seem. a melancholy aura surrounded them and that’s what attracted my eye. it was taken on the streets of london, while exploring the town. also taken during the earlier hours of the morning.” “one two.. shoot!” this photo was taken in bangkok. they were part of a beauty competition that day and performed a show. some of them were playing rock paper scissors, but others waited for the time to pass.” “took this photo onthe main avenue in sao paulo, brazil, called avenida paulista. it was during a manifestation against the country’s government, more specifically to ask for the (then) president’s impeachment for corruption. the written words “fora corruptos” in the sign the lady is holding, means “out, corrupt” in portuguese. it was a period of a lot of tension and everybody was on the streets to claim for justice… children, elderly, all classes united. this movement happened sometimes, all in the same place, and gained a lot of attention. the president was impeached later on.” “building collapse: inner city calamity in downtown são paulo at largo do paissandú; 3 am may 1, 2018. the abandoned former federal police steel and glass skyscraper, which had been invaded by street people, imploded in the early morning hours and the neighboring buildings, including the lutheran church on avenida rio branco, were destroyed by fire as well. this photo taken may 9, 2018 at largo do paissandú and shows the efforts by firefighters and the debris removal crew as well as the damage to the two neighboring edifices. this photo captures the situation in a tri dimensional view (3 affected building situations) and the status of the current work in progress.” “i was photographing the color run 5k race in south bend, indiana in 2014. this fun race took place throughout the city and was open to everyone. as people ran through stations, they were covered in colored chalkuntil they reached the race end. i don’t know either of these men, but the joy they had at finishing the race was heart warming to see. most of all, i loved how in the current days of uncalled for prejudice between races, this shows nota black man, not a white man, but friends covered in all colors happy to see each other. i think the story behind that is what made me want to capture the moment.” *”i often think of desert landscapes at sunset as being a catalyst for contemplation and meditation. on an adventure through joshua tree national park, i planned to capture the sunset at keys view. as a landscape photographer, i was watching to see what the light was doing, as the sun was setting, in order to find the best vantage points for the shots i had in mind. while i typically focus less on people and more on intriguing landscapes, i happened to notice two interesting gentlemen, dressed in cowboy garb. they were actively embodying that very idea of contemplation, as they were gazing out on the desertscape before them. not wanting to miss a great opportunity to share this scene with the world, but still being respectful of their privacy, i asked if they wouldn’t mind me taking a photo of them from behind, just as they were. in true cowboy fashion, they sort of shrugged their shoulders in approval and continued to study the scene before them, seemingly lost in thought. i fired off a few shots and captured this golden moment.”* “it was quite early in my gap year in south america. for a couple of days i was in paraty, brazil   a lovely small colonial town south of rio. on my last day there i took a walk through the center when i started to notice that the water level was rising. before i know what was happening i was standing knee deep in seawater. it was astounding to observe how some people in town seemed relaxed when the water level stopped right below the entrance of their house. others were completely stressed out to get their car and other belongings to safety. the girl in the picture, seems to belong to the latter group of people. maybe she had to save something or maybe she just wanted to join the other kids enjoying playing in the water. it was really stunning to be right in the middle of this with my camera without even knowing what was going on. hopefully one day i’ll go back to paraty to enjoy this spectacle once more.” “this was taken in coney island, nyc just along the boardwalk near the famous lunar park. i noticed her from a distance just sitting in her chair watching the world go by with her very large boot on. i wandered around for a while taking photos and returned to the area near where this lady was sitting about an hour later. in that time a person had setup some dj booth and was playing some house music. i couldn’t believe my eyes but the lady had taken off her large boot, gotten up out of her chair and was dancing and hitting her cabasa to the beat of the music. at first i was hesitant to take a photo of her, but she noticed me with my camera and smiled.” “this photo was taken in hatgal, mongolia, on may 1, 2008. i was going with friends to the shamans, but the weather had deteriorated and it began to snow. i went to the shore of the hobsugul lake (khuvsgul lake), and sawa local man come for fresh water. i took my camera to take a few pictures so i could remember this amazing place.” “this photo tells about the women’s march 2018 in bandung, indonesia. it was themed ‘gender based inequalities’, which included discussions about the oppression of women. the following five forms of repression: the exploitation, the marginalization, the powerlessness, the cultural imperialism, and the violence. as for the issues that were discussed in action this year:the child marriage, the violence against women, the discrimination against women, the women workers, and the expansion of the article fornication in rkuhp (the low of indonesia). in this protest, there is the sound of the voice of the women who feel oppressed.” *”the image is of a young karamojong male. the karamojong are a warrior nomad tribe in the northern most part of uganda, from the region of karamoja. the karamojong are traditionally nomadic herdsmen, but with the reach of modernization they have slowly,with resistance, fallen out of their ways. the karamojong region has lagged behind in development compared to the rest of the country due to various factors like environmental issues, insecurity, marginalization, illiteracy, poor health and poor infrastructure. the districts also have the highest human poverty indices of the country. according to the karamojong, poverty is on the rise in part due to persistent poor harvest and drought, cattle rustling and insecurity, animal death, lack of water, and limited sources of income.this image was taken as part of series of images depicting young karamojong males herding their cows in the early morning sunrise in kaabong district, one of the five districts of the karamoja region.”* “this photo was taken in hong kong, on the kowloon side, near an area where there are many flower shops.i like this photo because it makes me laugh and represents many different story lines. why did the young man purchase the flowers? perhaps for a first date? a friend’s birthday? his mother?” “sean bellwas wrongfullyshot and killedon the earlymorningofhis wedding by a team ofundercover nypd policemen in jamaica, queens, new york city onnovember 25,2006. two other friends,trent benefield, and joseph guzman were also shot but survived. the three menwere unarmed and their car was shot at50 times.outraged by the shooting, on december 16, 2006,rev. al sharpton and othersorganized apeacefulprotest marchfrom central park and 5th avenue to 34th street and 7th avenuein manhattan. while covering the protest for a local paper,ishotthis image on 34th street of thisgroup of protesterswith fists raised,calling themselves the“new black panthers,” using their cigarette lighters toburnseveralamerican flags hungover a bar.” “this photograph is captured in dhaka dockyard/shipyard near keraniganj at the bank of the river buriganga. a team of shipbuilding workers are working with their tools which were making unbearable sound, but they are used to it.” these images are from our mission with focus on the story photo festival, which takes place this weekend, june 7 10 in washington dc. discover all our missions here. to take part in an eyeem mission, download eyeem for ios or android.

today i am going to share with you the story of one of the most famous and most reproduced pictures of the 20th century: i am going to talk about the story behind the picture, the composition as well as the controversy surrounding the photograph. so let’s check out the v j day in times square. today i would like to talk about an iconic image, approaching shadow, taken by master photographer fan ho. today i want to analyze an iconic image of florence owens thompson known as migrant mother by dorothea lange. i am going to take a closer look at the composition as well as at the story behind the photograph. today i want to talk about this particular picture   muhammad ali vs. sonny liston by neil leifer . i am going to take a closer at the story behind the photograph and why is this picture so iconic. so, let’s get started. today i want to talk about this particular picture hyères france, the cyclist by henri cartier  bresson. i am going to take a closer look at the composition as well as at the story behind the photograph, if you are not familiar with henri cartier bresson make sure to check my previous video about his life and photography. today i would like to talk about a series of photographs. placing third in the 2019 photo contest of the world press photo in the long term projects, stories. let’s check out the state of decay by alejandro cegarra. “there are and have been and will be an infinite number of things on earth. individuals all different, all wanting different things, all knowing different things, all loving different things, all looking different… . that is what i love: the differentness.” what’s up photography fans! as you know i usually talk here about all kinds of street photography and photojournalism. the photo i would like to talk about today is a photo that changed the war in vietnam, a very important photo in the history of photography. let’s check out the the terror of war by nick ut, 1972. today i would like to talk about a very special photo, which ended up winning the 1st prize in the sports, singles category of the 2019 photo contest of the world press photo. let’s check out boxing in katanga! today i would like to talk about the photo that was the soviet’s “answer” to rosenthal’s iwo jima photograph, the photo that symbolizes the victory of red army over nazis. let’s talk about this iconic photo of world war 2, raising a flag over the reichstag. today i want to talk about a very famous picture taken by joe rosenthal, a picture that represented a symbol of unity in the second world war and earned him a pulitzer prize. let’s take a look at flag raising on iwo jima. today i would like to talk about a very special photo. a photo that basically marks the beginning of snapshot photography. taken by legendary street photographer henri cartier bresson. lets check out the place de l'europe gare saint lazare. today i would like to talk about a photo taken by one of the most well known war photographer robert capa, the photo that is very famous and also little controversial. so let’s check out the falling soldier. today i am going to take a closer at the story behind the photograph as well as the composition. tank man (1989)   the unknown protester by jeff widener. today, i am going to talk about a photo essay country doctor by w. eugene smith. i am going to take a closer look at the story behind some photographs and if you are not familiar with w. eugene smith today i want to talk about this particular picture “the kiss, also known as the kiss by hotel de ville.” "photography is like fishing. you go out, and sometimes you catch something." “bored with obvious reality, i find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.” “good photography is unpretentious.” “the artist’s task is to find the right point of view, the right angle, to create something that didn’t exist before.” “i am at war with the obvious.” about contact discounts faq youtube this site's seamless design was brought to life using squarespace, easier than you'd expect. want to design your own in just 15 minutes? here is how.

the beautiful thing about photography is that it can not only perfectly capture the sentiment of a moment, but the setting and time in which it was captured. like a time capsule that can transport the viewer instantly back in time to get a glimpse of what once was. a peek into the past. since the invention of the camera, we’ve been privileged to document some of the most notable moments in history   staged and candid. they filled our text books growing up and the small space in the back of our memory that gives us all the feels and nostalgia when we see them from time to time. which makes one think   what are some of the most iconic photos in history and the story behind them? the infamous alfred eisenstaedt photo is quite simply the perfect post wwii photograph as it shows a soldier and his love (a nurse) sharing a smooch. it symbolically signals the end of the war and a coming home to loved ones. this blurry photograph is just as famous for the same reason it’s so terribly shot   it’s the first permanent photograph taken in history. it was shot by frenchman joseph nicephore niepce in 1826 using his invention the camera obscura. the craziest thing about this photo is that the crudeness of it still took an 8 hour long exposure. it’s why you can see the odd shadows cast on both sides of the photo because the sun had moved across the courtyard during the lengthy exposure. not many photos encapsulate perilous playfulness as well as this acrophobia photo does. this 1932 photo of 11 men casually eating their lunch atop a towering skyscraper just perfectly sums up the rise of the heart and soul of america’s most famous city   new york city. it is one of the most reproduced images of all time as it symbolizes the american spirit of resilience and ambition. in 1969, the unfathomable happened. america put a man on the moon. during the heat of the space race, america and russia were going head to head for technological and astronomical glory. russia may have been the first country to put a man in space but america was the first to put a man on the moon. that man (men, actually) were neil armstrong and buzz aldrin. there’s something so eerily beautiful and obviously monumental about the simplicity of this photo that will forever immortalize it. sports have given us so many memorable moments. it’s the perfect blend of capturing the right moment at the right time. and on may 25, 1965, photographer neil leifer snapped the 23 year old heavyweight boxing champ muhammad ali’s knockout of sonny liston in just 1:44 into the first round. his tenacity, charm and talent are perfectly captured in this photo as he became one of the nation’s biggest athletes and political proponents. the hubble space telescope was carried aloft the space shuttle discovery in 1990. however, due to some malfunctioning, it wouldn’t be until a repair mission in 1993 that it would be back online and operational. and finally, on april 1, 1995, the telescope delivered one of the most spectacular images of the universe ever captured. the pillars of creation is the photo of the eagle nebula, a star forming patch of space 6,500 light years from earth. the pillars themselves are said to be 5 light years long. simply astonishing. with nearly two centuries of iconic photos to sort through, it’s nearly impossible to make a list of the most famous among the bunch. there’s so much history, passion, sadness, joy and every other emotion perfectly captured throughout the rise of photography and the evolution of the camera. this list is just a tiny sample of some of the most unforgettable. if you have a photo album of old pictures that are personally unforgettable to you, then now is the perfect time to digitize them. if you need multiple legacyboxes, please purchase separately.

sign up sign in sign up sign in member only story rodrigo s c follow full frame    22 share i am using this photo to tell you what i’m not going to tell you. there is a story here   a story worth telling. it deals with relationships, regret, loss, disappointment, greed, hope, and love. writing that story would take me days. unpacking that emotional bundle would require intense reflection, fortitude, and strength. the emotional cost of that experience would be paid with tears. then there would be multiple hours reviewing and editing the story to ensure that i was fair and balanced in my storytelling. it would be done because i love writing and i believe in the value of the story and the life lessons it contains. however, i am not going to write that story. it is a decision i have made to show support for my medium community. you have heard the noise   multiple writers expressing disbelief at what has been happening to our earnings in the past few days. many writers say they will not publish any more stories until this issue is resolved. you don’t have to look far to see stories like this:       22 the home of enthusiastic supporters of fine art photography. we respect its history, admire its present form, and look forward to its future. photographer, art gawker, musician, psychology geek. you want fries with that? help status about careers press blog privacy terms text to speech teams

photo by flickr design team in just over a month, over 13,500 amazing photos were submitted to this group. t... hi all! have you created a flickr gallery of your favorite photos from the g... on january 25, 2022***, we will host a photography critique on smugmug live, spe... hi there: from the author of last year's same topic, from the user that sugge... i’m hoping to get back to the oregon coast. this year, we are offering an additional prize package for a crowd favorite phot... hi all, please remember to tag your entries with the one keyword (category) th... chinese | french | italian | portuguese | .spanish how do i participate in the... hi all, 2021 contests winners will be announced on january 18 @ 11am pt (2pm... when and where will winners be announced? thanks more... search this group's discussions hi there: from the author of last year's same topic, from the user that suggested it a couple of times before that, from the non award winning amateur photographer that has my name comes... once again this thread for you to tell the world what's the story behind that photo you've shared. share with all of us how that photo came to light, was it planned? was it unexpected? does it portrait a loved one? is it an unrepeatable moment by nature like somebody's graduation, wedding, travel? well, yes, i know, i know, travelling is still not what it used to be but, anyway, sometimes going around the corner is already a full journey. tell us what makes those pixels special. because maybe, just maybe, not everybody will think "wow, that's a great photo" without context, but when you're clicking on "add to group", you have that story on your mind and you might consider it worth spreading. please, include a link to your photo using the usual format: [photo's url] (that is, your foto's url between brackets) so we can see what photo you're talking about, as it's not easy, and certainly not user friendly, having to look it up in your photostreams. other than that, thank you for sharing your moments, both in picture and in writing, because maybe an image is worth a thousand words, but giving words to an image does certainly add meaning to it. looking forward to reading your stories. 12:34pm, 2 december 2021 pst (permalink) www.flickr.com/photos/fondazionebassetti/51656480901 scatto foto da molti anni per l'attività della fondazione giannino bassetti. negli ultimi anni, con una attrezzatura migliore ho iniziato a dedicarmi ai ritratti. penso di avere molte foto tecnicamente migliori di questa, ma il 2021 è stato per noi di fondazione bassetti (come per tanti) un anno in cui non abbiamo potuto incontrarci a dialogare come sempre. gli incontri (che chiamiamo quasi sempre "dialoghi") si sono svolti "in remoto", tramite le piattaforme come zoom, skype, meet... in tante occasioni ho potuto fare solo screenshot per documentare l'evento. negli ultimi mesi molti eventi sono stati misti: con qualche persona in sede e molti in remoto. perciò ho scelto questa foto, dove il riflesso rimbalza tra il notebook, la tv che ripete l'immagine per altre due o tre persone presenti e il mio obiettivo: non è una condizione a cui siamo stati costretti in tanti? il riflesso e lo specchio della nostra immagine che viene proiettata in parti del mondo di cui non siamo neppure coscienti, anche questa è un'altra condizione molto attuale. eppure lo speaker che vi appare, una delle nostre più valide persone, appare serena, naturale, non angosciata, attenta, in ascolto. si possono leggere, riflessi e quindi capovolti, i frammenti di alcune frasi relative al prossimo incontro: "where and when ... barcelona ... moved from brussels to milan? ... february   in person (!) ...". l'incertezza del prossimo futuro, fra spostamenti, viaggi, luoghi differenti e un periodo, non molto lontano eppure ancora incerto. ecco il perché di questa scelta: una foto che reputo molto significativa. grazie per la lettura di questo messaggio. @tomcorsan per @fondazionebassetti i have been taking photos for many years for the activity of the giannino bassetti foundation. in recent years, with better equipment, i have started to devote myself to portraits. i think i have many technically better photos than this one, but 2021 was for us at the bassetti foundation (as for many) a year in which we could not meet to talk as usual. the meetings (which we almost always call "dialogues") took place "remotely", through platforms such as zoom, skype, meet ... on many occasions i was only able to take screenshots to document the event. in recent months, many events have been mixed: with some people on site and many remotely. so i chose this photo, where the reflection bounces between the notebook, the tv repeating the image for two or three other people present and my camera: isn't it a condition that many of us have been forced to? the reflection and the mirror of our image that is projected in parts of the world of which we are not even aware, this is another very current condition. yet the speaker who appears there, one of our most valid people, appears serene, natural, not distressed, attentive, listening. you can read, reflected and then upside down, the fragments of some sentences relating to the next meeting: "where and when ... barcelona ... moved from brussels to milan? ... february   in person (!) ..." . the uncertainty of the near future, between displacements, journeys, different places and a period, not very distant yet still uncertain. here is the reason for this choice: a photo that i think is very significant. thanks for reading this message. @tomcorsan for @fondazionebassetti originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) fondazione giannino bassetti edited this topic 38 months ago. my wife collects orchids, even if they’re “just” supermarket purchases. i was especially pleased to be asked by her to capture a shot of one. so there was a little bit of pressure to make a decent job of it! she seemed pleased, meanwhile this is also my entry to the group pool. 39 months ago (permalink) since it gives me a great sense of calm and in general gives me a feeling of peace, let's say almost zen this is the one i choose from my pictures posted this year. while working as a carrier i often see this place and i always tell myself i have to stop one day.that day i stopped by at the adjacent rest area but the light was already low and my real intention was to photograph the sunset. but the sky was not very interesting so i turned around to the calm waters and the reflections. in color the image had little dynamic range and in black and white the result is much better in my humble opinion. obviously exposure above the second and on a tripod. the lens is one of many vintage and this 100mm can give excellent results in terms of sharpness and also bokeh so for me it is an all rounder (except macro) as it is good for landscapes, portraits and nature. in addition, despite being a 100 mm it isn't heavy, it's small, and practical and easy to handle. originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) stefano rugolo edited this topic 39 months ago. j'ai choisi cette photo car j'aime, j'adore la camargue. une belle région qui a su rester un havre de paix pour ces magnifiques oiseaux que sont les flamants roses. _________________________________________________________ i chose this photo because i love, i love the camargue. a beautiful region which has remained a haven of peace for these magnificent birds that are the flamingos. originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) xtian du gard edited this topic 39 months ago. i took this image of the main street of the business district in westerville ohio at dawn on 4th of july. i got up at 4:30am to be on site before the sunrise. i had to wait for the sky to turn from black to blue. then i had to wait for traffic to disappear from sight. also i had to wait for traffic behind the camera to clear out, as the camera and i were standing in the middle of the street for about 30 seconds. finally, all the variables worked out in my favor. i chose this picture because it is one of a kind. the probability of all factors coming together again for this pristine shot is very low. i only had time to take 3 images before the morning traffic filled the street. 39 months ago (permalink) i chose this picture for the your best shot 2021 as i thought this picture best represented how i felt. the pessimism from when the corona virus started still stayed with me. didn't see too many friends, people in your life move on or sometimes you move on. as for this picture, i made my weekend trips to dc and to walk by myself feels lonely but it's the cost to be completely free. i was waiting for the metro to take me back home and was already exhausted from shooting. my camera was off and didn't really feel like shooting anymore but as the metro was just arriving something just told me to turn on the camera and maybe get a shot of the people in the metro. it's going so fast, so you never know how many people will be in the frame. and for this kind of shot you can only do it one time cause the trains slows once arriving at the station. this picture i took of the first car and could barely see the lady but it was just a quick flash and she was gone from my sight. i wasn't sure if i captured her at all but when i check on the back lcd, i saw her face, completely alone looking out. the picture immortalized her but you can see the fast movement of the metro passing through the picture. it's nothing original and a camera technique that's been done everywhere but it's one of those photos that you feel personally proud of. a week later i forgot about this picture, but when i saw it again, i really enjoyed looking at it on my computer screen. she was alone, you can't see her face completely with the mask, and in that moment she is only visible for a brief moment in time that the camera was able to see better than my own eyes. immediately, this picture reminded me of writers who wrote in the stream of consciousness style and thought this photo really did a decent job visualizing what 'stream of consciousness' would look like as a picture. sometimes at random moments we recall past memories or family, events, personal achievements, random facts, past love, regrets. it really made me think of my own time and how things keep going into the future and we can never recover anything from the past. luckily we have our memories, writings, audio files and pictures to remember the past but it is only a copy of that person or event. and this picture shows how alone we are in this world and so many moments keep fleeting from us as we get older. i added this photo to the 'urban' category but i'm not sure if it would be better placed in the 'people' category. i made a gut feeling of 'urban' category because of the setting she was in and because i'm primarily a street photographer. originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) thegirlwholeftthefridgeopen edited this topic 39 months ago. thegirlwholeftthefridgeopen: i think you made the right choice. 39 months ago (permalink) vincent parsons: thank you, vincent, my friend! yeah, i really like the dust plume in the photo! 39 months ago (permalink) this is rosie. she passed away this year at the age of 9 and this photo quickly became "the photo" to remember her by. originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) baker_1000 edited this topic 39 months ago. flic.kr/p/2mfsvbm my wife and i have traveled to iceland together five times since 2015, usually in the winter months. our trip in 2020 was canceled due to the pandemic, so we decided to use our tickets to go this past summer and explore parts of the country we couldn’t see during the winters. we had been to kirkjufell before when it was covered in snow and ice. it’s an incredible place and we both wanted to see it in it’s summer glory. luckily for us there weren’t many tourists at that time and we had the place to ourselves. if you explore the album you’ll see our photo in front of the mountain. while kirkjufell is one of the most photographed mountains in the world, i chose this photo because it means a lot to us. i hope you enjoy it. 39 months ago (permalink) i am an amateur astro enthusiast, and for the past few years my job consisted in telling stories (mainly about the arthurian cycle). i love to mix both science and imaginary in the stories i tell (for instance, the stories linked to the constellations) and in the pictures i take. at the time this picture was taken, i was feeling unwell to the point i had to take a sick leave, with advice to do everything i could to not think about my job. two friends suggested we went and took pictures one evening, so that it could lift everybody's spirits, and we ended using my knowledge as an astronomer to safely play with the setting sun while they told their own stories with their silhouettes. i absolutely love the whole series, it is a very dear memory of a time we successfully turned harship into something that made us smile and something we could share to make others smile. 39 months ago (permalink) the photo i submitted is of a 5 year old humpback whale that a little over 55 weeks earlier had been severely entangled in 2900 lbs of fishing gear just outside of ny harbor. a 4 day effort to disentangle the whale was successful, but the whale had serious injuries. no one had seen that whale until it showed up off montauk 3 weeks later and i was able to documents that it was alive and although injured, was apparently healing (according to colleagues at noaa fisheries who reviewed my photos. i observed and photographed this whale, the 2016 calf of nile, again 364 days after last seeing him. some of his severest entanglement injuries have healed and it was just a special moment to see him again 2021 photo submitted here's the same whale 364 days earlier originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) cresli_inc edited this topic 39 months ago. artie kopelman that’s a great story, artie. a really great choice! 39 months ago (permalink) i took my photo on the first full day of a holiday postponed by a year and a month. the weather was showery and not very warm. whilst walking along the esplanade at ventnor, i noticed a person sat on her own on the beach. i thought she was with another group that were swimming, and had been assigned the role of monitoring their clothes whilst they had fun amongst the waves. the scene seemed a little sad. having walked around to the pier, i realised she wasn't with the swimmers, but on her own. just sat in solitude, reading. now the scene didn't seem so sad. just people making the best of the situation (the weather, and that they'd probably have been somewhere far warmer if it hadn't been for travel restrictions), each in their own way. koma dori: this is a great photo, koma! after reading your explanation, i thought "would black and white have been better?" to show more of the sadness. but i think with your choice of using color, it shows a little irony how bright and open the beach is but she is sitting there alone in that vast empty space. great photo! 39 months ago (permalink) thank you. i did consider black and white, as the sand on this beach is so red that it dominated the scene. but i couldn't get enough contrast in black and white for the lone reader to stand out in the picture. leaving it in colour and desaturating red in the beach part of the photo seemed to work better. originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) koma dori edited this topic 39 months ago. one of my favorite end of the year traditions is going through my images and selecting my 5 favorites. generally from that group one will stand out to me personally, and that's the one i'll end up posting to the "your best shot" group of that year. i've not gone through that process yet this year, but i already know what image will be my favorite   this one! this particular image was shared on the flickr blog (you can read it here: blog.flickr.net/en/2021/05/28/16 questions about one phot...) where i talk about why i like the picture. however in the time since that blog, i can tell you that this image, and the pursuit of it, has inspired me creatively the rest of the year. i have since actually reedited this image, a version which i will share next year, and it seems to me to be one of those images i'll probably revisit the rest of my life. now i just need to print the dern thing and get it on a wall! 39 months ago (permalink) pyrheliometer: beautiful photo, sad story :'( 39 months ago (permalink) not only do i love this capture, i love the way i captured it. got up in the morning, still half asleep, and then i saw this magical sunlight under the kids' trampoline. that's all you need in the morning. 39 months ago (permalink) freundsport: it is a spectacular capture for sure! must have been the kids positive energy accumulating there under the trampoline! 39 months ago (permalink) i absolutely go by my own feeling. i assume most people would disagree that it's my best shot this year... but i just like this one best because it was very spontaenous and it has got a couple of different layers to it. 39 months ago (permalink) simple.joy: no, i can understand what you mean. i have pictures that aren't spectacular to the public but it just personally resonates with you. yeah i always feel like spontaneous photos are the best because you didn't prepare for it and it is hard to duplicate it again. i like the close up crop the photo 'simply' brings me 'joy'! 39 months ago (permalink) mine just stands out compared with the rest in my photostream. www.flickr.com/photos/postmanpetecoluk/51413284553/in/dat... 39 months ago (permalink) sunset and seafret this is my favorite photo from this year because it makes me think about my mother every time that i see it. she loved her butterflies and hummingbirds. i was missing her the day that i took this photo for it was anniversary of the date, some years later, that she was freed from her earthly pain. when i saw this hummingbird show up in my backyard on that day feeding on the few flowers that we have there, i quickly grabbed my gear and took one step out the door, just hoping to capture something since this was my first time really trying to capture hummingbirds. i snapped off a whole series of photos over a 30 minute period before the severe thunderstorm rolled through. after the storms, the flowers were pretty beat up and i never did have another opportunity the rest of the summer as that short period of time. makes me wonder whether she was stopping by to say hello. dedication: this photo connects me very much with my best friend who recently passed away. my heart is heavy and i am deeply sad. my soul cries out. he loved the mountains so much and every time he was with us in switzerland he wanted to see, feel and experience them. may your last trip home to your heavenly father will bring you real shalom   שלום. you were a great role model for us on how to live in peace with the world. i don't have the strength to continue for a while. please excuse me if i couldn't visit you regularly. i am a little afraid of the melancholic month of november which lies ahead of us. on my way home i went through one of the most beautiful landscapes in my beloved homeland. it was this golden month of october, which fills me with great gratitude every year. nature is my home and i spend as much time out there as i can. on this autumn day i was literally delighted, because the colors shone more intensely than seldom before. the day started very cold with  7 ° and with a view that could not be better imagined. the air was as pure as the crystal clear water of the mountain lakes. the hike up to this lookout point went through this larch forest and was fantastically beautiful, as was the view that was offered to me up there. with this view of the mountain lake up ahead, i hope to have brought you closer to the beauty of the autumn landscapes in my beloved homeland. at least this is my great wish. for me, the autumn landscape got the "golden coat of paint" at exactly the right time. if you can wander around in the mountains at this time, you feel like you are in a different, wonderful world. as if the whole beauty of the world would unite in a single month to say "goodbye" and then go into the icy winter for the next months to come back again next year !!! 39 months ago (permalink) a night to remember, doesnt get any better than this this image is unusual for me in two ways; firstly i don't often stray into b&w and secondly i don't often photograph people. a young couple had been climbing ahead of me up the bristly ridge, and we got talking along the way after i had given them a few pointers along the way. the young lady confessed this was her first time on the route but she was clearly a good climber. having topped out, we walked across the lunar landscape of glyder fach, and she could not resist clambering across the gigantic boulders and up onto the famous cantilever stone. she did look slightly nervous when she got up there, as it is quite high and exposed. i could not believe my luck when i found she was standing in a streak of light created by a break in the cloud. the 'lightening effect' looked pretty good in the original colour version, but even better in this b&w conversion. hope you like it. thanks to every one who visited, and especially those who faved and commented. best wishes. originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) cliveg004 edited this topic 39 months ago. (www.flickr.com/photos/mska59/51662650684/in/dateposted/) 2021 was a good year for my photos on flickr, for the first time some have exceeded 1000 views and 100 likes. this is good news for me, it means that despite the fact that i am no longer very young, today i am 62, we can improve. not knowing what to choose, i simply posted the one with the most likes, hoping you like it. what do you think ? thanks for your attention and ... good originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) mario scandale edited this topic 39 months ago. fondazione giannino bassetti: direi che interpreta bene i mesi trascorsi a dialogare con i colleghi su video rimbalzando da una città all'altra, il significato è profondo che è quello che conta in una buona foto al di là di come si sia realizzata, originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) mario scandale edited this topic 39 months ago. madrid on 9th jan 2021 was struck by an unprecedented snowstorm. i don't really know if this is my best photo but i have chosen it for the emotional impact of the disaster almost 10 months after madrid shut down because of covid19. most of us were in a state of disbelief! www.flickr.com/photos/138712277@n04/50816916446/in/album ... originally posted 39 months ago. (permalink) d.kevan edited this topic 39 months ago. grazie @marioscandale il tuo commento migliora ancor più il gusto di partecipare a questo concorso con foto veramente spettacolari. bellissima anche la tua! originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) fondazione giannino bassetti edited this topic 38 months ago. as in previous years, i had a difficult time choosing just one favorite. most of my favorite shots of the year were of insects, including some lovely butterflies and dragonflies, and dozens of species of wasps. i also had some photos i loved of white tailed bucks. after several years of photographing wildflowers, i've learned to do it fairly well, and locally there are hundreds of lovely species. and my most faved shot on flickr was taken in january 2021, a visually scrumptious photo of frost flakes surrounded by blue bubbles. i could have easily chosen any of these options, or some others. however, there is something special about walking local areas and getting to know individual animals. eight or ten times in 2021 i photographed a fox squirrel  maybe just one individual, or maybe more than one  poking its head out of one particular tree hole, sometimes with its tail wrapped around it. if the weather is cool, i look at that hole when i walk by, and since i always carry my camera when i walk anywhere, if the squirrel is there i take its photo. one of those images hit explore and became one of my most viewed shots of the year. but i particularly like the look in the squirrel's eyes in this one. "oh, you again. seriously?" 38 months ago (permalink) i wish i had a good story here. i hardly shot in 2021 due to personal reasons that kept me separated from my camera. this shot, however, was a product of diligent work for a law school. i tried every angle and light set up to capture this highlighted segment of a famous martin luther king quote. not my best shot. not even a portfolio shot, but i'm happy with it. 38 months ago (permalink) [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ladybellacyberpunk/51713520338/] hello! so i am really still going back and forth in my head to whether or not i will post what i am writing write now. lol. i know that a lot of people have a stigma about video games and pictures. i hope that i am able to help bridge that a bit. i have ptsd from war. i love photography and people, i am just unable to will myself out of the house to meet new people and take pictures, so i do it in a way inside my house. each picture set i take is with a character i personally have created. i create most of my outfits, the eye look, makeup, scars, i use tools to pose the character that are not in the game and i choose the scenery, as well as adding lights to the scene for a more dramatic effect. with this image, i created a look to be more futuristic and hard. i wanted her to look the part, this image doesn’t show most of the work i did under her helmet, but i just fell in love with everything about this photo. i think this picture looks powerful, but beautiful and delicate. i hope that you can appreciate that it takes me many hours and sometimes days to make these characters come to life. my favorite part is being able to photograph them when they are all done, and try to bring a realness to them. thank you for reading this, thank you for this group, thank you for your time! happy holidays everyone! originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) future party edited this topic 38 months ago. i was taking my husband to get the covid vaccine. apart from covid (which is already a 'good' problem!), we were experiencing a very difficult period: we had been away from home for months for a renovation that had gone on longer than expected. since the day was beautiful, we walked along the river po, which crosses turin, our city. it was a very bright morning (with a 'screaming light' as i define it : ) and in fact the photos i took came out very well (at least i think so! : ) all this beauty has heartened us ... it is really true that "beauty will save the world" !!! (as dostoevsky said) originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) donatella basaglia edited this topic 38 months ago. curiosity is a trait often demonstrated by our children. i always appreciate it in grown ups   and i’m sure we all love seeing animals and birds being curious. i's as if the distance between us and them suddenly decreases... i took this picture when visiting someone i know. their nice looking cat was young, and i thought he would be a great model. however, the impromptu photo session turned out to be challenging because the cat had never seen me before   so he was too suspicious and tense. fortunately, some time after i stopped shooting, the cat relaxed and jumped on the window sill to check out what was happening outside. i thought the window pane, full of water droplets and streaks, was a great background, and grabbed my camera again. i the end, the best shot i got was taken when he looked up to see what was causing all that rain. thank you, flickr, for opening this contest and this discussion. it is fun to see so many great pictures and touching stories! 38 months ago (permalink) this picture is completely without post production, which came out on the camera. the focal length is 300 mm x2 (digital teleconverter), which is 1200 mm for ff, without a tripod. i was only based on the balcony door on the 4th floor. this one picture from the series, reflects the unusual way to the sun, which sinks in the clouds like an uncomfortable space as if fog. at the same time, it is photographed through a tree crown without leaves that become like gorgeous shrubs, and everything is still a flowing layer of clouds. my opinion is an outstanding picture that is second to none and is naturale, made one exhibition. 38 months ago (permalink) it was the day my girlfriend broke up with me. we were destined to part. months of awkward phone calls. what's happening between us? do you still love me? i cannot understand. i came back to moscow. the distances in russia are vast. indeterminacy. summer. we hadn't seen each other for two months. i come from a small town you probably don't know. there in orenburg they craft amazing shawls. i bought her a light blue one for her birthday. she was trying on the present after telling me it's better for us to part. separated yet still together. the last moment uniting both states. this photo is a spell. the last thing she left me. maybe i shouldn't say that. i took this photo without much conviction. at that moment, only the unusual presence of a sphere in the middle of nature attracted me. it was only when i developed the image that i noticed its effect of the world upside down. i was struck and thrilled ... and also a little angry with myself for not noticing it while shooting. i've been trying to take good panning shots for a number of years. this is probably my best of 2021. i've always been fascinated with movement in photos. i enjoy bending the rules a bit, creating a photo that isn't static, capturing a dreamlike sequence in a singular frame. i chose this self portrait because i used to be a shy girl. i am 46 years old and now have the confidence i wish i had as a young girl/woman. many girls and women feel they aren't good enough. they hide their bodies and souls beneath layers of shame and self doubt. i wanted to create a photo that showed how beautiful and desirous it is to break free and live entirely in the moment. i wish that experience for every woman. 38 months ago (permalink) i have been learning large format photography with an intrepid 4x5 field camera. this image was taken on a misty morning as the sun started to show through the trees and the mist, its a favourite spot of mine for this type of photography. i particularly like this image not just because the composition and the exposure all worked out but also because of the problems i had in making it! firstly the tripod plate was loose on the ball head so i had to wait until the camera had stopped moving before i could take the image! having set up the chosen lens, general composition and selected the point where i wanted to focus i moved onto metering for the exposure. spot meter in hand, dead batteries! i metered by taking 3 or 4 incident readings with a light meter app and it worked out in the end! i included this image in the open category as it was shot on film and is in black and white. neither of these feature as categories in the competition! flic.kr/p/2mjakxy 38 months ago (permalink) sisu forever: i really like this photo and the story behind it! i am still struggling to have that 'break free' moment. there's so many things still holding me back so this photo gives me hope that we can do the same thing as well. 38 months ago (permalink) thegirlwholeftthefridgeopen: you are so very kind, and i can tell you are a kindred spirit. i struggled for years. you'll find your voice though. it took me half my life, but well worth every moment since then. blessings to you dear one. thank you for the beautiful compliment as well. 38 months ago (permalink) i visited my old mother who i see only two times a year and we hiked through local woods. there was a piece of land art, where someone had put two big old dead trees together. i took a photo from underneath which was the most dramatic angle. but the sky was plain grey. since i had no access to my photo collection, i took the sky from one of my early flickr photos and replaced the sky with one of my own photos. so this is really a composition, but i think it fits. oh, and none of my landscape or animal or people photos could rival those in this competition, so i tried in the "other" category. 38 months ago (permalink) during 3 weeks i went every day after the work to the forest near my home, for searching during hours and tens of kilometers an active nest of magellanic woodpecker, wich is an endemic bird of the patagonia. after following several adult individuals, finally a precious day i found a nest, with this handsome baby male inside. i chose this one to submit because of all the photos i took on my hikes and adventures this year, this was the one i wanted a print copy of. the day itself was a magical one for both winter hiking and photography as the light and sky kept changing, and the water on the lake was perfectly still, which made for incredible reflections. i had never seen it reflecting so perfectly, especially in the winter, so i took a lot of photos, but when i looked back through them, this was the one that kept standing out to me as my favorite moment and favorite photo from that day. 38 months ago (permalink) i happened across this work of art by olafur eliasson by accident   i first assumed it was somewhere else; it was night and the intertwined spiral staircases were unlit; it's situated in a open courtyard facing on a busy street with public access; there is a plate on the staircases wich allows only 10 persons on the stairs at the same time, but now it is closed comletely   perhaps nobody wanted to take the responsibility. two days after posting the pic it was selected for explore and it earned the most favorites of all my 4000 pictures, so naturally i chose it as my best pic in 2021. have great and quiet and peaceful holidays everyone and all the best for 2022! originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) florian106 edited this topic 38 months ago. so, it felt pretty epic at the time, almost magical. what you are seeing is the southern most piece of mainland canada (there is an island further south into lake erie). this is point pelee, ontario. the weather had been off and on all day but, when we finally made it down here (via a transport commuter carriage... the only way here unless you wanna hoof it or got a two wheeler with you), it somewhat cleared up. the sky was amazing, as well as the natural light. what was more important to us (the people in the photo are my two sons and wife) was that directly across the lake and a few miles south (sort of... ever hopeful, always trying to stay upbeat) in ohio was our daughter, who we had not seen in nearly two years, due to all this covid bullshit going on. we all ran to the edge of the sandbar, feet in the water, yelling her name! originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) paul b0udreau edited this topic 38 months ago. "heart music" is all about ali, the model here, who is also a singer and songwriter. she was the first model i worked with in depth to create my fantasy images, and when i had the idea for flying sheets of music it was clear that it had to be her for the picture. i asked her to sing one of her songs as i took the pictures and it gave the mua and i wonderful chills. 38 months ago (permalink) i was in the boston airport. the pup was in his own suitcase, his "mom" was fiddling with hers, getting it to close. so i asked about shooting this, she was fine with it. one of the spur of the moment things that happen to people. i keep the camera ready. most any day. originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) talented produce edited this topic 38 months ago. while reviewing the year to select my entry came across this, a shot from my walk in to work, which i had somehow completely forgotten. i enjoy shooting high contrast b&w, and the south bank is one of my favourite locations, and this captures both. that coupled with the strong geometric shapes make (what i think is) a good image, so it got my vote. 38 months ago (permalink) this year was an interesting conundrum. i definitely slacked off in the traditional photography realm, with my camera coming out far less than i'd like. instead i added a drone to my equipment list, and i mostly played around with video. this year also marked a return to traveling, and i made sure to bring the drone to play around in the wilds of the upper peninsula of michigan, figuring i could get some interesting shots of the scenery. one early morning i got up and drove out to point abbaye, the end of a peninsula sticking out into lake superior. after seeing the shot, i was amazed by the sense of scale, as well as the classic framing of sea and sky that speaks to my soul. in the end, i went with this shot, even though i had some better quality work from my dslr. 38 months ago (permalink) i enjoy taking portraits of people that reveal something of their character and was fortunate to get this photo at an open day at the bluebell railway, at sheffield park in the uk. there are over 100 passionate volunteers who maintain the engines and the lines. it's like stepping back in time, as all of the operatives dress in period clothing appropriate for the age of steam. it had been closed during the covid pandemic and this was the first day it was open to the public again. after all that had been going on in previous months it was relief to get out and get totally lost in a bygone era. i stood on the platform and watched as the engine started to come to life, with the steam building up and managed to capture this shot as the driver and fireman were waiting for the signal to leave the station. originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) (sue lockhart images) edited this topic 38 months ago. i started underwater photography to be able to identify the beautiful creatures i saw down below. i have now moved on to trying to capture them in special lights and giving more care to the composition. these small clownfish are difficult to capture because they are living in anemones whose arms are always moving with the current, as well as the fish swimming through them. for this shot, i had been lying in wait for about 15 minutes in front of the anemone for one of the fish to look at me. as my bottom time almost came to an end, it eventually did. on top of that, both eyes were looking at me which does not happen very often either. i have posted the photo as it was in the pool. if it is needed without my name on it, please let me know. i was not sure i could use another photo of the same object without having it posted to the pool. 38 months ago (permalink) my wife unfortunately suffered a serious injury in february of 2021 and after surgery and a spell in hospital was continuing to see her surgeon and other specialists. she was unable to drive herself so i'd take her to the hospital and because of covid regulations i was unable to be with her when she went for her consultation so i'd walk to the nearby headland overlooking the bristol channel with my camera just to get some fresh air and exercise and if something caught my eye i'd take a few pictures. i'd grabbed my fuji x pro2 when leaving home and hadn't paid much attention to the lens that was on it. turned out it was my 50mm f/2 prime and while not really my choice as a landscape lens the day was lovely and the light on the clouds way in the distance over south wales seemed particularly interesting   especially a line of squally showers that seemed to be hugging the welsh coast. so i decided to take a panorama and stitch it together later. a black and white treatment seemed to work well. the tower on the right is the remains of a windmill. although sometimes claimed to be medieval its construction date is unknown. the partially ruined church right centre is the late 11th 12th century old church of st nicholas and used to serve as a landmark for ships on the bristol channel on the left is brean down   the most westerly part of the mendip hills before they dip into the sea. the rock strata were laid down during the early carboniferous period, about 320 350 million years ago so its a view across to wales, but its also a view into the past originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) aimless alliterations edited this topic 38 months ago. since we moved to our current house a few years ago we now have a massive horizon. we watch the sun set further along the horizon till 21 june, then we watch it retreat back again. it's an amazing sky! we have also watched the increase in the number of wind turbines being erected. loved the richness of the sky in this photo. i also took a time lapse of the same sunset. i loved it so much that the photo is the wallpaper on all my devices. it's also just a wonderful memory of a great evening in the warmth. originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) stevie's reflexions edited this topic 38 months ago. all through the pandemic stage artists (dancers, musicians...) suffered for not being able to perform in front of an audience indoors. in the fall of 2021, thanks to a high rate of vaccination among the population, public health loosened regulations and outdoor gatherings were permitted. sylvain emard dance company performed prelude le cercle on the esplanade of place des arts surrounded with a live audience. the public, including myself, had to show their vaccine passport and id in order to attend the show. to get this low angle shot i sat on the ground, held the camera near ground level and framed the shot via the extended back screen. i took this shot with the sony a7r iv camera, sony 16 35mm lens, f/6.3, 1/320sec, iso 500. originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) transutu1958 edited this topic 38 months ago. i took this last month and i got a nice reaction when i posted it on my facebook account. here in wash dc, the capital crescent trail is one of the most heavily used bike trails in the area. the wash dc area is beautiful in the fall and i generally take it for granted. this time i captured it. 38 months ago (permalink) i managed, i think, to create an image of dignity from a humble circumstance. i was walking through a tunnel like area in downtown vancouver and looked up a dirt slope at the graffiti on the wall just below the 'roof'. there was light coming from the side where there was open sky and it looked really cool. i saw the fellow up there and thought the person and graffiti would give a good social dynamic type of shot in the context of someone who made that his home. i yelled up to ask if it was ok and he was very happy to pose and surprise to me, to show off his paintings. and to be honest, shooting in these areas, even when asking, can lead to some more or less uncomfortable encounters. but here, marcus not only was happy to pose, but wanted to so that he could show off his work. and those paints. those paints are not so cheap to buy at art stores by the way. i asked him to pose like this and he wanted to add his sketch book. he did arrange some of the paint bottles but other than this, this was how it existed. i shot from a little down slope to get a little separation between the camera and him, but also because the lower angle gave him some heightened dignity. i sent copies of this to an email address he said he had access to. 38 months ago (permalink) after a day's work, as we return home we reflect on the day spent, on the things done and on what we will do tomorrow. we often accompany our reflections with body gestures, such as crossing our arms. yes, cross your arms. it is a gesture that makes us enjoy the present moment, isolates us from the surrounding reality, helps us to reflect on what has been today and what awaits us tomorrow. the "reflection" of the commuter who returns to his home, is expressed in this photo, symbolically, in the reflection of the woman on the window of the train that will take her home. i've selected this as my best shot of 2021 as it was my most successful photo in flickr this year. i've photographed this church in birmingham on a few occasions in the last year in different seasons and weather conditions but this has to be my favourite with beautiful light and shadows. thanks for looking and i wish you a prosperous and productive new year! 38 months ago (permalink) i was up since 2am photographing the moonbow over yosemite falls in yosemite national park. eyeing the angle of the moon took me over to sentinel bridge where i would see the last moments of the moonbow at twilight time. i've photographed the moonbow multiple times and i've gotten better at it, but to photograph it during twilight was special for me. very fortunate and blessed to have witnessed this phenomena this past year. 38 months ago (permalink) the family... a sudden snowfall in january was a pleasant surprise as the weather was quite warm and the snow fell for the better part of the morning letting up in the afternoon. we made our way to heart lake, and found ourselves at the waters edge now completely frozen over. along the edge of the lake a young couple take their child for a toboggan ride through the park. i think the idea of finding something that just spontaneously presents itself as having some story to it is more interesting than posing a shot. a random found object in nature is something that has been a common thread for me   some weird juxtaposition to the branches & undergrowth. was someone wandering while playing guitar in this forest, a generation ago? where’s the rest of it? why is it hanging in a tree? also   what was the last song played on this guitar? i guess i’ll never know. originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) arteye photo edited this topic 38 months ago. this photo was taken with no preparation and was completely unplanned. i recently moved to west yorkshire from london. i am still exploring nearby towns. i enjoy taking abstract photos of buildings. i like brutalist architecture and this market building in huddersfield looked interesting and i just happened to have my camera with me. i wandered inside and looked up to see this amazing roof structure and so i took this shot. at the time i took this photo i was preparing for my first solo architectural photography exhibition. i had been invited to exhibit in a barber's shop in hebden bridge, west yorkshire. all of the photos i was exhibiting were 50 cm x 50 cm. i decided to include this image last minute, and it was the first of several photos that i sold in this exhibition. so i am proud of it. it still fascinates me. robin 38 months ago (permalink) i have been obsessed with trains since i was 3 years old, and all i would do after school that time was go to the same train station just to catch the same train. sometimes we would visit our grandmother who lived right next to cp's westmount subdivision in montreal, and sometimes we would go to the grand boulevard overpass that went over the train tracks. i am 13 now, and i have all the resources to know when an inbound or outbound freight train is passing, didn't know that those 'resources' existed when i was 5. sometimes even to this day, my friends and i would walk to the railway crossing that was right next to our school. i chose this photo not only because i love photographing trains, but how interesting they can be.   givens udeh. (please mind the grammar mistakes if there are any.) originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) phill_railfan edited this topic 38 months ago. my photo is so mundane compared to the ones i am seeing!! i have a squirrel that comes to our kitchen window patiently waiting for me to throw out some peanuts to him. i love watching the squirrels and the birds. originally posted 38 months ago. (permalink) carol (nona) edited this topic 38 months ago. this was one of those things that all lined up at random all on its own, and i just had to push the button. my picture features the annular eclipse that was visible over northern north america on the morning of june 10. you hear about something like an eclipse well in advance, but i live just outside chicago right on the edge of the territory that would see it, as the sun wouldn't rise here until the eclipse's last gasp. none of the maps were clear about whether we'd see anything at all, and i wasn't sure i wanted to bother with it. but i happened to wake early that morning and thought, "what the hell?" so i drove down to the lake michigan lakefront in chicago and saw one of the most stunning things i've ever seen. there was a slight haze over the lake, and the sun is naturally dim when it's that low on the horizon anyway, so i didn't even have to use a filter. i could look at the eclipse with my very own eyes. it was all over in about five minutes; that's how close i came to missing it. originally posted 38 months ago. 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orange salamander. december 2024 when i was a kid we had a really long country driveway and in the 80’s and 90’s we got a lot of snow. from what i remember, snow came in on halloween and didn’t wave goodbye until march. one time it snowed on my birthday in late april. life where i lived, when i lived it was pretty boring, the internet wasn’t a thing and we only got about 3 channels on the tv. sometimes i would get stir crazy at night, and pull on all my clothes and try to shovel the driveway. the snow ate up all the sound and it was quiet and cold but it gave me time to think. mostly i thought about snow plow contraptions, or better shovel designs. when my hands got cold, i knew i had lost the fight. cold and wet hands on the metal shovel almost always signaled it was time to give up. you just can’t work with cold, wet hands. dad would have to get the rest of the driveway with the big tractor. in the barn where we kept the tractor was a green salamander heater. or at least that’s what we called it. salamanders look an awful lot like a jet engine missing an airplane. salamanders are loud and smelly but put out a lot of heat. if the old tractor wouldn’t start, dad would aim the business end of the salamander at engine block and in a few minutes the tractor was running. dad showed me how to carefully put your hands close to the business end of the heater and warm them up. as a kid i learned that too close and you melted your gloves, but if you did it just right, your gloves would soften and feel amazing. sometimes dad would hold his bare hands in front of the salamander. when he took his hands away from the heat they would steam in the cold air of the barm. it looked like his hands were on fire and i loved watching that. as i got older, i got brave enough to do it too. the other night when i was out for a walk with the camera i saw the light pouring out of that shop. i stopped to take a picture and asked myself what my subject was, as i often do, and realized with was that orange salamander. somewhere inside i wondered if those mechanics, did the same trick with their hands on cold days. there is this thing, that happens, if you wander. nearly impossible to explain in 2024, in this country, in this culture. it doesn't always happen, but if you set out with no intention you get shown things. maybe they are things you need to see. or maybe you just notice the things, you're wondering about. i tend to carry a camera, and people often stop to ask what i am doing. last night a man in a rusty black pickup rolled up slowly and asked if i was ok. i pointed to the sunset and explained and he said, "i'm sorry," as he pulled away. no need to be sorry, sir. what probably would never make sense to a sensible person is, you have to get lost, really disconnected, to find things. when i am out there, i am searching. when i am out there, i'm working on being lost. most people don't have time for that. north country cemetery. september 2024 i've been pretty sick for the last few days. i got just sick enough to actually miss moving. despite capitalism's best indoctrination the greatest gift still is a healthy body. lose it for a few days and you'll know. when i was finally able to get upright i grunted my sneakers on and felt the sparkle of weakness in my back. off i went for a slow neighborhood walk with the trusty canon camera. i was rusty and i wasn't moving fast but something distinct happens to a humans spirit as they move through the particles of space and time. the novelty of adventure is like swing oil for the soul. the sun itself started to do that thing that only photographers notice it does. she was setting golden spotlights on dusty uninteresting stuff. i love it when she does that. i noticed the neighbors yard on the corner. a long chainlink which was frequently adorned with the annual of the season stuck out first. the bluish grey chainlink and the warm morning sun made for the perfect compliment. the warm picked up the cool and made a perfect friend. i clicked a few frames and kept on. ask any seasoned photographer and they will tell you photography is mostly about the light. sure you might have the perfect subject, but if it's in poor light it won't ever be a great photo. but sometimes, just sometimes, if you have great light even a mechanically produced artifact like fencing looks nice. i guess that's the beauty in being mobile and having the ability to notice. it's such a simply beautiful thing, being able to move and see new things and appreciate them. but i guess being sick for a handful of days, unable to climb out of bed, helped me be able to see it too. and that's the greatest thing about life. the log cabin 2019 my family didn’t really say much about him anymore, but that wasn’t really unusual. grandpa owned a dark blue dump truck, and a green backhoe that used to sit under an old walnut tree at my grandma’s house. he died before he got to use them much, i think. in the summer the leaves would flip and roll in the wind and the light would shimmer on that barely used dump truck and backhoe. i remember thinking about how lonely that backhoe must have been, chained tight to that homemade trailer with no one around to use it. i think grandpa died in the 1990’s when i was about nine. i remember the day he died, meeting at my grandma's, and later cleaning out the apartment on the end of his bar but not much else. on sunday mornings when we would visit him at his bar, he would get me a reese’s peanut butter cup, and i would sit right on the corner and happily eat it. he would take me into the kitchen to show me the french fry cutting machine followed by lifting the cover on the ice machine to marvel at all the ice. i would pull the handles on the cigarette machine, and shoot the shuffleboard puck down the alley on the fresh shuffleboard wax from the night before. the bar he owned had a lot of stories, i’m told, and almost always smelled like cigarettes and spilled beer. i didn’t really remember grandpa well, but in pictures we have, he put me on his backhoe and showed me how to dig. he would take bar debts in trade sometimes, and the farm equipment he got was everywhere on my grandma’s farm. as i grew up i learned how to operate on most of that equipment, and somehow, i think part of my landscape business hinges on those machines he left behind when he died. today that old bar is falling in on itself, long since abandoned, and i am afraid it won’t be there much longer. i wanted to go back inside one more time and look at the place that gave me so many fuzzy vignettes. i can remember the space, the smells, and the small physical details, but i really can’t remember him. for old times sake i bought two reese’s peanut butter cups at a gas station down the road and brought them back with me in my camera bag. after i had finished up shooting pictures, i used my finger to write “thanks” in the dust on the old bar and left a reese’s right in the spot i used to sit. i walked out and happily ate the other one on the ride home and marveled at how complex and interwoven life is. today i developed my first roll of e 6 slide film at home in the kitchen sink. i now understand why everyone says you must do it at least once in your life. pulling those positives out of the tank and running water on them and seeing the image was amazing. i will say though, the cost and difficulty of developing has me thinking about sending the chrome films out for processing, but time will tell on that. winter is a tough time to be a photographer. your hands are cold, your bed is warm, and everything just looks bleak and uninteresting. during lean times, i use a few tricks to keep me motivated. i typically switch to panoramic images, and like to shoot expired film for a bit of mystery and difficulty. anyway here is one from a nice sunny winter walk with the mamiya 7 and the 80mm lens. when it rains all day i think of a camera near and dear to my heart. i think of the mighty fuji gsw690iii which was my first medium format camera. the large and unusual looking camera shoots a nearly large format image and the quality of the optics are impressive. i got the camera in march of 2020 just before lockdown started and many days i just drove around in the rain/sleet with it just looking out at the world. the camera is rugged, incredibly simple to use and it gets the weirdest looks for its sheer size, but wow is the lens and the size of the negative impressive. here is a shot i took at beaver lake in baldwinsville ny. the detail won’t show in insta, but on a computer screen these images are hard to beat. the mamiya 7 has this amazing thing. it’s made by mamiya and it is a fantastic addition. what i am speaking of the the panoramic adapter for 35mm film that converts your medium format camera into a panoramic beast. what is important to understand is these images are wider than the xpan and can be made for a fraction of the price. that is, if you happen to have a mamiya 7 laying around and didn’t want to spring for a very very expensive xpan. roughly the adapter is 400 on ebay, so you can get a medium format camera, plus an xpan killer for less than the cost of an span alone……wow. anyway here is an image from a lazy walk around town: i did something that i usually don’t do on our anniversary trip to puerto rico this year. usually i bring a bunch of cameras, film, and bulky accessories. i carry so much that i usually bring a huge camera backpack with multiple compartments and most of the time i bring at least 2 camera bodies. it is a huge hassle in every sense of the word, from pulling the film for the tsa to inspect, to getting a sweaty back from lugging a heavy backpack. this year i decided to just bring one camera, my favorite camera, the fuji x100v. i brought it in a tiny little go pro case with a lens hood, sd card dongle (fuji’s software is not that great), and a spare battery. rationale my rationale was the fuji x100v is small and light and i could use the film emulations both in camera and in lightroom at home to make the images have that filmic look. i was super happy with the camera and how light and portable it is. i love the fact that it charges via usb c just like the ipad i always carry. i love the limitations such as a fixed lens and also the jpeg emulations built right into the camera as it saves editing time. while traveling it is inconspicuous, stays out the way, and more importantly my wife does not have to wait around for big lens changes, gear stowage, or large drawn out productions. results: i used the lightroom kodak portra 400 uc++ even though its a bit heavy handed. timber scene dec 2021 redfield ny i just had an idea i thought i would share after buying a new photobook by joel sternfeld. it’s messy. “the faster i try to go, the slower, i get great pictures.” take your time and slow down. henri cartier bresson said “that things made with time, time respects.” i think that this applies in so many areas but even photographic study. here are 3 examples: if i walk somewhere with my camera i get a lot of good shots but if i drive i get considerably less. our brains process visually at the speed of walking, not of driving. slow down. joel sternfeld supposedly took 30 years to make his “stranger passing” book. i can’t get over that. how amazing is it that people today, driven by social media, think a project can be completed in 3 months. i do this to myself. i shot a wedding once and shot about 1600 images in 4 hours. that is almost 7 pictures a minute. the big takeaway? i had very few keepers. now this isn’t a strict scientific study because i had never shot a wedding before so that was also a factor. i can’t help but think that my strategy of spraying and praying was just plain fear and it forced me into a creative corner. now fast forward to today and some of the old film cameras i am shooting for the north country project. i should medium format cameras which have about 8 10 images per roll. i shoot one roll per sunday. this intentional limiting and slowing of the process has forced me to see and work so differently that i am seeing huge benefits in my seeing and also in what i don’t shoot. that is huge.  chris i decided to take the mamiya 7 and the fuji x100t on a short 2 night vacation with my family this april. i am always amazed and how different the looks are out of both cameras but how capable they are. i am constantly blown away by the x100 series. what a phenomenal little camera. i find pairing the large medium format camera with the light nimble x100 the best of both worlds. in 1969 famed biologist nikolaas tinbergen won the noble prize for his work on understanding animal instincts and ultimately stimuli that caused these actions. his famous experiment involved realizing that gull chicks would respond to red dots on their mothers yellow beak as a signal to open their mouths and chirp for food. he was able to run a series of experiments where he discovered that using a yellow knitting needle with 3 red dots would super charge their response, even more than say their own mother’s beak. the chicks would chirp louder and longer when presented with the yellow needle and three dots. when the mother would come back they would chirp less loud and for a shorter duration. this work led to the discovery of what is called supernormal stimuli. basically biologists found out that animal instincts could be manipulated and super charged to illicit a greater response. what was so interesting is that upon studying humans we found we could do the same thing to humans and supercharge our responses to stimuli too. one popular example is the creation of brat dolls with super huge faces and eyes that supercharges our standard draw to human faces and made the toys incredibly successful as a toy line. we see this today with apps that use filters that distort the human face, plump the lips, and increase the size of eyes or other features of the human body on sites like instagram. carried over to advertising we also see this in hyper feminized or hyper masculinized images of men and women on say, television. by showing off curvy parts of the body or the “v” cut chest of a male this supercharges our normal reaction to mating and mate selection biases. in clothing design we see the placement company logos and slogans with certain color combinations on the seat of the pants manipulates our hardwired evolutionary biases. think about that the next time you see something written on someones caboose. food and the way it is marketed is also supercharged by playing up the fat, salt, and sugar as ingredients. food scientists know this manipulates our hardwired proclivity toward these ingredients in our bias as a survival mechanism. if you decide to look supernormal stimuli manipulation is literally everywhere. so how can you use this idea in your creative or photography work? realize that modern media and images are highly distorted to make sales and you are likely falling prey to these subconscious traps. they are everywhere. realizing that certain poses of models either play up or play down this hyper masculinity or hyper femininity and this can have drastic implications for you work and how it is received. understanding the power of the human face and how they can be manipulated is important for say portrait photographers. always be looking for supernormal stimuli and understand its effect on marketing in social media and the web. in 1927 a soviet psychologist and her professor noticed something interesting about waiters. waiters often remembered the detail of a patrons orders if the bill was unpaid. if the patron had paid for the order then the waiter simply wiped it from their mind. what they hypothesized is that our subconscious mind likes closure, and will work at all cost to close out a undone task. this is like handing a half done puzzle to a person. this effect also drives the magic of to do lists. you just have to check the box! we like closure so much that the absence of closure can be a strong motivator for humans to take an action. take for example the tv shows that roll the last scene of a tv show with the words “to be continued…..” or think about season finales on any of your favorite netflix binges. i bet most of those shows employ some form of this trick. which brings to photography. how can you use this in your photographic and creative life? some ideas: use a partial story to get people to go to other platforms or videos? in photo books use a series blank pages to stop the flow information and drive your reader forward. leave out a few essential items in your compositions to create tension in the viewer. unbalance the composition in a story set and the re balance it later in the sequence to add resolution. create gear checklists so you have motivation to get things packed before leaving. abandoned hospital. at it’s core the tug hill plateau has a beating heart of heavily forested land. estimates range from 235 to 800 square miles but there is no denying that this area is heavily wild and not very heavily populated. i can always tell when i get near the center with my truck, as the pavement ends and signs start pointing to seasonal roads. the best way to see this striking heart is by hiking or by atv, few roads exist in its interior. and while it pales in comparison to the size of the adirondack park hundreds and hundreds of miles is nothing to sneeze at. i guess what i am saying is it is ruggedly beautiful country and only a short drive from syracuse. when i was younger i often thought that communication meant what, “i said,” to someone. as i have gotten older i have realized it’s more about how the other person has heard or in most cases felt the message i tried to convey. in my mind when i share a story or thought with someone i imagine my story going in their ear and running over the complex machinery of their lives and coming out totally different than the way i intended it. sometimes it lands more beautifully than i intend and sometime more ugly. the reception of that idea often comes down to how well i know that person, but not always. it is for this reason that i love the study of symbology. moreover, i think, i love the mechanics of how it works differently in all of us depending on the spectacularly varied intellectual luggage that we all carry. like all forms of communication it is up to the interpreter and not the sender to understand the message. the crux of it is visual symbols can often seem obvious, but are anything but. symbols still have to abide by the common law of interpretation and run over a lifetime of complex thoughts, feelings, and experiences. the machinery of our lives does the real heavy lifting here. i like that. cross 2020 i have this crazy theory that photography is changed by the speed at which you are transported through it. put simply if driving in a car i can only see maybe 3% of the possible pictures i would take. if i ride my bike and therefore move more slowly through the particles i can maybe bump that up to 30 40%. but it really isn’t until i walk that i see 100% of the shots i might take on any given day. my hypothesis is that photography on foot is more granular, more detailed, and more thoughtful than anything you can achieve in a car. you move slower and at a pace that can allow creativity. driving is simply too fast to get good ideas. this sunday i decided to park my truck on this project and walk the little town of ellisburg and see what i could get on foot. i started at this interesting little mechanic shop and i just loved the signage here. mamiya 7ii with panoramic adapter and kodak gold 200 speed film (expired) deaf dog. november 2020 a train whooshing by, so i slowed down the shutter and shot a blur of it. today i decided to go up to the north county to shoot some film. the only issue was i have not been “feeling” it lately. partly i think this has to do with the changing of the seasons. partly i think when a project starts to get less compelling that is a good sign to carry on. whenever i get bored with my current photography project i try to give myself limitations. the limitations can be fun and also challenging forcing you to think on your feet. it often helps break up those inner negative voices as well. i decided not to bring any medium format film today but instead shoot only panoramic 35mm using expired kodak gold 200. it’s a much cheaper stock than i typically use and i could tell by the canister it was 5 10 years old. anyway here is some golden morning light and a longer exposure to get a bit of a streak. switch up the camera. try video instead of photo for the day. use a different film stock (or switch to digital, gasp) use a different aspect ratio (pano!) only bring one lens (bring a really tight lens if you use big wides most of the time) only use your phone try an instant camera like a fuji instax. i bought a cheap used canon lens about a year ago and i have really been surprised how great of a lens it is. actually so much so that i have left my l series zooms at home, and have been devoted to primes ever since. one interesting piece of lore is that this lens is one of the only lenses with a curving plane of focus that canon ever made according to ken rockwell. here is an example of the quality this lens can render in tough lighting conditions. powered by squarespace

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by funda nediceyuva | 07 oct 2021 this speaking activity aims to help students use their imagination to guess the story behind a photo. at the end of this activity, students will be able to use expressions related to expressing opinion such as activity description: **alternatively, you can have the class vote for the best guess to extend the activity. (5 mins) 40 intriguing photos to make students think   the new york times (nytimes.com) advancing the expertise of english language professionals mailing address 1925 ballenger avenue, suite 550 alexandria, virginia 22314 6820 usa telephone main: +1 703.518.2500 fax: +1 703.440.7461 contact usabout tesol tesol membershipsupport tesol advertise, exhibit and sponsortesol press bookstore accept

16 18 ramillies street, london w1f7lw nearest station: oxford circus fridays free from 5pm! plan your visit a story behind a photograph invites young photographers to write a text exploring one of their own photographs, or a whole body of work.young people are paid to write this a presentation of work, explaining the why’s and how’s behind the image. past examples can be found here. if you would like to write an article, you can submit your idea to projects@tpg.org.uk. once the article has been commissioned by the tpg team, submission deadlines are four weeks later. if you would like some extra tips and guidelines to start writing, our young writers guide has ideas on how to kickstart your piece. more information on the tpg young writers programme can be found here. georgia writes about their photograph read all about it it’s the first summer after the pandemic and i’ve moved into a flat in london with my best friend. we’ve known mathushaa sagthidas writes about creating her project not just brown, not just indian orry shenjobi examines her photograph wá, make i tell you something. mia cross shares a story behind her photograph escape angana narula shares a story behind her photo project resist cameron paterson shares the story behind his photograph one man tells tale and other parts yazid rowe habbari shares the story behind his photograph outside looking through janaki mistry shares the story behind her photograph series might bang, might not jackson mount shares the story behind his photograph enclosure annie lee shares the story behind her photograph, sip, and feel yourself become the warmth of the setting sun abigail evans shares a story behind her photograph knife and thumb holly houlton shares a story behind her photograph, the light at home immaculata abba shares the story behind her photograph grace holding her bedside rosary valentin schörghuber shares the story behind his photograph grandmother gertrude jannell adufo shares the story behind a portrait of her friend kenechi british born nigerian artist joshua odulate shares his picture diaspora girls saffron lily explains the story behind her photograph a new normal filip skiba shares the story behind a portrait called felix a fairytale reflection from farihah chowdhury on her photograph three lil pigz maks socha's describes the story behind his photograph homer saskia drake explains her series latex feet replication aisha seriki shares the story behind a picture of someone she had just met develop ambassador nathan ford shares a story behind his photograph kieran in the first of this new series, dea urovi shares the story behind one of her pictures hayleigh longman shares the touching story behind a portrait jennifer forward hayter shares a story behind the photo project they were ours join our newsletter for all the latest news, events, exhibitions and special offers 16 18 ramillies street, london w1f7lw nearest station: oxford circus fridays free from 5pm! plan your visit home for the next generation of photography about uscontact uswork with us copyright: the photographers gallery 2025   registered charity number: 262548   the photographers’ gallery limited is registered in london no. 986208

visual stories by marili persson   4 min read a photograph has the ability to convey emotion, mood, narrative, ideas and messages   all of which are important elements of storytelling. we often takeimages that arepart of a set or portfolio, but it’s also important to seek out pictures that can stand alone   that invite you in and make you feel like part of one particularstory. our camera is a tool we use to tell that story, to capture not only a moment in time but alsosomething bigger. some photographers happen to be in the right place at the right timeto catch those moments, drawing the viewers into the frame and making them think deeper.stories are all around us, one just has to look with eyes wide open.here we feature our favorites from our partnership with focus on the story international photo festival, along with the stories behind each and every shot.