Category Wordpress Photo Challenges
Weekly Photo Challenge – Blur
Blur is the theme for this week’s challenge and I suspect, like most photographers I have many blurry photos to choose from. I decided on this particular shot as it gives me a chance to write a little about ‘White Night’ – now a huge attraction on Melbourne’s event calendar. Melbourne’s White Night was inspired by […]
Weekly Photo Challenge – Ephemeral
When thinking about the definition of “Ephemeral” for this week’s challenge, i.e. fleeting, transient, lasting only for a short time, it occurred to me that it is a great word to describe the opportunities we have when taking street photographs. Often, the chance for the perfect shot can be fleeting and momentary, and sometimes it’s just good luck that you release the shutter at exactly the right […]
Weekly Photo Challenge – Fresh
Fresh is the theme for this week’s photo challenge. I took this shot while visiting New Delhi for a conference in 2013. A group of us took a rickshaw tour of Old Delhi and then wandered about the spice market. I came across this woman making beautiful garlands of fresh flowers.
Weekly Photo Challenge – Wall
‘Share an image of a Wall that reveals something about a place, people, or you’ is the photo challenge for this week. This photo was taken in Union Lane, which runs off the Bourke Street Mall right in the heart of the city. The mall is constantly abuzz with trams, shoppers, workers and tourists but just a […]
Weekly Photo Challenge – Orange
This week we’re asked to share a group of photos where Orange is either the dominant colour, or provides a bold highlight. We’re also asked to look for different shades – bright neons, deep rusts, delicate peaches. I used this challenge as an opportunity to look through my archives from travels through Turkey, Spain and Italy last […]
Weekly Photo Challenge – Reward
Last year my daughter and I spent three weeks travelling around Turkey. We had some amazing experiences – one of the most memorable being a balloon flight over Cappadocia. As the balloons take off just on dawn we had to be up and ready to leave before 5am. Our Reward? See for yourself.
Weekly Photo Challenge – Rule of Thirds
This week’s challenge is to use the Rule of Thirds, a concept that puts the subject of the photograph off-centre. It’s worth trying when you are framing your shot as it can make it much more interesting. The photograph I’m using for this challenge puts my subject – the cow – in the top third of the […]
Weekly Photo Challenge – Scale
The photo I’ve selected for this week’s theme of Scale was taken at our State Library from an upper floor where you get a birds-eye view of the magnificent domed reading room.
Lunar New Year
Today there is a festival at the end of my street to celebrate Lunar New Year and the year of the goat. Tens of thousands of Vietnamese people came to Melbourne in the 1970’s as refugees and then in the 1980’s through migration programs. Since that time Victoria Street in Richmond – also known as […]
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