Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Photo Assignment: Community

Glamorous East Sussex :) My mate's dad's got a cottage in a tiny village down there that he lets us have for free off-season, so a few of us are going down to commune with nature and punish our livers.
 
I'd better get my skates on... I've taken photos and written some words to go with them, but just need to slap it all on a web page.
 
Oh bugger... I meant to take some photos of the 'BMX community' on Sunday and thursday but hardly anyone turned up to the skateparks that I went to! I feel a bit skank for not entering the comps that I started. Hopefully I'll be able to enter the next one. Damnit!!!
 
Here is my last-minute entry: Community Of Musicians

Apart from one photograph taken today the rest were taken on the 30th of November and the 7th of December. This may disqualify them depending on how strict the rule is about the pictures being taken after the competition title is announced. In any case here are some pictures to look at even if they are disqualified.

I did another set on the same topic within the designated period but lost them after having to restore my hard drive. (That's why I have not been seen on the boards for a bit.)

Other information: these were all taken hand-held in available light. I used a s hutter speed of about 1/6th of a second with my arms braced on the back of a chair. I Photoshopped the colour out to unify the images because they were lit with a horrible mixture of red and green light. They were all cropped a bit but the flautist one was very heavily cropped as you can see from the texture and noise in the image.

Hocus Eye
 
Reminder all. The deadline is midnight. If people post their assignments to this thread, I'll compile them and put up a poll first thing tomorrow morning.
 
Done!

Community

I enjoyed putting that together. They're not my best photos, but the assignment got me thinking a bit more than the monthly photo competition does.
 
Skim, I like those pictures. I know Plymouth a bit and you seem to capture the general feeling of of the place. A once proud city has lost most of its major economic resources. It still has it's history though and I think will rise again. If only it did not depend on re-fitting nuclear submarines within a few hundred yards of residential premises. But always nearby is the sea and on the other side the hills of Dartmoor.

Hocus
 
Nice set of pictures and commentary, Skim. The words are as important as the photos in doing an account of community... Nice work. I learned something.
 
My internet connection at home (where all me photos are) is being a big bunch of pants, so I couldn't upload anything. :(
 
The Bogside is a nice commentary as well. On a page unto itself it would be even better. Flickr from this side of the Atlantic is as slow as treacle flowing in the Arctic.
 
Hocus Eye. said:
Skim, I like those pictures. I know Plymouth a bit and you seem to capture the general feeling of of the place. A once proud city has lost most of its major economic resources. It still has it's history though and I think will rise again. If only it did not depend on re-fitting nuclear submarines within a few hundred yards of residential premises. But always nearby is the sea and on the other side the hills of Dartmoor.

Hocus


Thank you.

I don't know where the future lies for Plymouth. There isn't much work down there: opportunity seems to stop at the end of the M5 in Exeter.

But yes, the sea is nearby and wherever you are in the city, you can see the hills beyond.
 
Back
Top Bottom