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How about Song titles in other words your photo should be a name of a song,any song from any age.

Nostalgia or history. Anything old you might have lying around the house or something you might have shot in a museum. No people. The example is from pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/camera-luggage-polaroid-photos-514992/

Spices from the pantry. There are many colorful spices which are used in cooking and they can be used in creative ways for photo art, not just for cooking. Try to create something which would make a lovely kitchen poster if you blew it up. An example from pixabay... https://pixabay.com/photos/spices-spoons-salt-pepper-1914130/.

The colour BLUE....has to be the main focal point.

ICM...intentional camera movement. Create a Monet, an abstract using intentional camera movement.

EYES say it all.

In my Kitchen....no food allowed.

In my bedroom.....monochrome only.

Emotions on Humans only.

My Favourite Pet Portrait

Nature's Minimalism

The Force of Nature

Night Photography

Back Lit

Creepy Crawlies....anything goes, insects, moths, spiders, if it crawls, if it creeps you out... show us.

Trees.

Silhouettes

Broken, or Busted Open....broken pieces of ceramics, a flower pod that has ruptured. Come in close and show us the beauty.

Lines that Lead us to the focal point. They can be rail lines that lead us to a colourful tunnel of autumn leaves or lines left by a boat passing.

An Ant's Point of View. Come down low, very very low and shoot something an ant would see.

CityScape in monochrome only.

While in Lockdown. Take photos or your surroundings, can be close up, macro, panoramic...

Wear a Mask. It's all about the new "normal" mask in this contest refers to COVID.

Drinks or Desserts in monochrome.

F O O D.....YUM.

Triple It. Any photo that has a repeat of 3 objects....3 empty swings....3 forks on your table....3 children playing....3 smoke stacks....etc

Must have the number 21 in the photo or number 56 but not together, it is either....or....not both.

A Collage of a minimum of 6 images....cars, faces, food anything that you can find to captivate us.

A Photo Software Filter you love and use. Show us and give up your secrets to us. Please name the filter and how you applied it to the image. Show us the before and after side by side.

Head Wear. From traditional headdresses to funky anything goes.

Rural Life. From farm animals, to farmers in their fields, to fields of growing crops. Show us rural life from your neck of the woods.

Urban Life. Show us the hustle and bustle of urban living using a slow shutter speed to blur the photo.

From the Knees Down. Photography from the knee or below only.

Nature's 5 Basic Elements. It can be fire, earth, water, air and space.

Aerobic Workouts or Quiet Yoga

People Eating. Can be one person or many.

Street Photography in Selective Colour. It has to be in monochrome but you can pop out one or more items to bring back the colour.

Nature Selective Colour. It has to be in monochrome but pick out an item that is colourful....a butterfly, a ladybug, a single bud.

Reflections in a Puddle.

Colours are Everywhere. Your most colourful shot.

Abstracts. Tell us what your abstract is....a close up of a tree trunk, the sun on the river.

Shadows Make It. Sometimes the shadows create the photo, show us.

Pattern Photography. A pattern that intrigues you, perhaps on a leaf, the balconies on a building, the detail of wood.

Photograph the Photographer. Yes, it can be photos of people taking selfies too.

Mobile Phone Photography. Images taken ONLY with your phone.

Break the Rules of Photography. You know what the rules say, break them and show us why a broken rule works to benefit the photo. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist” is a quote attributed to Pablo Picasso.

The Human Body. Using shadow and light show us the beauty of the human body. Let the image tell the human story.

Footwear. The footwear can be on the person or not.

Sun Flares. See them through the leaves, or as the sun dips below a mountain...they are everywhere.

People with Animals. This can be a photo of you with your pet, a farmer with his pigs or a child with their budgie.

Walls. It can be a mural on a wall or a partially abandoned wall, ivy growing on a wall. Show us the beauty of your wall.

The way we were....It is a contest about sharing old photos of ourselves when we were a lot younger from more than 20 years ago. It doesn't need to be a photo taken by us, anyone could have taken it. There would be no constructive critique about improving the shots, just a fun contest which helps members get to know one another better and hopefully promotes more interaction by guessing who the child or young person might be.

Abandoned. Anything at all that has that feel of abandoned. It can be an old car, train, buildings but no people or animals allowed in the photo.

Your favourite technique. When you do your post processing do you apply a special technique to make your images pop ex. adding a pencil filter atop your photo, extracting details, desaturate. Tell us why you favour this technique.

BLEND MODES....using your blend modes show us your creative side but please share which blend modes you used example: difference, soft, hard light, pin light etc. Share your process with us so we can learn.

Patterns
The word ‘pattern’ is derived from the French word ‘patron’, which describes recurring elements. The repetition of shapes, lines, and textures will often form the basis of your shot.

Photo contest: LIGHT AND SHADOW(S)
Rules: every photographer knows that photography is LIGHT.
And who says "LIGHT" says "SHADOW(S)".
---> Submit photos which you took yourself (!) because the PLAY of light/shadow had caught your attention!: your photo was then very attractive and beautiful! 😍