Seven Day Black & White Photo Challenge — Street Photography: Day 3
My friend Sarah at Art Expedition is hosting a variation on the Seven Day B&W Challenge — this time the image must include people.
The rules are:
• Thank the person who has nominated/tagged you and provide a link to their blog.
• Go out and take pictures of complete strangers for 7 days in a row and post one of them each day of the challenge (you can also post 7 photos in one post if you´re more comfortable with this).
• The photos should be in b/w.
• Nominate as many people as you like
I’m still not quite up to going out shooting street photography, but when I saw Sarah’s latest shot of a group together in space and time, but without engagement, it reminded me of this group I saw at Munich airport a few years ago. Four young women in the same uniform of mini-skirts, black tights, ankle boots (the closest two were wearing identical boots) and black jackets — all utterly focused on their phones.
As always, I’m not a fan of individual nominations, but invite everyone to take part in this if you can fit it in your blogging schedule. And don’t forget to visit Sarah’s blog and see her Berlin street photography.
Good title! And good image. And thanks for the tiny bit of notes or I would have missed some of that – but live the culture feel too – the hair styles – scarves – etc
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Thanks Yvette. 🙂
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If I lived somewhere that there were people to shoot, I’d be shooting them, but we don’t really HAVE street traffic unless you count the seniors at Hannaford on Discount Senior Tuesday.
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🙂 I have to leave the village to shoot people. I’ve been here so long people know me and I’d either get a bollocking for trying to photograph them, or I’d be stuck in one of those long gossipy “catch-ups” that go on forever.
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Excellent title and a phenomenon I see all too often. It’s really quite sad, the lack of actual sustained interaction with other humans and the environment around them.
janet
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I feel the same way. 😦
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Totally agree, Janet
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OH, this is a good one! And a scene I see all too often . . .
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🙂 Sad isn’t it!
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It certainly is!
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Even though I spend too much time on my phone, I worry so much about how alienated we all have become from each other. Great image.
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Thanks Amy. The thing I find saddest is watching couples out together, each giving their attention
only to their phone.
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We made a deal years back that when we are eating, the phones are put away. But even so, I find we spend too much time checking mail and Facebook on our laptops and phones.
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We have the same deal. It’s easy for the Big T and I (who often find ourselves the only couple in cafes actually talking to each other), but a bit more challenging for our son. I know he tries to sneak the odd look at his phone during meals. Grr.
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It’s the young people who really worry me. My two grandsons (8 and 4) are addicted to the games on the iPad and beg their parents for more time to play. They (the parents) are trying to limit their screen time, but it is a tough battle.
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I know that battle. If it’s any comfort, my son is so much less screen-addicted than he used to be. Although I suspect the fact that he earns a loving creating online content may be part of this 😀
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🙂
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This photo shows how invasive the phone has become, sad really. Hope you are on the way to recovery Su
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Thanks Pauline. Feeling much better.
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Good to hear
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Great capture Su! It amazes me how much people look at their phones, what on earth is there on them that they have to check incessantly?
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My sentiments entirely….tell’em to get a life!
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Social media — I get likes, therefore I am.
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Crazy how suddenly one’s self-worth is dependent on strangers ‘liking’ your stuff. Luckily my kids are the generation above these, but your son isn’t. And my granddaughters are always on vloggers – hair and beauty sites. They don’t have their own opinions, just reflect those of others whom they
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Yeah; it’s worrying. My son used to be a complete nightmare, especially in terms of his clothing choices. But these days he’s studying communications at university and has a job managing the website and social media for a skateboarding shop and I’ve noticed that now he’s in the industry, he’s a bit more rational — and cynical. And perhaps just a bit older too. He’s 20, and I’m guessing your granddaughters are a lot younger than that.
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The two I am referring to are younger: 14 and 11, they are very influenced by social media. Odd as neither me or their mother are in the slightest bit interested in fashion or make-up. Perhaps it is because we were the only girls in our families that we were less girly.
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Hopefully they will grow out of it. My mum is one of five girls, but wasn’t particularly “girly” and I grew up with only brothers and mostly boys in the neighbourhood so I’ve always been less into make-up than either make-believe or making things. I remember wandering through the “girl” section of Mothercare in Milton Keynes when heavily pregnant, and feeling overwhelmed by the volume of pink froth, thinking “please let me have a boy.”
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I was so against the stereotyping of sexes that I made a lot of clothes for my first two children. In South Africa you could only buy pink or blue or lemon or white!
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Hehe. I remember my mother going ballistic the first time she saw the boy child in the hot pink babygro I bought. Then I showed her the lavender and lime green ones that were also in the pack. I shouldn’t wind her up, but the kid looked gorgeous in them.
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Phone addiction….
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Perfect title for a stunning photo, Su! The uniformity is a very nice extra touch. I always wonder why people seem to like dressing like everybody else, I rather wear things – and bags😉 – no one else has.
Hope you’re feeling a bit better today. And don’t worry about taking pics from your archives, that’s absolutely fine with me!! Xxxxxxxx
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Thank you 😀 I’m with you — I hate uniforms of all kinds and am always more comfortable creating my own look (albeit “dressed in the dark scruffy”). xxxxx
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I’ve been sewing two summer dresses in the past days to proof this point.😉 The fabric was on sale, beautifully printed light cotton. Will see if I can have a photo made wearing them. 😄xxxxx
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That would be great. xxxxx
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Nice shot Su 🙂
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Thank you 🙏
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It’s almost a testimony to the failure of communications today, Su.
Leslie
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I agree Leslie 🙂
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🙂
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Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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🙂 thanks
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