Group: World Photography Day - August 19

that are fruitful suggestions. I'll write my answers to my photo (if i manage to find enough Inspiration that day)

thank you. you can also post them here in this discussion.

Thank you for organising this, Laura. I had fun and although I wasn't really thinking about it at the time, the connection I felt with people doing the same thing at (roughly) the same time was rather uplifting! The actual picture I took was just one of a number of pictures taken in Kalamunda (a small town in the hills above Perth in Western Australia), though it was one of the better ones.

The struggles? Just the same as always: embarrassment at carrying a large DSLR with a big lens and pointing it at things; consciousness of standing out in an urban environment where there are people going about their business; imposter syndrome; the list goes on and I'm sure many others have the same struggles. We just keep on keeping on.

Enjoyed the exercise, both physical and intellectual. Thanks for the opportunity.

So glad you enjoyed this! That uplifts my day as your response is exactly what I was hoping for!!

Is Kalamandu a place you go often? (I was just watching a movie filmed in Australia - I had forgotten you lived there. So many beautiful places you have in your country. I even think your window coverings in your photo are more interesting than what I find here in my town - though I have other things I love about Portland).

Unless I'm thinking about photographing a person in a casual setting (not when I'm doing portrait work), I am just the opposite from you - I feel hidden by the camera I have, no matter the size. Perhaps it is a different vision of how the world sees us. I assume no one cares about measly old me.

Now the imposter syndrome - that speaks to me for sure. Who am I to be pretending to be a photographer? Especially when I'm doing portrait work, or putting up an art show.

I always have some type of camera on me no matter where I go. I used to never be without my Minolta SLR. It didn't have a big lens, but it was big enough for me to feel protected by having it in front of my face.

Thank you for your efforts Laura it was good with a reasonable number of contributions, I think taken on the day worked well ( I did notice one that wasn't) it showed you didn't need an exotic location just a bit of imagination and the things around you.
I very rarely take people I try to avoid them in a shot

I'm glad this worked well for you.

I agree that one doesn't need an exotic locatoin for a good photograph. And you showed that very well with yours!

I'm so curious as to why you avoid putting people in your photographs. Can you say more about that?

I took up the challenge of trying to capture my day and then thought a photo would stand out and become my contribution. On my longer countryside walk I got a chance to capture a very unusual event, a female dragonfly egg laying but I failed to capture a good enough photo. In poor light and rain I was too slow to change camera settings from a previous landscape and then she was gone. I didn’t realise the photo was not focussed well until I got home.
I was disappointed but I am happy with the one I chose from my regular early morning walk.

Thanks for encouraging so many people to be involved.
p.s. It made me realise that everyday is World Photography Day.

What a great take away, that everyday is World Photography Day! I love that.

Thank you for sharing your journey getting your photo (and the place you traveled and did not get the photo). Sometimes our intent can be foiled, but yet we can still succeed in a direction we hadn't thought of before.

(and, you're welcome - i'm just happy people enjoyed it!)

I was certainly drawn to photograph something I love on this World Photography Day. I was crewing a steam locomotive on the Great Central railway on the day so it had to be the view from the cab. I certainly feel connected when all the people we pass wave to us! We wave back of course.

The struggle? That was finding the opportunity to grab a shot in-between feeding the fire and carrying out my footplate duties.

Thank you for organising this Laura. I would have missed the significance of the day otherwise.

Pete

I hadn't realized that you crew on steam locomotives. What a great challenge to keep the rain running smoothly and getting such a wonderful photo!

I love waving at trains of all kinds - nice that you wave back. When I am on our Amtrak trains traveling for pleasure, sometimes we see people wave (often children) - and I never know if they see me, but I always wave back as well.

(and you're welcome. i'm glad it has turned into a positive club event.)

mijn antwoordt is,dat de klimaat verandering me aantrok--dat vooral europa het erover heeft ,en het bij amerika eerst laat (sinds de nieuwe president ) zich aansloot -en dat de ontwikkelingslanden en rusland er niet over praten--daarom bedacht ik mijn foto.
En dat het hoog tijd is--ik denk dat een klimaatverandering erger is dan het covid-19 virus
gewoon te denken aan oogsten die overal mislukken wat hebben we dan nog te eten?
Experts hebben het nu al over dat de mens geen 200 jaar overleeft,bij een klimaatsverandering

ah yes. when one thinks of the world these days, it is hard to avoid thinking about climate change.

as to american joining late, luckily there were at least some states and companies that joined in on their own without the federal government taking action.

Hello Laura I'm sure you are not short of things to do but I think you should use the wonderful and very varied contributions to make a youtube video to help in promoting ipernity

That is an interesting idea! I was thinking of how to honor these photos in a group fashion. I will keep that in mind.

(And yes, I'm quite busy with this - and other - projects. I am working to get to all the photos and respond to everything by the end of next week.)

Thanks for the idea!

Laura
these are fascinating plants you only see out in the bush nothing in the city at all but this group I have and very few people see mine other than family. these plants live on the huge Granite rocks just as this group is doing. they are so small most people would not even notice them at all or have any idea of how they grow. I ran into them as I go to the rocks to take my Milky Way Bows and night photos.

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I was setting up a shot and sat on the ground and as you can see they are all needle sharp. Bonsai's are not indoor plant but !00% out door plants they get the sun, rain and seasons that is the best way to grow them.



yes I do bring them inside to enjoy and decorate the house for a few days but they live out there days outside. these set live only on the bonsai stand in winter the "summer" well away from any water at all but what falls from the clouds.

If you start from the bottom picture in the comment you see what they look like at the end of summer. next photo up the orange state they have just been wet for the first time and there is enough to bring them back to life. that photo is a shot out in the wild on the rock. next photo the group 500mm x 300mm and 200mm high. the whole group live in only about 40mm - 60mm of soil. first rains for the year they get put back on the bonsai stand and get watered like the rest of the plants by sprinklers. the top main photo shows just how much they have grown in this very wet winter.

once the rains stop the plants will be taken off the stand and put back on the airconditioning unit and receive only any incidental rains. every year they have flowered and enjoy the flowers as small as they are for a short time. Part of my collection and part of my life.

hope you get a chance to read this any more if I have missed out please do ask. Steve

I read and replied to your wonderful information in the comments below your photo.

I'll just say here that it is great to learn things like this about you. I'm loving getting to know all the group members better!

Am 19. August - übrigens mein Geburtstag - war ich ungeplant in der Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide. Ungeplant deswegen, weil wir an diesem Tag eigentlich etwas anderes machen wollten und schon am 18. hier einen Besuch geplant hatten. So hatte dieser Besuch etwas mit "im Weg stehen" zu tun.

Am 18. war das die Polizei, die das Gelände rund um die Abtei abgeriegelt hatte. Immer wieder wurden wir an Straßensperrungen durch Handzeichen in andere Richtungen verwiesen, bis wir einfach unverhofft angehalten sind und den netten Hern der Gendarmerie nationale gefragt haben, ob wir überhaupt zur Abtei könnten. Der winkte ab, die Abtei sein geschlossen. Später erfuhren wir, dass ein Waldbrand die Zufahrt verhindert hatte. Nun denn, am 19. August waren wir endlich da - und mit uns weitere Touristen.

An dieserm Tag ist mir etwas bewusst geworden. Es gibt anscheinend immer mehr Menschen, die "alleine" auf dieser Welt sind. Sie gehen ihrer Wege und hinter dem Punkt oder der Linie, die sie gerade überschritten haben, interessiert sie nichts mehr. Übrigens auch ein Phänomen im Strassenverkehr. Nun denn, ich versuchte in der Abtei einen Bereich "menschenleer" zu fotografieren. D.h. nicht, dass nun alle anderen interessierten Menschen den Bereich zu verlassen haben, aber ich hatte bei einigen Zeitgenossen den Verdacht, dass sie besonders lange dort verweilen oder sich überhaupt nicht vorstellen können, warum sich dort eine Gestalt wie ich mit einer Kamera hinstellt und versucht den Bereich zu fotografieren. Nicht nur dass, besonders "schlimm" sind die, die aber auch jeden Winkel mit ihrem Smartphone abfotografieren müssen. Sie kommen schon mit "positonierten" Gerät um die Ecke.

Aber es gibt sie immer noch, die freundlichen Leute, die kurz warten, bis man ein Bild geschossen hat und bei denen man sich herzlich bedankt. Und auch an dieser Stelle, wo es um den Weltfotografietag geht, möchte ich mich bei denen Bedanken, die offen durch die Welt gehen und auch Details bemerken und wertschätzen - auch wenn es nur ein "blöder" Fotograf ist. ;-)

Und um dieses Bild ging es dabei: www.ipernity.com/doc/arlequin_photographie/50955040

I know the feeling of waiting in hope that people might move before some more arrive, especially annoying if they are just playing with their phone, watch people walking around somewhere like a garden or cathedral and notice how many look but don't see

This now makes me think of my desire to photograph people on a street (I love, for example, photos like those by Henri Cartier Bresson) - but have never figured out how to do so without the people being aware. And these days there's the question of privacy.

How do either of you deal with this - or do you avoid photographing people on the street?

Das Persönlichkeitsrecht setzt enge Grenzen, die nach Ländern unterschiedlich sind. Solange die Menschen in meinen Bilder nicht erkennbar sind, ist die Situation unproblematisch. In allen anderen Fällen frage ich vorher.

I think in the UK it's not a problem in a public place, you need to be careful about children, I rarely take photos involving people but for children I would ask or show them the photo and offer to delete it if they were not happy, you can always offer to e-mail it to them.
If you have a camera with a flip out screen use the screen and take the shot from waist level,the lady on my page 22 had no idea the camera was on the table. if I'm in a town or city I have my camera on a wrist strap just in case of a snatch I have had comments from 'spare changers' about an expensive camera.
A point and shoot camera or a smartphone blends in a lot more than a DSLR with a big lens

Ich denke man muss schon bei der Motivauswahl entscheiden, ob man Menschen auf dem Bild haben möchte. In meinem Fall - der Gang in der Abbaye - wollte ich die Stimmung, die dieser Gang mit dem einfallenden Licht einfangen. Da hätten Menschen abgelenkt. Menschen unabhängig von z.B. Portraitfotografie sind Bestandteil eines Bildes, wie es aber auch Blumen, Brücken, Bauwerke etc. sein können. Manchmal macht es die Menge www.ipernity.com/doc/arlequin_photographie/49308582/in/album/1247646, dann ist es wieder ein einzelner Mensch, der die Stimmung total verändern kann www.ipernity.com/doc/arlequin_photographie/50941290. Ich habe das besagte Bild, um das es hier geht noch nicht gesetzt. Wenn ich an dem Tag angekommen bin, werde ich dazu noch etwas erklären. :-)

Darum fotografiere ich Street sehr gerne in den U.S.A.. Es ist übrigens ein Dilemma: Auf der einen Seite haben wir die Persönlickeitsrechte, die in Zeiten wo jeder glaubt, alles in den Social Medias veröffentlichen zu dürfen, notwendig sind, auf der anderen kaufen wir Bildbände mit Stadtleben, -ansichten, Streetfotos etc. aus früheren Zeiten. Uns würden viele Meisterwerke der Fotografie fehlen, wenn es damals schon so restriktive Gesetze gegeben hätte, wie manche Länder sie haben.

www.ipernity.com/doc/arlequin_photographie/50955040

Jetzt endich das betreffende Bild. Obwohl ein "Cloître", also der Kreuzganghof in einem Kloster von einer Galerie (oder in vier Teilen: Nord-, Ost-, Süd- und Westgalerie) umrahmt ist, fand ich nun diesen Teil am schönsten. Das Licht fiel genau richtig durch die Bögen und erhellte die Galerie. Ein sehr schönes Lichtspiel um die Mittagszeit und das dachten vielleicht auch die vielen Besucher, die immer wieder diesen Gang betraten, manchmal mehrmals. Ich habe nichts gege die Leute, die sich interessiert umschauen, sich die Schautafeln durchlesen, sich informieren. Aber die, die sich einfach irgendwo niederlassen und etliche Zeit damit verschwenden, Nachrichten in die Welt zu schicken, die können es auch draußen machen. Sie stören eben nicht nur die, die ein Bild schießen wollen, sondern auch die, die sich vom Raum und der "Stille" einhüllen lassen wollen. Übrigens war dort auch ein "Fotograf" unterwegs, der sich frech mit seinem Stativ vor mich aufbaute.

Für diese Aufnahme habe ich ca. 20 min gebraucht.

Sometimes art is worth waiting for!

Ich hatte den ganzen Tag dran gedacht, aber nicht wirklich Zeit gehabt…darum hab ich mich am Abend beim Konzert auf der Burg bewusst für einen Schnappschuss des Turms dort entschieden. Ein schöner Abend und die Erkenntnis, dass es genau das ist, was ich mit Euch teilen wollte ohne etwas gestellt zu haben:)

I think that is a lovely way to contribute. Photography is a part of most of our lives - integrated into our day. I like that yours came naturally.

Hi Laura,
I really appreciate your animation around this theme and the personal as well as community perspectives it brings.
I will not comment on the rich discussions above, due to lack of time, unfortunately. Here are my only answers to your questions, hoping that they will contribute to this thread which could lead us to next 19th of August...
For my part, preoccupied by too many professional and personal constraints, I did not prepare anything for this photographic day apart from a mobilization from morning to evening to try to contribute actively. So I found myself armed only with my smartphone, alas, scanning my daily route for inspirations. Until the evening when, entering a train station that I only frequent in summer, I stopped in front of a photo display under its historical glass roof, photos about 2m x 2m, promoting an exhibition of ancient art in a famous Parisian museum of Asian arts.
The link between photography and art suddenly seemed obvious to me: before becoming an art in its own, photography was quickly attached to exhibiting, in addition to everyday life and landscapes, what was capable of elevating it to the rank of art itself. By confronting and trying to match what it alone could spread throughout the world: the sharing of works of art from museums in the four corners of the world, and/or architectural wonders and other witnesses of human creativity.
This promotion of an exhibition (which I haven't had the time to visit yet) gave me the opportunity to celebrate this intimate link: beyond World Photography Day, paying tribute to art - both ancestral and modern - seemed to me relevant.

To answer your question, in this station where thousands of workers pass every day, few of them looks up at this exhibition. It must be said that our environment is saturated with advertising images, as you know, and what's more, attention is now turned more towards smartphones (where advertising is not absent!) than towards the surrounding eye-catchers.
I can't vouch for the attractiveness of this display, honestly. In Paris, I assume that the abundance of cultural events makes people receptive and not indifferent to this type of promotion. But the photo/art link is probably not perceived as such, as the impact of photography remains mostly minor, despite the numerous exhibitions that concern it.

Once again, thank you, Laura, for your involvement in this event whose impact seems to me to be major and truly unifying. For my part, I have done my best to show on social networks the involvement of ipernity in this event, but I do not have the possibility to follow or to multiply it. Despite the justified and important - and proven - motivation of our members.