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March 2018 Challenge: Without leaving the house (or garden).


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The March 2018 Challenge:

 

A photo that was taken without leaving your house or garden.

 

No studio images: that would be cheating. ( I have one too.)

However an improvised one with a desk lamp on the kitchen table, or near a window is fine.

And while you're at it, why not include an image of the set-up?

Gardens are fine too, but just a portrait of a nice flower from one of you garden and flower specialists can also feel like cheating. Just like the in-house studio.

 

For people who cannot think of photographing anything inside their house:  you'll be restricted to a single room.

Not an original idea: it's from  ZAMM.

-  it works btw.

 

1-3 images each as usual.
This challenge will end on Saturday March 31 at midnight, 24:00 London time.
The winner will start the new topic.

 

Have fun!

 

wim

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I thought Wim would come up with something to get us to think

 

 

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Moonrise sequence shot from my patio when we lived in Maria. Lounging in a comfy chair - camera remote in one hand, beer in the other. Photography the fun way. 

 

 

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Tired mum reading to the kids.

 

 

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My boy, raspberries on fingers. 

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View from front porch with ice covering all the branches on the maple trees down my driveway.

 

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Sister and brother-in-law having morning coffee watching the cows

 

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Fog at 6:30 in the morning as I was about to leave for a dog show

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Jill

 

 

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Nice one Wim!

 

Me clearing snow last week (tripodic employment)

 

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Her indoors pricking out seedlings

 

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Frog like creatures doing what they do in our garden pond (taken using ancient screw fit Takumar lens)

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Congratulations on your win.  Great idea, but I have too many to choose from!  That either makes me a lazy or opportunist photographer :)

 

From the window

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And, again

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Christmas time

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Man on the street, having lunch in the sun, the restaurant is across the street and was in shade, so he carried over the table and chairs to the other side of the street.

Taken from 3rd floor balcony of my Frankfurt worktime flat. 

I really regret I only had my 80mm on FF at the moment and did not take the 120-300 tele with me that week. 

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Dolls looking at a broken doll in vintage setting with a Louis XV clock in background. 

Scene in my living room in Cologne. 

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 And the mandatory animal in the garden. I cut those branches two years ago and was waiting to take this picture - obviously this took some time for a squirrel to give me a nice pose. 

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1 hour ago, hdh said:

 

Dolls looking at a broken doll in vintage setting with a Louis XV clock in background. 

Scene in my my living room in Cologne. 

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Spooky and slightly disturbing. Good image though and I like the background furnishings.

 

Allan

 

 

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Well done on your win Wim with a great image.  Three terrible images from me below. By terrible I mean cheesy.

 

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Teddies resting after some gardening. Yes the cat is always looking out through the window.

 

 

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Getting set up for a cup of tea in the garden with a little light reading.

 

 

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Teds looking out of bedroom window.

 

Allan

 

 

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11 hours ago, Colin Woods said:

I thought Wim would come up with something to get us to think

 

No thinking required! (Does it really say that on the tin?)

What a bummer that must have been. 

;-))

There is some nice reading stuff in that 1st link though.

 

Skip Thinking Photography.

However Right Brain/Left Brain Photography is still worth reading.

 

wim

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1) Putting my kids to work to illustrate measuring time (well time has passed since I shot this, they are both in college now!)

 

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2) Water droplets on a web my grass

 

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3) Another close-up shot...testing a new macro lens.  This of an old pruning saw in my yard.

 

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The last subject, I had nothing worth submitting. This time around, the problem is choosing just 3. Anyway...

 

The view down the street from the end of my driveway (put it on Favourite uploaded images thread a couple of days ago... I like it so....):

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A picture of my gas hob that I took when I was bored one night which has sold surprisingly well:

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I'm not very good at getting around to cutting my back lawn (should spend more time cutting it rather than photographing it):

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2 hours ago, Allan Bell said:

Spooky and slightly disturbing. Good image though and I like the background furnishings.

 

Allan

Interesting, I did not feel it being spooky or disturbing but can see that it may trigger it, as no living persons involved. 

Thank you!

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Congrats Wim - great photo! Here's my three!

 

1. (Someone elses) cat in our garden (someone hadn't mown the lawn recently.....)

 

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2. House decorators at work:

 

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3. Young woman multitasking with phone and TV remote:

 

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Kumar (the Doc one)

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4 hours ago, GS-Images said:

Allan, I don't see any cheese in those, so they don't look cheesy to me.

 

I hope the teddies have signed model releases?

 

Yup! Teddies have signed releases for me in perpetuity. No I do not know where that is either.

 

Allan

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Doc said:

Congrats Wim - great photo! Here's my three!

 

1. (Someone elses) cat in our garden (someone hadn't mown the lawn recently.....)

 

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2. House decorators at work:

 

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Kumar (the Doc one)

 

 

Get out there and mow that darned lawn. Serves you right for going away so often.

 

Surely you are not past a bit of house painting yet?

 

Becoming lazy in your old age.

 

Allan

 

 

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#3 from me. I bought the calculator at about the same time ZAMM was published (1974). This image licensed last year.

 

Lighting setup was my clunky, long-necked IKEA desk lamp, which is the same vintage. Perhaps I should photograph it too.

 

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4 hours ago, Matt Ashmore said:

The last subject,<snip> photographing it):

 

 

Matt, sorry to you and all for posting this here, but since Alamy chose in their wisdom to remove the private communication channels within the forum, I figured that I might be able to get your attention by chasing up your most recent post.

 

You might want to adjust your image title here.  I think you may have forgotten to de-select the image while adjusting others? ;)

 

EDIT:  ...and while nosing around you port (couldn't help myself!) you might want to take a look at the (ironic) spelling error in your title here. :o:)

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Bit cheeky to be commenting on this thread without actually contributing (yet), but it's an eye-opener for someone who has struggled with developing the 'stock mindset', if you know what I mean. It took me the best part of nine years to submit 467 images here, but filled with a New Year resolve to widen my scope, I've got to nearly 700 in little over two months. Now I realise I can increase my submission total in my underpants. (As long as I avoid reflective surfaces.) Very illuminating!

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