November 2020 challenge: Photographers

[wiskerke]

Sybille, thank you for a very successful challenge! And thanks for voting everybody, not just for my friendly orange guy 😁

 

For the new challenge let's pick a theme that we all know something about:

- photographers.

 

Some simple rules: there has to be a person and there has to be at least one camera. Preferably somebody who is using his/her camera. Groups of photographers/people using cameras are fine. People taking selfies are fine even people using their phones as a camera are fine.

 

It's pretty popular with contributors:

photographers - 138,101
photographer - 745,207
photographing - 192,526
taking a picture - 49,663
taking a photo - 224,809
selfie - 247,698
photography - 11,382,859

- all results here on Alamy.

Maybe a little less so with clients, but there's still quite a considerable demand. (AoA)

 

The rest of the rules are as usual:

3 images per person max; they must be on Alamy; this challenge closes on Monday November 30 at midnight GMT.

The poll will be up at some point the next day.
Have fun!

 

wim

[gvallee]

Congratulations Wim, well deserved.

And thank you for the new theme because you know what? I have a few images keyworded as you said 'taking pictures', 'taking a photograph' but not tagged 'Photographer'!!

Adding it as we speak in AIM. Also, I don't think I'll tag someone taking a selfie as 'photographer'.

 

Photographer at the Lunette at sunset, Mungo National Park, New South Wales, Australia

 

Budding photographer

 

Tourists at Great Barrier Reef

[Betty LaRue]

Congrats, Wim! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
 

 

 

St. Croix sunset

 

chimping & laughing

 

Capturing the snowfall. You can only see the flip-out screen behind the gloves.

Edited November 8, 2020 by Betty LaRue

[Michael Ventura]

Congrats Wim, great winning photo!

 

Tough challenge, didn't have a lot but fun looking for ones that might work!

 

1) Winter in Chicago (brrr), woman taking a photo of a public art piece.

 

 

2) Photographer taking in the beauty of the Grand Canyon from the North Rim

 

 

3) In the bowels of the Temple of Dendara, Egypt a photographer records ancient hieroglyphics..."photos" of sorts of that time.

 

Edited November 8, 2020 by Michael Ventura

[John Mitchell]

Congratulations on your orange Dutchman, Wim. Snappy November topic. Here are my three offerings:

 

Man photographing his wife at a Japanese cultural festival in Vancouver

 

 

 

Tourist taking a photo in the Cenote Zaci, Yucatán, Mexico

 

 

 

Woman photographing cherry blossoms, Vancouver

 

 

 

 

 

[Colin Woods]

Three from me

 

 

Photographer silhouetted at sunset

 

 

 

Photographer watching the Riviere St Francois raging after torrential autumn rain

 

 

 

 

Photographer taking pictures of jellyfish in Toronto aguarium

Edited November 8, 2020 by Colin Woods

[MizBrown]

I had some fun with some of these:

 

 

Scottish heritage festival in Virginia.  This was one of the two pro photographers who were the official photographers for the day.  

 

 

 

Two flash photo of a burning "old man of the past year" on New Year's -- mine and hers on the second floor balcony.   New Years Eve to New Year's early day.

 

 

Photographer with camera on a tripod taking pictures of a woman.   Off Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA.

[VbFolly]

Congratulations on your win, Wim. It was a great image.

Here's 3 from me.

1) Young man photographing butterfly on a forest track with a camera and a phone (2C4CXK9)

 

 

2) Taking a family photo at Box Hill viewpoint (2CD5JHY)

 

 

3) Woman photographing blue delphiniums (TYPFXH)

 

 

[Allan Bell]

Well done with your win wim.

 

Is it purely stills photographers or can video photographers be included in the comp?

 

Allan

 

Edited November 8, 2020 by Allan Bell

[John Morrison]

Overlooking Grasmere - 'Wordsworth country' - in the English Lake District...

 

Edited November 18, 2020 by John Morrison

[Bella]

This is a fun subject! I didn't think I would have three but I do 

 

 

This one is my granddaughter

 

Is it okay to add a third later and if so do I just edit this post and add it here?

 

 

[Allan Bell]

You could do that. Others seem to just add them in later. Probabley makes it easier for wim if you add it into your existing post.

 

Allan

 

[NYCat]

9 hours ago, Michael Ventura said:

 

 

 

 

3) In the bowels of the Temple of Dendara, Egypt a photographer records ancient hieroglyphics..."photos" of sorts of that time.

 

 

Wishing he had a tripod!

 

Paulette

[Michael Ventura]

19 minutes ago, NYCat said:

Wishing he had a tripod!

 

I was with a group of journalists and while we were given better access to take photos, no flash or tripods were allowed.  The was the rule throughout many of the antiquities of Egypt. So a lot of high ISO photos!

[Bella]

37 minutes ago, Allan Bell said:

You could do that. Others seem to just add them in later. Probabley makes it easier for wim if you add it into your existing post.

 

Allan

 

Thanks Allan, I will 😊

[Regis]

Congratulations on the win, Wim.

 

Here come my three:

 

Tourists taking photographs of manhole cover in Japan:

 

Tourist taking photos of friends and deers in Nara, Japan:

 

 

And young people taking selfie photographs with bubble tea in Tokyo, Japan:

 

 

Three photographs representing people taking photographs with a mobile phone...

Something that I would never have imagined when I started to take some photographs myself.

It is really amazing to see the change in the industry...

 

Good luck everybody.

 

[spacecadet]

1 hour ago, NYCat said:

 

Wishing he had a tripod!

 

Paulette

Wishing he wasn't rubbing up against the carvings 😮

[Michael Ventura]

3 minutes ago, spacecadet said:

Wishing he wasn't rubbing up against the carvings 😮

 

True, I was amazed how poorly protected the ancient hieroglyphics, on the walls, were.  People were putting their hands all over them.  

[spacecadet]

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                            

 

 

 

 

This one is even a seller!

 

Edited November 8, 2020 by spacecadet

[losdemas]

Congrats on your win, Wim (had to be careful typing that!).

Great choice of subject and some really good submissions already!  Here are mine:

 

1. Teenage girl takes photo with flash using mobile phone (genuine flash!)

 

2. Press and other media professionals send stories, images, and video direct to news outlets after a high-profile event

 

3. Caucasian woman surrounded by Chinese tourists takes selfie with mobile phone in front of the Little Mermaid statue, Copenhagen

 

Good luck, everybody!

Edited November 8, 2020 by losdemas

[NYCat]

 

Vendor and photographer in New Delhi, India

 

 

 

Polar Bear curious about photographers in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

 

 

 

Photographers and Maasai Women in Kenya, East Africa

 

 

Paulette

[Bryan]

Great topic should appeal to most of us !

 

1)  Man perched on Arthur's Seat - Edinburgh

 

 

2) Man photographing tulips Brooklyn Botanic Garden

 

 

3) Man taking a photograph of Roker lighthouse through a monolithic granite structure aligned with the stars of the solar system

 

 

 

Edited November 8, 2020 by Bryan

[Allan Bell]

2 hours ago, NYCat said:

 

 

 

 

Paulette

 

Meals on wheels.😃

 

Allan

 

[wiskerke]

5 hours ago, Allan Bell said:

Well done with your win wim.

 

Is it purely stills photographers or can video photographers be included in the comp?

 

Allan

 

 

I thought it was the other way around nowadays: all those videographers look like photographers. But why not?

Now would they make it to the last 8?

Let me share a couple of personal bonus points and possible wildcards:

Most photographers in one image;

Humour/humor: something funny;

A photographer doing something stupid that only we, other photographers, recognize;

A photographer doing something really clever.

But good images will always trump  uhh win over bad ones.

 

wim

 

[Allan Bell]

3 minutes ago, wiskerke said:

 

I thought it was the other way around nowadays: all those videographers look like photographers. But why not?

Now would they make it to the last 8?

Let me share a couple of personal bonus points and possible wildcards:

Most photographers in one image;

Humour/humor: something funny;

A photographer doing something stupid that only we, other photographers, recognize;

A photographer doing something really clever.

But good images will always trump  uhh win over bad ones.

 

wim

 

 

Thanks wim. Useful tips too.

 

Allan