After the break that we took in summer, we return again with a new edition of the Weekly Challenge. Currently on the blog there are 22 challenges that you can always participate in, after the fact, to test your photographic skills. Let's go with this week's challenge...
HOW DOES IT WORK? (REMINDER)
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photograph and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic.
The themes will be varied, from portraits to Macro photography, going through landscapes, black and white photography, or babies.
The topics will be proposed on Saturdays, so that you have the whole weekend to work on them. You will have one week to upload your photograph (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. On Saturday I will update the article with the photo that has captivated me the most and I will propose a new topic, and so…
WEEKLY CHALLENGE 25: SYMMETRY
There is something about symmetrical photographs that draws us to the mind: you stand in a daze looking at the photo, as if your mind refuses to believe that such perfect symmetry could be a product of nature, or as if it were comparing the two symmetrical parts trying to find some minimal difference. Visual symmetry is a rare concept in the sense that you don't come across it very often, which is why symmetrical photos almost always win.
This week we will photograph symmetrical things: it can be a landscape, the typical reflection of a mountain in a lake, it can be a building built in a completely symmetrical way, or your own face repeated in a mirror. Around you there is much more symmetry than you can imagine, you just have to look for it and... "catch" it with your lens.
As usual, to participate in this week's challenge upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the Photographer's Blog: In the description of the photo, please mention the keyword “Symmetry Challenge” followed by a title of your choice.
ALTERNATIVE MEANS TO PARTICIPATE
For those of you who are not from Facebook, I have enabled new social networks to participate.
- Flickr: Accessing the Photographer's Blog Group Wall and uploading the photo directly. Give your photo a caption and be sure to mention “Symmetry Challenge” in it.
- Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #RetoSimetriaBDF
Thanks for participating.
UPDATE
The works uploaded this week to the BdF's Facebook wall, to the group we have on Flickr and to Twitter have been spectacular. This uploading a sample is frankly difficult for me. I enjoy observing the photos with which you participate, seriously, already as a spectator, and then, it is not easy to discriminate some photos from others.
I insist on what I have always been highlighting: these are simple samples of the quality of the work, the creativity of the blog readers, and that it serves as inspiration. If you don't see your photo below that doesn't mean it's not good. Please.
Luciana's is not a photograph but an authentic poem. The photo is the "reflection" of an incomplete symmetry, perhaps that of solitary people. A blurry symmetry, which might have been something at some point in the past, but of which only traces remain, sad, faint, blurry shadows that tremble on the surface of icy water.
In addition to the message that the photo may suggest (subjective and will vary from person to person), I love its composition: look at the color gradient that, very dark at the bottom of the frame, becomes lighter as that we climbed in the photo. Congratulations Luciana.
