It’s always nice to have recognition for your work.
Viewbug’s staff, guest and resident judges look at the entries of the contests as well as all the photos uploaded to the community to choose their favorite photos and award them.
At ViewBug, you can win contests as well as receive awards on your photos. It is a great honor to be chosen as your photo is chosen among many others and it is selected based on creativity, originality, composition and overall quality.
There are no specific numbers of awards given, the judges have sole discretion about this.
All around me are familiar faces, Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for the daily races, Going nowhere, going nowhere Their tears are filling up their glasses, No expression, no expression Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow, No tomorrow, no tomorrow
– Mad World (Tears for Fears)
I walk to work 5 days a week all seasons, all weathers. I see the sunrises and the passing of time with the seasons, the buds growing and blooming , the leaves fall and the flowers bloom and die, it’s the most magical journey i take twice a day. From light hitting the pavement and roads, steam coming off the street lights with their beams shining down, fading to nothing, frost on the berries, the texture on the leaves, their veins, the shades of bark on the trees, paint on the bridges, the flakes and shades of old and new, Then there is the sound of the birds chirping, different breeds all at once and cars and whizzing past with the tyres making the squishing sound through puddles and watching the droplets subside when they’ve gone. It’s blessing and a curse.
I don’t envy life as a daily commuter stuck in a steel box for however long the journey is, disconnected from their surroundings. Sure I would get there faster but I would miss SO much happening in the world….. my little world of the 20 minute window walking to work.
The light… it’s always about the light. So quiet, but at 5pm this road is end to end with traffic. Reflections.. mono and colour in the same space. Natural light and street light.
Winter Colour
Frost and Berries go well together
The frosticles are beautiful
One of the park benches frosted over. Sat here gives a beautiful view of the lake whatever the weather.
The winding gear wheel of the local coal mine that once occupied the space where these photographs were taken.Less that 10 minutes walk from the first picture. The lake frozen over giving a superb reflection to the fiery sky.
Light impacts what we see and how we see it. it is the fundamental thing that brings photography to life.
In a lot of photographs it is the lighting that makes or doesn’t make an image work. Knowing how to work with the light will help enormously in capturing photographs that come alive.
The absence of light, darkness, is often overlooked by a lot of photographers because they are too busy concentrating on the light. Shadows play an important role in bringing images to life.
Helping to direct light to a specific point in a composition, shadows can hide and reveal features that you may prefer to be hidden. Shadows also add drama, mood and emotion to the image.
My own style of working with shadows is usually shot during the night or winter mornings when I haven’t the time to photograph on the streets.
Below is a few images of my shadow work.
Building Light and fencesTree BranchesBuilding light and fencesSun Shining through a fenceEvening Sunlight through Window BlindsBuilding Light and fences
