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May Photo Comp.....Self portrait

aurora green

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Ok...So this months' theme is the photographic self portrait....

I think there's quite a lot of scope in this...

One of my favourite artists is Cindy Sherman, I love all the film still stuff she did like this and this

or if you want to be more illusive, like Cartier Bresson, you could go for something like this

Or then again something more informal like this or this

Anyways...

The rules, as usual:

* Up to 3 pictures allowed per person.
* Post up the link, not the picture.
* All entries must be in by the last day of May.
* Only use pictures you photographed yourself.
* If you edit the picture then tell us what you did.
* Please don’t change pictures once you have entered them.
* Voting starts on 1st of June and ends on 3rd of June 2006. Anyone can vote, you don't have to have entered. Vote for your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites. 1st choice is worth 3 points, 2nd 2 points and 3rd 1 point -- the entry with the most points wins and chooses the next theme.
* You can use your own web space, photo.net, photobucket.com or pbase.com to host your pictures for free - or any others you choose or see fit to use.

Good luck!!

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http://www.urban75.org/photos/comp/comp014.html

Here's a list up until Feb 2006

Feb 2006, Animals, Mudchute City Farm - Robster970
Jan 2006, Music, Beer... - Iemanja
Dec 2005, Weather, lighthouse - snadge
Nov 2005, All in the detail, drips - elliot
Oct 2005, This sporting life, Lost Ball - mauvais mangue
Sep 2005, Mischief, Rocks - Paul Russell
Aug 2005, At work, High tied - Firky
July 2005, Still life, broken egg - Skim (joint winner)
July 2005, Still life, lobster in a dress - Sovietpop (joint winner)
June 2005, Decay & dereliction, Old Buoy - exosculate
May 2005, Ego + Existence, Me at work - Snadge
Apr 2005, Old age, A Cornish Man - squelch
Mar 2005, Communication, The Spaces Inbetweeen - exosculate
Feb 2005, Hair, ta daaaa! - tribal_princess
Jan 2005, Solitude, Lady in Tiananmen Square - alef
Dec 2004, Fast food, Doppelgangers with sauce - Paul Russell
Nov 2004, Shadow and Silhouette, Five People - Paul Russell
Oct 2004, Self-identity, Princess - Barking_Mad
Sep 2004, Palimpsest, Berlin Wall - iamrothko
Aug 2004, 1 second handheld from the hip, Ghost Bike - Firky
July 2004, Multiples, Flags - madshadow
June 2004, Portraits, 11 going on 17 - Squelch
May 2004, Natural Patterns, Natures glorious texture and colour - exosculate
Apr 2004, The Camera Always Lies, Form is Emptyness... - ill-informed
Mar 2004, Loud - Hocus Eye
Feb 2004, Spin - biologikal (Skim)
Jan 2004, Illness - biologikal (Skim)
Dec 2003, The Essence of Christmas - Littlechef
Nov 2003, Decay - ill-informed
Oct 2003, Colours of Autumn, Heavens Gate - Dubber Dan
Sept 2003, Water - Skydancer
Aug 2003, Simply summer - Dubber Dan
July 2003, Faces - wiskey
June 2003, Reflection, Skydancer - Dubber Dan
May 2003, Abandoned - bigtoecrying
Early 2003, Open/Closed, Bus & Bins - wiskey
Late 2002, Manmade V. Natural structures - wiskey
 
aurora green said:
Portrait isn't the same as self portraits...

To be honest I feel it is too close to 'self identity' and 'portraits', we may get a simlair sort of entrees. It is up to others and yourself though :)
 
I'd tend to agree with frikn00b... The thing is the themes in a very specific photo comp would be different, but on somewhere like here it tends to just wind up with people digging up old stuff rather than actually thinking about the comp.
 
I dunno, I like it. Quite challenging.

The biggest problem is you're expected to do three entries (?)
 
riot sky said:
It is up to others and yourself though :)


Fuck off riotski it is up to Aurora.:)

maybe you and Garf could do a double_entry sorta thang?:D


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Hence the 'yourself' and what has this to do with Garf? Bored and looking for someone to harass or just derailing the threads here as per usual?
 
well I think it's a challenging subject and will be participitating with 3 entries.

great pic aurora green and well done...
 
Keep it Greenie.:cool:

Things are always repeated and I daresay there's loads of new members since 2004 :)

You won your choice am I mistaken?:)

I might have a go :eek:
 
Hence the 'yourself' and what has this to do with Garf? Bored and looking for someone to harass or just derailing the threads here as per usual?

Look lets not have a row about it...
I would say that although the themes are similar, there is a distinction.
If water (Sept 2003) and wet (April 2006) were ok,
and Decay (nov 2003) and Decay & dereliction (june 2005) also was ok, then I think self portrait is different enough to be allowed...

However if people really want me to think of something else then, of course I can...
 
aurora green said:
Look lets not have a row about it...
I would say that although the themes are similar, there is a distinction.
If water (Sept 2003) and wet (April 2006) were ok,
and Decay (nov 2003) and Decay & dereliction (june 2005) also was ok, then I think self portrait is different enough to be allowed...

However if people really want me to think of something else then, of course I can...


keep it... it's different...
 
riot sky said:
Hence the 'yourself' and what has this to do with Garf? Bored and looking for someone to harass or just derailing the threads here as per usual?


NO...you implied that "others" had control over the decision.Hence your use of "others"...care to explain why you did?

NO...I'm not derailing "the threads here as per usual"...if that's your opinion why not start a thread about it in Community rather than bleating here?

NO...I'm not bored or harassing anyone. I am expressing an opinion specific to the content of your post and implying that YOU and Garf always kick off about subjects in the monthly competition you don't like.



How about you bite your lip for a change rather than derailing this Thread. For a change.


Or maybe jus ignore all that and read my previous post as


Riot sky and Garf you are both wrong. This competition has never had Self-Portrait as a Theme.
 
'Self identity' and 'portraits' are not the same as 'self-portrait'. There's overlap, but it's not the same theme. No need to change it Aurora, it's your theme to decide.

I need to get my arse in gear and do an entry this month...
 
I only checked the first page of the April entries
:oops:

Limited internet cafe time is my excuse. Is it to late to vote again? Great winning photo - only just seen it.

Oh, and portraits, self-portarits and self-identity are very different things.
 
boskysquelch said:
NO...you implied that "others" had control over the decision.Hence your use of "others"...care to explain why you did?

Well quite simply it is up to AG and others if they want this theme to go ahead, as is explained in the OP.

NO...I'm not derailing "the threads here as per usual"...if that's your opinion why not start a thread about it in Community rather than bleating here?

That is not my opinion but an observation of your antagonistic nature on here and other threads.

NO...I'm not bored or harassing anyone. I am expressing an opinion specific to the content of your post and implying that YOU and Garf always kick off about subjects in the monthly competition you don't like.

Really? Care to show me where exactly. Yeah I said people should vote if they entered, if possible.

How about you bite your lip for a change rather than derailing this Thread. For a change.

Then why didn't you start a new thread in community instead of bleating on here, msn me, phone me, PM me... you get the idea.

Or maybe jus ignore all that and read my previous post as

Riot sky and Garf you are both wrong. This competition has never had Self-Portrait as a Theme.
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Nope - self portraits hasn't, but ID and portraits have, and therefore like others, I'd of thought there would of been simlair entries. I never once said that it should be changed. If you wish to turn it into something else then that is your prerogative and yours alone :)
 
riot sky said:
Well quite simply it is up to AG and others if they want this theme to go ahead, as is explained in the OP.



That is not my opinion but an observation of your antagonistic nature on here and other threads.



Really? Care to show me where exactly. Yeah I said people should vote if they entered, if possible.



Then why didn't you start a new thread in community instead of bleating on here, msn me, phone me, PM me... you get the idea.

Nope - self portraits hasn't, but ID and portraits have, and therefore like others, I'd of thought there would of been simlair entries. I never once said that it should be changed. If you wish to turn it into something else then that is your prerogative and yours alone :)[/QUOTE]



:p


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boskysquelch said:
NO...you implied that "others" had control over the decision.Hence your use of "others"...care to explain why you did?

NO...I'm not derailing "the threads here as per usual"...if that's your opinion why not start a thread about it in Community rather than bleating here?

NO...I'm not bored or harassing anyone. I am expressing an opinion specific to the content of your post and implying that YOU and Garf always kick off about subjects in the monthly competition you don't like.



How about you bite your lip for a change rather than derailing this Thread. For a change.


Or maybe jus ignore all that and read my previous post as


Riot sky and Garf you are both wrong. This competition has never had Self-Portrait as a Theme.


would you please leave me out of this lovers tiff thanks
 
i love self portraits as a theme.
i've been experimenting with this quite a bit over the years
and will be entering a pic or two a bit later :)
 
I like the theme and here's my first entry:

When I was 18...

took that one with a 35mm camera (can't remember which one) and then scanned it a couple of months ago. I had to do a bit of scratch removing too.
 
Iemanja said:
I like the theme and here's my first entry:

When I was 18...

took that one with a 35mm camera (can't remember which one) and then scanned it a couple of months ago.


Wouldn't have recognised you... you look quite different :)
 
Skim said:
Wouldn't have recognised you... you look quite different :)

My feet haven't changed much though! I think I was 21 when I took this one below... ;)

The sea at my feet (I think I might have entered a similar one, of my feet, on the self-identity one)
 
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