Tag: Weekly Photo Challenge

52 Week Smartphone Challenge : Week 28 : Your Culture

Photographers participating in the challenge come from nearly every country and culture. Tell us the story of your culture.

I was born in the British West Indies, but I have lived 34 of my 54 years of life in the United States. I have lived on the islands of St. Vincent, Bequia, Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua and Long Island (Queens County, NY). I have lived in New York City (Borough of Queens), Atlanta (Georgia), Ann Arbor (Michigan), and Central New Jersey (Plainsboro, Franklin Park, Montgomery Township). Of my 34 years in the USA, I have lived in Montgomery Township the longest. Each of those places has had an impact on me, and none are like each other.

But additionally, I married a Brahmin Hindu woman from Gujarat, India and I have embraced the richness of that culture as well. We were married in a Hindu temple and our children, Shaan and Kiran, have traditional Indian first names.

So which culture should I choose to represent via photography? My British West Indies heritage? My adopted American or East Coast or Central New Jersey culture? Or the selected Asian culture? Each culture is layered one on top the other and over time created the person writing this blog.

How do I fit that all into one photograph?

For this post, I cheated. I took several iPhone 11 Pro photographers that I captured over the year, photographs that represent various cultural elements imported them as layers in Adobe Photoshop and used the Auto-Blend feature and stacked the images. I used pictures of pizza, local micro-breweries, Indian food, hikes in the woods, my wife, etc.

The result is an indefinable mess, just like me.

It seems that theOnlyD800intheHameau was similarly challenged but did find a way to choose.

Submitted as part of my 52 Week Smartphone Challenge

52 Week Smartphone Challenge : Week 27 : Gratitude

What are you grateful for? Show us.

TheOnlyD800intheHameau is grateful for these eyes.

I am grateful that I found a photography project that allows me to contribute to a community project.

Submitted as part of my 52 Week Smartphone Challenge

52 Week Smartphone Challenge : Week 26 : Geometry

We live in a world surrounded by geometry. Use Geometry in your photo this week.

I admit that the 52 Week Smartphone Challenge was lost from my schedule over the last several weeks. I think I was suffering from creative burn-out. Between my daily Isolation Photography Projet, daily iPhone Project, this weekly project, I believe I have over-extended myself. Then in the last few weeks, I added the Barns, Bridges and Buildings project. It was all too much, and something had to give.

Yesterday I visited the WordPress Reader page for the project, saw that theonlyd800inthehameau was continuing to post. I felt like such a failure.

So in the next few posts, I will be back posting any images that may fit the theme; as many as I can to salvage my involvement in my project.

Check out theonlyd800inthehameau's entry.

The iPhone 11 Pro has a very useable panorama mode that is easy to use and produces excellent results; most of the time. This image was captured in the late evening in my sister-in-law's backyard. It's a complete failure in regards to geometry. The iPhone 11 Pro has a night vision mode that works fairly well. However, the night vision mode is not available when shooting panoramas. Distortion and issues with the panoramic stitching algorithm also contributed to making this a poor image.

Submitted as part of my 52 Week Smartphone Challenge