Challenge! Challenge! Cameraderie Challenge #73: What I love about the city / town / village I call home : CLOSED

[Irene McC]

Start Date

Sep 3, 2024

End Date

Sep 30, 2024

Show us something that's specific to your spot on this planet - maybe your 'happy place' or something that has meaning to you (try to steer clear of obvious landmarks)

The standard rules apply:

As usual, this Challenge will consider originality, technical merit and artistic vision.
No change to the tried and trusted rules, which are as follows:

1. Either take pictures that match the nominated theme or select one from your portfolio. You must be the photographer that created the image in order to enter it.
2. Only one entry per challenge, please. If you want to withdraw an entry and replace it with another, that is OK, but you must make it clear in the post containing your
replacement picture that this is what you've done. You can add or change the title and add to the edit line to let everyone know.
3. The decision of the curator at the end of the challenge is final - don't give him/her a hard time about it: this is just a friendly photo challenge, after all!
4. The winner will assume the responsibility of curator for the next Challenge, and as soon as possible post a message in a new thread in the Cameraderie Photo Challenges forum,
with details of the new theme. Don't forget - the opening message must include a copy of these instructions, which also double as the rules.
5. The curator cannot enter in his / her / their own challenge.

This challenge will open today : September 03, 2024 and will run until September 30th, 2024 - midnight UTC+2

 

[griffljg]

Brisbane's Bridges

Brisbane, my home, is often called "The River City". Stretching along the Brisbane River, it is fairly predictable that it would have lots of bridges over the river. As a now-retired civil engineer, these bridges have always held a bit of a fascination for me. This is a photo which I took of the Brisbane CBD in June 2019 from an aircraft on my way to Cairns. In it, if you look carefully, you'll see eight of Brisbane's bridges. Two more have been added to that view since I took that photo...... And I can think of at least five more bridges outside the photo.

The bridges which you can see are, from downstream (right) to upstream (left): Story Bridge, Captain Cook Bridge, Goodwill Bridge, Victoria Bridge, Kurilpa Bridge, William Jolly Bridge, Merivale Bridge and Go Between Bridge.

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[OCBeyer]

Main Street in the snow. Ellicott City, Maryland, USA

Olympus E-1, 14-54

 

[lightcapture]

Main Street in the snow. Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
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Olympus E-1, 14-54

Stellar composition and processing.

 

[OCBeyer]

Stellar composition and processing.

Thank you

 

[drd1135]

Main Street in the snow. Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
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Olympus E-1, 14-54

That’s a lovely photo. I’m originally from a bit south of Boston, and I can almost feel what it would be like to stand on that street.

 

[MiguelATF]

The small town where I have lived for several decades, Talent, Oregon, was partially destroyed by a wildfire several years ago - as was the neighboring small town of Phoenix, Oregon. Locals and inhabitants have continued to 'come together' to support one another in their ongoing attempts, not merely to rebuild the lost houses and buildings, but on a more basic, human level... simply to survive. This painting was made by a local artist who lived in the neighboring town of Phoenix, and was titled, appropriately, "Phoenix Rising"; for many months it was exhibited in the center of our small 'downtown'. I took this Instax photo at the time with my Automat Lomo Instant camera; in spite of its technical 'crudeness', it captures some of the town's spirit - of hope, for a better future - in a different way than other photos I took with my more sophisticated cameras.

 

[Frank Discussion]

I used to cut through this alley on the way to school from 1967-1974. This is a recent image.

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[donlaw]

This is Texas Children’s Hospital which has been major client of mine for decades. It is part of the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world with 40+ institutions many which are academic providing teaching and research that saves countless lives. My wife has worked there as a nurse and now my daughter does the same. My son’s life was saved there by emergency surgery. Working for many of these institutions has keep me in this corner of the world, and makes me proud to have contributed in part to its growth and development.

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[e-light]

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hometown Bochum Germany

contrast of nonconformism, as a characteristic eccentric skyscraper

 

[Bozzie]

The Thames by Bishops Park West London.
Skimming stones after school caked in mud.

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[Irene McC]

Skimming stones

Ah, a man after my son's heart. Umm, no, that sounds awkward, doesn't it!
But I mean, my son LOVES skimming stones

 

[Bozzie]

Ah, a man after my son's heart. Umm, no, that sounds awkward, doesn't it!
But I mean, my son LOVES skimming stones

Hi and yes, I still skim stones and I'm 66, so do my grown up sons , and I still enjoy going back to Bishops park once a year, as I moved out of London many years ago , it's a different animal nowadays, but have fond memories of this place and London in general from the 60s and 70s.

 

[5354photos]

Found one in this archive. I don't know which one is more special to Hong Kong. The out stretched sign or the kung fu worker.
Taken by D80.

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[Piano]

The Humber Bridge linking East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Once the longest single span suspension bridge in the world when it opened in 1981.

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[Irene McC]

A few hours left - get your pictures uploaded!

 

[Irene McC]

@OCBeyer - thank you for contributing another image; however according to the rules, it's just one entry per person. You can decide which one to 'enter'

 

[OCBeyer]

@OCBeyer - thank you for contributing another image; however according to the rules, it's just one entry per person. You can decide which one to 'enter'

Oops.

 

[Irene McC]

Oops.

I'm sorry about that! I did like both your images

 

[Irene McC]

This challenge is now closed and there are some very beautiful images and super contributions here!
I'll be scratching my head for a while before announcing winners. Thank you all for participating