This week’s photo challenge is guest hosted by This week’s photo challenge is guest hosted by Terence S. Jones of A Guy With a Camera. Here, I’m presenting two views of the same city, a ‘colorless urban”, and a ‘colorful’ one, seen below. Urban settings can be whatever we want them to be – sad and colorless, or lively, colorful, pleasant!
This week’s inspiration is “urban“. The idea behind urban photography is to photograph your city and the streets where you grew up as they are. Unlike the photoshopped pictures to which we are accustomed nowadays, urban photography presents a more direct, unaltered view of life. It is about documenting urban living space and how people adapt their environment to certain needs and vice versa. Urban photography shots provide cultural, social, economical, and ecological context all at once, and can capture social tension. Think of urban photography as a complement to street photography—it provides the context in which street photography unfolds. Thanks for the inspiration! ♥
Different views on “urban”:
Urban « e-Shibin Urban « Fenland Photos Urban « Flickr Comments Urban | Chittle Chattle Urban | Chittle Chattle Le città e il gioco. 2. | Empire of Lights Photos by the Dog of a Depressed Woman « Broken Light: A Photography Collective URBAN « beyond toxicity Urban | Just Snaps Urban – Downtown Oak Hill, Alabama | Humbled Pie Urban – Joy and Woe Urbanizando el tiempo « La Mandraka Urban « Pictures for Froghopper Urban « So where’s the snow? Urban Energy « the thirdeyeworld Urban | Wind Against Current My Urban Garden | Cardinal Guzman Urban « britten Urban | Figments of a DuTchess Urbaunite « bukaningrat ™ Urban « A year in the Life Urban « MaanKind Urbane | Canoe Communications wurban « A Meditative Journey with Saldage Urban « Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus Urban | Four Deer Oak
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Love both the ominous and the cheerful 🙂
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Thank you very much, Madhu… Beautifully contrasting! 😮
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Gorgeous Colours!!
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Thank you! 😮
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Thanks for visiting and liking my Urban Weekly Photo Challenge submission.
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My pleasure! 😮
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The colors in that 2nd shot are gorgeous! 😉
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Thank you so much! 😮
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Love the contrast between the two images — thanks for the pingback!
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You’re more than welcome, Jeni! 😮
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the second: soooo colorful!
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Thanks, Frizztext!!!! 😮
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Definitely my favorite is the colorful urban. So vibrant!
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Thank you so much, Tmso! 😮
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Nice series of photos..
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Thanks, Efratadenny! 😮
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what a nice contrast and different interpretation of the theme! 🙂
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Thank you very much, Docgelo!
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What a great posts, with such an interesting contrast in material, and yet both perfect for the theme!
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Thank you, Naomi! South Africa is definitely a land of contrasts in beauty! 😮 Thanks for stopping by and checking the post out!
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Great shots! So moody in both directions (could work well on our site too 🙂 ). Love the barbed wire. Well done.
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Thank you very much… even barbed wire has its hidden beauty (?) Sad… and yet, intriguing…. Thank you very much for stopping by!
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Thanks for the pingback. I really enjoy both these photos. The razor wire one is kind of urbanly intimidating and clearly states “fuck off”, while the second one is more inviting with all it’s vivid colors.
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Thank you, Cardinal Guzman! The barbed wire may be found around the (what used to be) the Reuben Island Prison, in Cape Town (as for backstory, where Nelson Mandela and others were kept for years…). My goal was exactly that: the idea of welcoming, and the idea of “no permission”… 😮
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I’ve been there too, but luckily only as a tourist!
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So did we!!!! 😮
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interesting offering of opposites . . . thanks for taking the time to view my urban photo challenge.
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You’re more than welcome, Brenda! Thanks for stopping by, as well! 😮
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Incredible contrasts and both great photos!
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Thanks, Gilly! 😮
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cool contrast of urban pics! nice take on the theme!
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Thank you very much, Iñigo!
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Now I’m confused! See Maankind’s post:
http://maankind.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/weekly-photo-challenge-urban/
Same place, different colours! 🙂
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I know, I know… Cape Town (RSA) has several streets like that… luckily, his photo has people on it, so, we’re still good… 😮 and the other one, also from Cape Town, but it’s from Reuben Island, where the prison was… I guess everybody falls in love with Cape Town (or, originally, Cidade do Cabo, from the Portuguese!)… What are the odds of two people picking the same city/country to portrait for the weekly photo challenge!!! Fantastic, and thanks for pointing the post out… loved it! 😮
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