Thread: The 9th Salon Challenge - His/her point of view WINNER REVEALED

I've been seeing marvelous images submitted on this forum for a while now. I even have a sense of the sensibilities you guys bring on board while making your images. Given that a number of you are regulars on the forum, and are (mostly) aware of each other's style/sensibilities, my challenge for this contest is simply this-

"His/her point of view"

Make an image in the style/sensibility/fashion/content/treatment of a fellow photographer from SC. Do feel free to mention the name of the user who inspired you OR you could choose not to include the name and have us run around guessing who it is. Its entirely up to you. At the end of the contest, you would be required to share this info however, just in case no one guesses the name of your 'influence'.

Because this potentially can be a barrel-full of fun, I shall be breaking all norms and taboos and entering a photograph as well. Needless to say it will not be in the running as a contender of course.

New users, please do browse around and pick up a picture/style from any gallery that catches your fancy and make a submission as well.

I hope everyone participates in this rather mad challenge and has loads of fun!

The normal rules apply:

1. Either take a picture that matches the nominated theme or select one from your portfolio. You must be the photographer that created the picture in order to enter it.

2. There are several ways to add your photos to the current salon thread: 1. upload your entry to your SC user gallery (all entries must be present in an SC gallery), which you automatically get if you are registered on the SC forum, so if you aren`t registered you will need to if you would like to join the fun. (Don't know about the "gallery" yet? Then read this: SC Gallery FAQ please read it carefully if you are new to using the site's software.) 2. embed from Flickr or another similar web hosting photo site and 3. use the attachment method. All three are explained here:How to post images in forum threads

3. Only one entry per salon, 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.

4. 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!

5. The person who submitted the chosen picture will assume the responsibility of curator for the next Salon Challenge and as soon as possible post a message in a new thread in the SC Photo Challenges forum, with details of the new theme. Don't forget - that opening message must include a copy of these instructions, which also double as the rules.

6. The curator can't enter his or her own salon.

7. Please, don“t be shy...Participate and have fun!

8. Each salon should be open for about two weeks.

As a theme, this is inspired ... bordering on genius

My mum certainly thinks I'm a genius, but then again she says her television instructs her to put doilies over every piece of visible furniture. BTW cant wait to see what you come up with, given that you make very distinctive individual images.

Just to set the ball rolling, here's my homage to....



This image does NOT form part of the contest.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Now lose a bunch of that hair and gain 30 pounds and I'll be flattered
Seriously, well done.

Love it all, the idea, the photo, all of it. Mr Luke, you have a challenger! The force is strong in this one....

Just thinking about it is exciting. Partly because I'm going on an imaginary spending spree and imaginary vacations.

So far (in my mind), I've bought an old Rollieflex (and an M9) to shoot in Puerto Rico, a K-5 for a quick trip down under, a GRD and a GXR for my trip to Philly to shoot a bit of street and then a mixed bag of Oly gear, a Sigma DP and a NEX with some manual glass to shoot all over the UK. I'm hoping to fit in some quick jaunts to Bangalore, Serbia, France and a few other stops as well, but I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

Is this theme too much trouble? Would you guys like a theme that wouldn't involve as much work/study?

I'm channeling some SC members today and will go out this afternoon to see what I can find.

Originally Posted by Boid

Is this theme too much trouble? Would you guys like a theme that wouldn't involve as much work/study?

No and no from my point of view