Photo Story

This is a wonderful example of chrono photography. I don't know about you but I always used to love flick books as a child - to induce the illusion of motion with a series of static pictures or drawings. It just shows how wonderful our brain is and also how easily we can be tricked by it. Well done Doggo!

Simple idea but rather effective in my opinion. Well done for putting this together. We may feel alone but are not alone at the same time. I agree. Still nowadays a single voice is insignificant and has no weight.. So the real question here is, how many green little men will it take to create a movement and for all other red men to turn green and get going?.

The story behind this composite is around a storm - "before and after or middle". It's a stunning picture with very strong contrasts here, one between the sky and the earth and another between humans and nature, that, in an instant ,became all blurred. Isn't that what life is all about, although we are sometimes so different and separate, we are also sometimes so the same and all together, it all the depends on the bonding agent around us. This is a good reminder that no matter what, we are a part of this planet and despite our attempts to set us apart we are bound to the same laws and forces than everything else on this earth. Thank you and well done.

This is my number 2. I absolutely love the story behind this composite. It's such a wonderful idea to go on a walk and keep a record of the street texture you just walked on. I recently went for walks with my best friend just for catch ups rather than seeing each other over a meal in a restaurant. My friend noticed that I have a tendency to look up all the time and pay attention to mouldings near the top of houses which he didn't notice since his look was more focused straight ahead of him. It's true that photographers get you reacquainted with your environment because they look where most people forgot to look. This is a wonderful example of just that. For the effort, the idea and the time to put this together, it is worth to be on the winning podium. This would make a great poster for the city. Well done.

Many stories were submitted and I cannot thank you enough for your strong participation in this contest. Sequences of event can be put together in different ways around which a narrative can be created to tell the story about a subject. The most conventional ones would be the before and after picture or two distant time points and typical sequences of a life cycle depicting the beginning, the middle and the end of a subject. In my opinion, this was the most beautifully put together life cycle sequence of a flower - the yellow poppy. This composite presented the quality you would find in a print template that has been teared out from an antique book and is ready to be framed so to be hang up on the wall. The entire construct has a lightness of being. We might think that some sequences could be repetitive and could have been omitted. I thank the photographer for not doing so and for not taking short cuts. This truly represents a life cycle where at least 50% of it is spend in its adult form with little noticeable changes. Just for that, I rewarded this composition, to value the idea and the photographer that stood by it and not wanting to take short cuts. Sometimes a story is just about life that unfurls like a long quiet river; as we say in France - "la vie comme a long fleuve tranquille". Congratulations and well done (for not rushing to the end).

Another way to tell a story is to gather representative pictures at a particular event and put them together to commemorate that particular event. I have chosen this one. I myself never attended a Gay Pride but there is an authenticity in those portrait that compels you to to want to know more about the people portraited here and just wanting to be there. Thank you.