Urban Minimalism
The Young PhotoGrapher

Urban Minimalism

March 2023

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Great contest!

First of all, thanks for entering my contest.

This photo you have taken here is so cool!

I love the balconies, they are exactly the same but that is what is cool because having anything (especially architecture) in a perfect repeated pattern like this is cool, sometimes it can be a bit boring but usually not.

I love the shadows! It looks like a bunch of S(s) inside the shadows! Also what is cool is how the whole side of this building here is in shadow except for the tiny strips that have the S shapes! I like how it looks like that.

The sharpness of this photo is amazing! You can see everything crystal clear, some photos are like this but there are many that aren't which makes this photo even better!

So great job on this photo and taking a photo good enough for Second Place!

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First of all, thanks for entering my contest.

This photo you have taken here is so cool!

I love how bright the area where this guy is! It really lets you see him and the cables.

What a crazy job this must be! I can't believe that some people would want to do something like this for a living.

I love the building and how you can only see it a little bit! You have captured this photo so perfectly I can't believe it because you can see him and the cables SO PERFECTLY but the rest of the building is just barely bright enough to where you know it is there.

So fabulous job on this photo and taking a photo good enough for Ninth Place!

First of all, thanks for entering my contest.

This photo you have taken here is very cool.

I love the red line of coarse, it is what makes this photo so interesting. Now I wonder if you saturated the red line and desaturated the rest, if you did, then that is creative because it makes this photo even cooler and lets that line REALLY pop. I am sure it would look cool if it was not edited, but saturating the red line makes it way cooler than it would have looked.

I also like how the side of the staircase is grey but the wall is white, this makes the two parts stand out Just Enough from each other that you can tell which part is which without needing the red line to help you out!

This photo is another one of those photos that has literally almost NOTHING in it, but yet it still is really cool! In fact this is exactly what Urban Minimalism is all about!

So great job on this photo and taking a photo good enough for Sixth Place!

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First of all, thanks for entering my contest.

This photo you have taken here is super cool!

I love the wall! I can't seem to figure out just WHAT the wall is!!! Is it a painting, a blanket or just a regular wall? Anyway whatever it is, it is super cool with that bright red to make itself really show and stand out. Sometimes having a background stand out too much is not so good since you want the subject to stand out more but in this case it looks really cool this way! I also wanted to point out that the background is cool because of all those little colors in between the red!

Another thing that is very interesting about this photo is how your daughter does not stand out even though she is not wearing or has pretty much any of the colors that really stand out on the wall! It must be because of the red being so bright bright that it makes it be the subject rather than her.

What I also wanted to add as a bit of constructive criticism is that you could sharpen this photo to make it look a lot better and show more detail. The photo is already really cool and you can see everything perfect, but it is the tiniest bit blurry and sharpening it in editing would make it look even cooler than it does! Just wanted to add that in as something that you could do to fix it up a little!

So amazing job on this photo and taking a photo good enough for Seventh Place!

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First of all, thanks for entering my contest.

This photo you have taken here is very cool.

I love the three door handles! They are exactly the same but the rust (or whatever it is on them) makes them look so different! I love the little line things on the doors, if they were not here, this photo would be just some plain grey doors and three handles. I am so glad that they were here to make this photograph more interesting!

So great job on this photo and taking a photo good enough for Fourth Place!

First of all, thanks for entering my contest.

This photo you have taken here is amazing.

I love all of the triangles! They are so many that would be a super hard challenge to count each one!!! It is also cool how the triangles at the top left are so close and the ones at the bottom right are so far away.

And the last thing I wanted to point out is how much amazing contrast is in this photo. At some parts like the top left it is just white, the middle left side has still white but there is some black in it, then the bottom is all black, that is why this photo is so amazing. If it was Just black, Just white or Just grey, then it would still be really cool but not This amazing!

So wonderful job on this photo and taking a photo good enough for Fifth Place!

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First of all, thanks for entering my contest.

This photo you have taken here is totally amazing!

I love how many colors are here! And while the colors are so amazing the stripes are just as cool with how they are so different. Some buildings just have the same repeated patterns but this hotel surely isn't! This hotel was definitely made by some creative people!

I love the curtains, they make this photo even more interesting because EVERY SINGLE ONE is different. Yes there are some that are closed which makes some of them the same, but even in those ones there are lots of different wrinkles, but if you look at the other ones that aren't closed, you will notice how differently they are open!

This photo is a PERFECT example of how truly amazing an Urban Minimalism photo can be!

So amazing job on this photo and taking a photo good enough to be my First Place Winner!!!

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For this contest I would like to see your best photos showing minimalism in an urban environment. Urban minimalism is when the photographer takes an urban photo with not much in the photograph. I hope you have fun with this contest and have some great photos.

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First of all, thanks for entering my contest.

This photo you have taken here is really cool.

I love how you can just barely see the sky by where the church is! Everything else is so bright white.

I like how bright you made this image by brightening it of course and adding vignetting too! If I was you I would have downed the vignetting a little bit but that is just me, some people probably like it more that it is this bright!

I love the church! It stands out because it is the ONLY thing in the entire photograph that is dark! This picture is so bright it hurts my eyes a bit but if I stare just at the church it kind of gives my eyes a rest! 😆

I also like how the church is coming out of whatever the white (again) thing is on the side, this is another reason why this photo is so interesting because you do not see too many pictures of churches where part of the church is blocked off by something... Or at least I haven't!!!

So great job on this photo and taking a photo good enough for 10th Place!

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First of all, thanks for entering my contest.

This photo you have taken here is fabulous!

I love how unique this staircase is! I have never seen one like this.

At first I did not even come close to knowing what this was except that it looked like an avocado cut in half repeated many times! 😂 Now I can see that it is the view UNDERNEATH this staircase!!! Staircases are so cool and fun to photograph and there are endless ways to photograph them!

I also love the black line that leads your eyes all the way to where you can't even see anything anymore! And I like how you put your name at the bottom! That was a smart place to put it.

So wonderful job on this photo and taking a photo good enough for Third Place!

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