This week’s topic is Telephones – new, cell, vintage, etc. Use your imagination and creativity with this topic. I hope you have a lot of fun with the topic.
For a list of upcoming topics, please see the list at below. Be creative and challenge yourself. Look for contrast or highly textured subjects to shoot.
Thank you everyone for your overwhelming enthusiasm for the challenge last week. I’m proud to announce our featured bloggers from the Bathrooms and Outhouses. Please check out their posts, they are worthy of a second look. ENJOY!
Featured Bloggers
Who would ever have thought bathrooms and outhouses could be so fun.
PonderTheIrrelevant – Vintage toilets and an outhouse. How is that for style?
There was a time – These bathrooms need updating. Warning bring your own toilet paper.
Mad Meandering Me – Two great photos that will bring you back in time.
Insight From a Woman’s Heart – Bright shiny and new bathroom. The little two year old had some fun posing too. I really like the photos with him in them, especially the photo of him inspecting the toilet.
TheOnlyD800InTheHameau – Bright shiny and new faucet. I love the symmetry in this photo.
Dandelion Fuzz – One of her photos really grabbed my attention. The one with the reflection of the round mirrors.
Upcoming Topics
- Close Ups
- Numbers: Anything with numbers on it
- Geometric Shapes
- Signs: traffic, directional, signs along the roads or on buildings
- Abandoned or Alone
This challenge accepts the following types of photography:
- Black and white photography
- Sepia tones (browns)
- Selective color with the majority of the photo being in black and white.
Hopefully you will have a lot of fun with this challenge and find your creative eye will be expanded. Here are a couple tips and tricks posts I have done specifically for black and white photography.
ENJOY and have FUN.
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Create a Cee’s Black & White Challenge Post
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My entry this week
The first three photos I edited in Nik Software FX Silver FXPro2. I’m trying out the Nik Software for a couple of weeks. So far I’m very happy with the results. I’ve tried learning Photoshop on my own, but I have been unsuccessful. So maybe this will give me an easier way to play around when I want to.
This photo is of Chris’s iPhone 5. Yesterday, she bought the camera lenses and tripod so she can play around a little more with the photography from her phone. I just had to take a photo of it for this challenge and use the vintage look.
Vintage wall phone.
Vintage phone.
The dial pad from our land line at our house.
Qi (energy) hugs,
Cee
Great phone photos, Cee. Hey, can you tell me more about the lenses and little tripod Chris is using for her iPhone? I’m interested! In the meantime, here’s my entry! https://livingwithmyancestors.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/cees-black-and-white-photo-challenge-telephones-new-cell-vintage-etc/
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I really don’t know much about them. We had just gotten them. They seem to work pretty well. They are only $40 for everything. I think it was three lenses that clip onto a holder that wraps around your iPhone so they stay in place. They are fixed lenses what you see is what you get. The tripod is really cheap, but it has a standard tripod screw so you can actually attach it any monopod or tripod. Hope this helps.
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Thanks, Cee! 😀
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I love your phones- here are mine- I was in a playful mood with this one! https://dailymusing57.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-telephones/
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That’s quite an array of phones!
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Thanks, glad you like my phones 🙂
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Where in the world did you find all these phones? Oh my. I’ve already just used my phone shot for a different prompt. A bit of coordination here, please, Cee!!! Okay…perhaps I can tweak it a different way???
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I actually got the vintage phones at a Clock Museum in Salem, Oregon. 🙂
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By “got” do you mean photographed or bought???
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The photographs…sorry I wasn’t so clear.
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If I were to buy vintage anything it would be a camera, typewriter or car. 🙂
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I understand. For a photographer, once you have photographed it, it is yours!!!! I must admit that I at first thought you’d purchased them all. Now that’s more my style!! But trying to reform.
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You are right,once I take that photo I do claim it as mine. 🙂 Chris and I used to be guilty of buying a bunch of stuff we like…..we got over it though. 🙂
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Thank you for including my pics!
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You are welcome.
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I wish I had an old phone – on my wish list is a working bakelite dial phone. Oh well…here’s my entry: https://aquamarineeyes.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/toby-takes-a-call/
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Great photos Cee
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Thanks 🙂
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Great photos!
Here’s mine 🙂
https://idleandboredtwo.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/cees-bw-telephones/
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Here is my go:http://wp.me/p3gqMf-7A
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It is amazing how technology has changed – and how much the iphone sort of resembles the vintage phones! Great shots! Thanks so much for the feature this week 🙂
(http://wp.me/p2LPv4-11a)
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http://wp.me/p5bXdB-Da
Hi Cee. I hope you enjoy my combo challenge. 🙂
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I have a small selection of phones for you: http://travelwithintent.com/2015/04/02/telephone-boxes-soon-a-thing-of-the-past/
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Oh this is wonderful ,Cee. Great collection of phones I love.
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Thanks so much for your wonderful comment. 🙂
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I like the vintage shot of the iPhone
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I had too much fun with it. 🙂 Thanks Debbie.
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Holiday is over, trying to get into the groove of posting again Here is my contribution https://ritvasillanmaki.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/cees-bw-vintage-telephones/
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Welcome home from your holiday!
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Ya gotta love the old ones!!!
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They were classic and had great lines. 🙂
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These are great!
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Thanks Dawn 🙂
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Wow! These are great!
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Glad you like these photos. Thanks 🙂
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You almost took me into my memories… once upon a time… Thank you, love, nia
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Hi Nia, thanks for commenting.
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I love this display, especially the bottle of crown royal, almost out of sight in the middle of all those phones.
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Thanks for commenting 🙂
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