Music To Photo Competition

[Beau]

Hello All. Hope your year has been great so far. A recent discussion with Cassandra Hoffman and Sean O'Neill @seanoneill @ozziehoffy led me to try an attempt at my first theme challenge. Hope I do this correctly. If I haven't, please someone help me whose done a challenge theme before.

Here we go:
I love music. Everything about it; the lyrics, the complexity and yet sometimes powerful simplicity of the music. When I'm lost for a photo, I'll usually gravitate towards a song and try to reproduce it in a picture. Maybe some line of lyric or the feeling within the song itself. A good example is my photo from Dec 26th: http://365project.org/losthorizon/365/2012-12-26 Based on a Mark Knopfler song titled "Ragpicker's Dream"

So here it is:
Attempt to capture a song in a photo...anyway you want. Again...it can be a lyric within the song, the songs theme or just a visualization of the music. Can be your favorite song or just a song that you think would make a great, or provocative photo. Be creative. Oh..this must be a new photo, not one taken previously. It is a challenge after all. Also....if you can...please let us know what the song is and what the inspiration was for the photo.

The challenge will last 2 weeks...lets say Jan 18th to Feb 1st. I'll pick the top 10, repost them and the voting will begin. Tag the photo theme-musictophoto. Good luck. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[Beau]

@ozziehoffy @seanoneill Thanks you two.

[Patty]

Sweet! I'm up for this challenge Beau! So glad to see you taking the reins of one of these :-)

[Beau]

@socalgal Thanks Patty. Glad your trying. You have a great taste for music. :)

[Miley]

Nice one!

[Robyn]

Great idea! I often use songs to inspire photo ideas. Thanks for initiating it, Beau!

[Therese]

This is a great idea!!! I'll join!!!

May we take only one photo... , or how many... or can we do as many as we please? @losthorizon

[Beau]

@miley89 @rockinrobyn Thanks Miley. Thanks Robyn. :)

[Beau]

@monkeykid Thanks Therese. As many as you want. Let your creativity flow.

[Lili]

Great idea!

[Sean O'Neill]

Thanks Beau, I am delighted that you've set this challenge. It's a cracker!

[melissa]

I've tried doing this several times, I always fail.

[Laura]

Good idea - I will try it although with my "unique" taste in music (some call it rubbish) it will be interesting.

[r nelly]

Sounds very interesting...already got a song that would be fun to translate into a photograph. :)

[Tiara]

awesome idea. def have used music for a shot before

[Spirrow]

Blast!!!! I used a Tom Petty song just two days ago!

[Spirrow]

Oh, great idea, by the way :)

[AmandaKay]

love this idea!

[The Mysterious Mr Biscuit]

Is this restricted to photos we take after the 18th?

[Beau]

@Cheesebiscuit Yes...has to be a new photo, within the two weeks posted

[Pegg]

I am not sure if I am up to the challenge but I think it is a great idea. There is a line of a song I have always wanted to capture ...

[The Mysterious Mr Biscuit]

@losthorizon Okay, thanks. I'd got a couple I would have contributed otherwise, but now I'll have to put my thinking cap on again.

[KJ]

@losthorizon I LOVE the idea of this challenge. My partner and I perform as a duo and I have been singing since since I was very young! Great idea...thank you for posting it up! Can't wait to give it a go now :)

[☠northy]

Hmmm! I'm the other way around... Songs often start to come to find as I am shooting and sometes change the nature of the shot... Must think on this

[📸 Bulldog 📷]

I did a whole month of replicating Album covers back in May 12, they might give you some ideas?

Have a look here and see how many you can get without clicking the links for the answers.

This is the first one:

[Wendy Bowden]

Sounds like cool fun

[The Mysterious Mr Biscuit]

@gphelps5 lmao! That's brilliant!

[PineLakeChic]

@gphelps5 Love it!!!

@losthorizon Sounds fun. I will see if I can come up with something! :)

[Therese]

@victorypuzzle @todimf Dominique and Cecilia!!! Here's the challenge!!!

[Cecilia]

@monkeykid Thanks :)

[Cecilia]

I will be joining this one for sure!! sound fun!!

[Cassandra Hoffmann]

@losthorizon Great idea, Beau :) Will see if I can come up with something. Was a great little discussion, appreciated your input :)

[George]

i'm definitely up for this - lets see how it goes!!

[Kellie]

What a fantastic idea!! Do we post the photos here?

I've got to follow you based on this concept. Just brilliant. Feel free to give this newbie a peak. I love interacting with the seasoned pros. ;)

[Miley]

I need to take a pen and pad out with me. Every time I think of something when listening to my iPod on the bus etc. I forget what lyric struck me!

[Beau]

@kelkel Thanks Kellie. Though I definitely don't belong in the "seasoned professional" category, appreciate you trying this out. Any questions, feel free to ask. As for posting, you can on this thread to show your idea, but you have to tag it theme-musictophoto for it to considered for vote.

[Beau]

@miley89 Lmao...I started doing that with my phone awhile ago. Frustrating isn't it?

[Kellie]

@losthorizon thanks for the feedback! Will you be my 50th follow? :)

[Beau]

@kelkel No problem. LOL....would be honored. Following. :)

[Cathy Breen]

Great idea for a challenge, I only just discovered it so I won't be entering but can't wait to see what people come up with.

[Florence]

I love the idea! I just discovered the challenge yesterday, but I definitely wanted to give it a try. Unfortunately I am confronted to my miserable skills (or lack thereof), and my picture does not do justice to the song. If you want to judge for yourself: http://365project.org/florrie/365/2013-01-30 @losthorizon