First of all a big thanks to everyone who participated in challenge 5, to KWind for hosting it and on a personal note, a massive thank you to everyone who voted for "Nailed", giving me the honor of hosting this, the 6th Eye of the Beholder challenge. Our continued thanks also to Jeff Walker who devised the challenge in the first place.
So in Jeff's own words this is what the challenge is all about:
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
For those of you that don't want to commit to a specific set of words for a month, are intimidated by the thought of being pushed by another 365'er, don't want to be constrained to a specific mundane object, aren't feeling the week's theme, feel you don't have the creativity, time or tools for album and wwyd challenges but still want to face down and conquer a challenge, I have just the challenge for YOU!
(Also, if you enjoy facing all the above challenges and can't get enough of challenges and want to add another challenge to your arsenal, this is for YOU as well!)
Here's the lowdown (and its fairly simple):
Your challenge is to find something most people would not consider to be beautiful, and find a way to capture it that IS beautiful. You can achieve it any way you desire. This challenge will help you with your composition and lighting skills. The way you compose the shot or the way you use light will usually be the way you bring out the beauty. It will also help you look at your surroundings differently. Everything is potentially a beautiful photograph. Its not a matter of finding something to photograph, its a matter of finding a way to photograph something that makes photographing it worthwhile.
There is not specific item you have to photograph for this challenge. And the only rule is that the subject you photograph has to be something that, if people were watching you photograph it, would be wondering what has possessed you to photograph something so plain, bland, boring, ugly, etc. Beauty is where you find it, and it is all around you. Train your eye to see things differently".
The challenge begins now and runs through to Thursday 11th April at midnight GMT. Entries must be taken within this timeframe.
I will select and post the 5 images that I feel best achieved the goal on the 12th April and voting will run from then until Sunday 14th at 9.00pm GMT.
I will announce the winner shortly thereafter and then that person will have the honour of hosting the next challenge and selecting the 5 finalists from that round.
To enter: just tag your entries EOTB6 in the tag field on the page on which you post your photo in your own album.
Multiple entries possible.
My pleasure and honour to host this one Jocasta. Jeff Walker is the man to thank for devising it. I think it is a great challenge as it is not limiting and really opens your eyes to things that you might otherwise pass over. Have fun with it and enjoy!
It is the 1st of April and I have absolutely nothing to contribute to this thread, but suddenly I can't stop myself from posting on each and every one.
This day I hadn't found anything interesting to photograph. I happened to pass by this storm drain for the 20th+ time and happened to see "Made in Brazil" stamped on it. As I thought about it, I figured there must be a way for me to shoot this, to make something plain seem more interesting.
I am going to try to participate.....but I started thinking diptych and ETSOOI and got distracted! I am going to try! I may even have a pics took the right time already..I take pics of lists of "ugly" stuff! Lol
@lornahw I checked - You have tagged your photo Shower Scrub correctly. If you enter eotb6 in the search field (on any page) in the top right hand corner, it will take you to a page where discussions relating to the challenge are listed. If you click on the "photos" tab in the list on the left hand side it will take you to all the entries and you can see your photo there. I hope this helps.
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This day I hadn't found anything interesting to photograph. I happened to pass by this storm drain for the 20th+ time and happened to see "Made in Brazil" stamped on it. As I thought about it, I figured there must be a way for me to shoot this, to make something plain seem more interesting.
This is part of a broken, rotted, and peeling bench. Still, I find it somewhat charming.
Chipping paint on an old window frame.
The inside of a filament lightbulb =)