Look Closely- EOTB95

April 11th, 2018
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," and that is your challenge. This challenge, created by Jeff Walker, uses the quote fro Margaret Wolfe Hungerford and challenges you to change your view of looking at 'ordinary', daily life things: using newly opened, different eyes, sensible to the 'extra ordinarily' that's hidden in 'the ordinary or even unattractive things'!

Now it’s time to continue the search for unconventional beauty in EOTB95.

If you're not sure what this challenge is all about, here is a description:

Your objective in this challenge is to catch something most people would not consider to be beautiful, and find a way to capture it so that it comes across beautifully. You can achieve it any way you wish. 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 bring out the beauty of your subject. It will also help you look at your surroundings differently. Everything is potentially a beautiful pic. It is not a matter of finding something to photograph, but finding a way to photograph something that makes photographing it worthwhile.

There is no specific item or theme for this challenge, but the subject you photograph has to be something that, if people were watching you taking the shot, they would be wondering what on earth has possessed you to photograph something which seems so ordinarily, plain, bland, boring, ugly, etc.

Beauty is all around. You just have to reprogramm your brains and your eyes accordingly to be able to see the extra ordinarily in the ordinary.

EOTB95 starts now, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, and will be opened for your creative eyes and shots till 24.00 hours of Tuesday, April 24, 2018 (use your own time zone). All your entries must be taken and posted during this time.
I'll select some finalists asap and ask you to vote for your favorite soon after that. The photographer with the most votes has the honor to host the next EOTB.

TAG is EOTB95

It's not an ETSOOI challenge so a bit of editing is okay, but please don't overdo it.
Please, also share your pics to this thread to give others inspiration and keep it visible in this joyful jungle of challenges;-)

I'll be watching to see what you'll come up with. Can't wait to see the hidden beauty you discover.
April 11th, 2018
Thought I'd tag this for the challenge. My son certainly wondered what I was taking a photo of!

April 11th, 2018
@dibzgreasley Very nice!
April 12th, 2018
Circles
April 12th, 2018
Almost empty
April 12th, 2018
April 19th, 2018
@aecasey

Another!
April 22nd, 2018
We have some great entries for EOTB95. Have you seen anything you'd like to share? You have until Tuesday at midnight. Keep looking!
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