Challenge #5 - reportage

More weird settings: f9, 1/320s, 45mm, ISO 720

Sleeveface - harder than it looks

From the hard-hitting reportage of the recession, I was mucking about the other day after reading about the SleeveFace phenomenon. Basically, if you haven't heard of it, you get someone to stick a record sleeve in from of their face and take a picture. 

Here's a couple of examples. 

It's not as easy as it looks. 

Challenge #5 - so whose stupid f**king idea was this?

f8, 1/320s, 85mm, 640ISO...WTF? Can only assume it was a hungover morning when I got the train into St Alban's, as I walk past a series of closed shops on the way to the office. Got lots of fairly similar closed/for rent premises which I might subject you to if I can't find anything more original.

Reportage Challenge: Toby's #1 - again

Attached again - didn't upload properly the first time.

Reportage Challenge: Toby's #2

"Bail out the workers, not the bankers"; the Socialist Workers Party haven't had so much fun since the recession of the 1980s.  Again, bankrupt Woollies store in Worcester. Going to become a TK Maxx, I believe. Is that a sign of recession or recovery? 

25mm, f8, 1/800sec, ISO400. 

Reportage Challenge: Toby's #1

Well this has been a bugger. Here's a couple of attempts.

A man chalks a picture for coins from passers-by outside the now-closed Woolworths in Worcester city centre. 

50mm, f8, 1/640sec, ISO400.  High contrast BW conversion. 

Salford Quays, or.... Predictably, Kev takes some photos of buildings

Well, well, there's a surprise. I took some photos of buildings.

I put these in my "Bilbao - Birmingham - Manchester" collection. In retrospectives in years to come, others will point to this phase of my photographic development and see the spark of genius and hold up these photos as icons of a golden age, and they shall wonder whether the world will see such a unique talent again.

Or perhaps not.

The other photos are HERE