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The Challenge in May is to Convey the Idea of “Smell” in a Photograph
Anna is not in Tahiti any longer but she misses the distinctive smells. That gave her the idea for the May theme: “Smells.”
Anna started Tahiti Daily Photo one year ago, but she is not new to blogging. She wrote a personal blog with news for her family during the three years she lived and worked in French Polynesia. Anna lives in France these days, but she shows photographs taken when she worked in Tahiti and during a two month holiday in Tahiti last summer – plus some friends ‘ “live from Tahiti” photographs.
A smell is something you can only imagine when looking at a photograph or reading a blog post. How are you going to convey the idea of a smell on this month’s theme day, May 1?
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Simplicity is beautiful. It makes a picture easily readable. Many people show half of the world in a single picture – friends, buildings, trees, signs, landscape, sky, clouds. That is too much, it is confusing. Focus on just one subject, make it simple. If you like to show your friends, make a picture of your friends. If you like landscapes, take a photo of that landscape alone, without something else. One photo, one subject. Make it simple and your photos will be readable by everyone. "Less is more."
This month's theme comes from Karl at Bolzano Daily Photo. Karl has been blogging since 2005 in German and Italian. In 2010 he started BDP in English. Karl speaks Ladin (his mother language), Italian and German fluently. His English is now pretty good, thanks to his blog and all his English language online friends. (Karl also understands Spanish and French.)
Karl has posted more than 2,000 daily posts on BDP, with more than 5,000 pictures. He has not missed a day on BDP since starting in 2010, and all of the photos were taken exclusively in South Tyrol (where Switzerland, Austria and Italy meet).
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Where do you belong? Where is Heimat for you?
The Germans call it “Heimat.” English speakers can’t say it in one word. Your homeland? (Not quite.) Being comfortable and happy here? Feeling that this is the place is where you should be? (Getting closer.)
JB has blogged since 2007 from Mainz Daily Photo, a 2000 year old city on the Rhein in central Germany. Born in the UK,, grew in New Zealand, JB has lived in Germany for more than 40 years. Mainz is where JB feels he belongs. It is his Heimat.
JB has blogged since 2007 from Mainz Daily Photo, a 2000 year old city on the Rhein in central Germany. Born in the UK, grew up in New Zealand, JB has lived in Germany for more than 40 years. Mainz is where JB feels he belongs. It is his Heimat. Though he does spend the European winters in New Zealand, where he writes (Not the) Nelson Daily Photo.
On March 1, can you show us a photo that captures why you are – and want to be – in the city or town from which you produce your City Daily Photo blog?
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This month's theme comes from Merisi at Merisi's Vienna for Beginners. In the years since she moved to Austria, she has come to love and appreciate its coffee houses. In 2011, the UNESCO declared Viennese coffee house culture an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Austria. The Austrian writer Stefan Zweig left the following ode to the Viennese coffee house in his memoir "The World of Yesterday":
"... it must be said that the Viennese coffeehouse is a particular institution which is not comparable to any other in the world. As a matter of fact, it is a democratic club to which admission costs the small price of a cup of coffee. Upon payment of this mite every guest can sit for hours on end, discuss, write, play cards, receive his mail, and, above all, can go through an unlimited number of newspapers and magazines."
A daily blogger since 2005, Merisi challenges City Daily Photo bloggers from around the world to show us scenes from coffee places in their own neighbourhoods.
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In Paris on vacation, Jack came across an outdoor photo exhibition along the Seine. One intriguing set of large format photographs showed faces of Africans from a remote village. These tribal members practiced facial scarring, an ancient (but dying) tradition.
Jack waited for someone interesting to approach the photographs. After half an hour, an elegant Frenchwomen came into view. She stood quietly and studied the African faces. Jack took a shot. The resulting image is one of his favorites from the trip. He showed it on his Naples and Hartford in Season blog in October.
Which photograph on your blog was your favorite in 2015?
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Thanks to Vrenni from to thank for this month's theme suggestion!
Verena -- also known as Vreni -- was born in Vienna, Austria, Europe, and she has never lived anywhere else. She loves her hometown, but also likes to travel and explore other cities. Vreni has a special love affair with Paris.
Vreni has always worked in the cultural sphere. Her interest in modern art, design and architecture are evident in “ Vrenni's Vienna Daily Photo,” which she started in 2010 after following “Paris Daily Photo” for several months. When she published the first photo, she thought about the blog just as “a crazy idea” and had not the slightest concept of what it takes to take 365 different photos a year.
Now Vreni never leaves her apartment without her digital camera, though most of her photos are taken during her Sunday afternoon walks or “photo safaris” as she likes to call them. Keeping her eyes open has helps Vreni to see Vienna in a new way and notice things that she had previously ignored or taken for granted.
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We have Kay at Sequim Daily Photo in Washington State for this month's theme. Having been around since 2006, Kay's blog is not in the ephemeral category!
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I wonder where LB and FFP from Austin, Texas Daily Photo will find shelter today? Don't forget to thank them for this theme suggestion by paying them a visit!
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The theme for September 1 – Curiosities – touches on the notion of odd things in our communities. Perhaps it’s an unusual artifact that always draws your eye in a museum. Maybe a bizarre artwork in a gallery remains in your memory.
And perhaps a sculpture or building or natural object standing on its own that just tweaks your curiosity.
Here we have a pair of curiosities from William of Ottawa Daily Photo, in the form of a mother and baby dinosaur sculpture on the lawn of the Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
William is a writer, photographer, and academic who can be found hiking a trail or climbing a rock face. He’s been a City Daily Photo blogger since September 2013 at Ottawa Daily Photo and longer as a writing blogger at Speak Of The Devil, where he’s frequently engaging in mayhem, chaos, and tweaking the nose of convention.
Ottawa Daily Photo explores the national capital region of Canada for the most part, though from time to time ventures beyond. It’s a city that William enjoys living in, offering a mixture of natural beauty, remarkable architecture, and cultural opportunity… as long as one ignores those politicians William calls “awful.” It’s also a city whose winter is quite welcoming to William, who has been told that his enjoyment of the season is rather strange.
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Giacomo and his wife Gianna live in the Italian port city of Livorno , the Mediterranean gateway to Florence and Tuscany. They started Livorno Daily Photo on Christmas week of 2008 and have posted continuously ever since.
Giacomo felt he needed a pen name, so he chose “VP” as “Vogon Poet” in honor of the Vogon poetry, the third worst in the universe according to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. Gianna chose Trillian, another character from the same series of books.
VP rode a bicycle as a kid, sometimes for pleasure and often as a means of transportation. Now Trillian and VP mostly walk, but they are still fascinated by locked or abandoned bikes they see around. They are one of their favorite subjects and they also invented a kind of art about them.
There many bicycles around Livorno, probably too many and a lot of them abandoned and/or damaged. This kind of bicycle, with baskets and floral decorations, is quite nice and relatively common here.
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This month's theme is courtesy of Tina, the East Gwillimbury Camera Girl. Hopefully it won't leave us with too much blood rushing to our heads!
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Grace Forde started Perth Daily Photo in April 2011 because all the main cities of the world seemed to be covered by City Daily Photo bloggers, but Perth – the most isolated city on the globe – was virtually unknown.
She wanted to show viewers that Perth has everything that Sydney and Melbourne offer, but in a slightly more “laid back” way. When the West Australian did a write up on blogs a while back, Perth Daily Photo was listed as top travel blog!
Grace’s family emigrated to Zimbabwe when she was but a baby, and she spent her teenage years there. When Grace married, new adventure called and on hearing that the weather and lifestyle were similar the young couple flew to Perth and have never regretted that choice! Even though Grace makes regular trips to Sydney to see her son and family, it's always brilliant to get back to the west coast.
In recent years, Perth has been growing and catching up in every way . . . trendy cafes, bars and restaurants, amazing art and fashion and just about everything that is, well . . . stylish! What is stylish where you are?
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Chrissy has been blogging about her adopted city of Manchester since 2011, at “Mancunian Wave.” She likes theme days that offer plenty of scope, ambiguity and poetic licence, so she chose “revolution” with this in mind.
The word conjures different images depending on your perspective.
It might be a social protest, an uprising in the traditional sense in your city or area; or maybe a revolutionary idea that comes from your city – something small like a new cycle route or maybe a medical discovery developed locally that could save lives around the world.
Revolution also of course means going round – a public transport system that is a loop or circular line? The wheels of a car? A bike race through your region? Or a beautiful wind turbine, generating green energy as it revolves?
Manchester has seen many revolutionary historical figures and some real revolutions. Ernest Rutherford split the atom there in 1910. The Pankhurst women led the suffragette movement enabling voting and – eventually – equal rights for women. Marx and Engels met and worked in Manchester and based the Communist Manifesto and other writings on the appalling working conditions resulting from the industrial revolution that started there two centuries ago.
The photo above was taken during current day national protests in Manchester against welfare cuts to the masses while the rich are given tax cuts.
Your Camera-Shy Self Portrait on April 1.
Everyone is shooting selfies. But, some of us don’t like to be on that side of the camera. So, if we ask for your self portrait but you are camera shy, what would you show us? Your shadow? Your silhouette? Your back or feet or hands? Your heavily photoshopped self? A collection of the things that are important to you?
Linda has been showing photos from her home in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia on “The View From Squirrel Ridge” since June 2005, and has been creating websites since 1997. She is retired from full-time work but has worked in the past in the fields of website development, photography, technical writing, and real estate. She has two grown children.
Linda spends a lot of her time visiting historic sites and natural areas. The Skyline Drive is a scenic highway passing north to south through the rural mountains of western Virginia. In this photograph from the Skyline Drive, Linda introduces herself to her fellow City Daily Photo bloggers. She is wondering how you will present yourself to the members of this community in your anonymous self portrait.
The Monthly Theme for March 1 is “Ageing”.
This theme has been suggested by Julie from " Sydney Eye", who is attracted to all things past their prime, for obvious reasons. The "eye" lingers over rust, and mould, and decay, as lovingly as the eye of a mother lingers over the form of her new-born.
Julie's fascination with ageing over-flows into a fondness for aged places, and things. She keeps her eye firmly trained upon the past, and admits to tut-tutting the old adage "Those who forget the past, are condemned to repeat it." Many a time has a simple photograph of a building, or an intersection, or a wrought-iron gate, morphed into a full historical paean to a long-forgotten cranny deep within the heart of colonial Sydney-town.
Not one for glamour and glitter, for bright lights, or shining stars, Julie is fascinated by hands gnarled by hard, physical work, like that of a gardener. With that in mind, she shares with us this image of a blowsy Hydrangea head, the "Norma Desmond" of her garden bed running down the side path.
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If you had to leave forever the city from which you usually post, what would you miss most? Would it be a food, a place or a craft? Maybe it would be a person, or perhaps a custom. Start thinking . . . !
The February theme was suggested by Pat, a.k.a. Bibi, from A Yankee in Belgrade. A retired language professor, Pat has lived in Europe more than she has lived in the USA, her home country; seven years in France and 37 in Belgrade. Pat discovered City Daily Photo more than seven years ago while searching for some Paris information for a friend. She came across Paris Daily Photo.
The seed was planted and she started her blog in March 2008. Pat takes her camera literally everywhere she goes. On the rare occasions that she doesn't, of course she sees the Photo of the Century . . . .
Though Pat often grumbles about some aspects of life in Serbia, she would miss many things about Belgrade should she have to go. One of them is the Romi, or gypsies, as they are frequently called. Pat is continually fascinated by their spirit, ingenuity, love of life, and friendliness, despite the hardships they face daily. This photo shows two paper collectors in a vehicle they've put together themselves.
For the past several years, the City Daily Photo bloggers have celebrated the New Year by exhibiting their best (or favorite) photograph of the year that has just ended. So, let’s do it again. OK?
Jack from “Naples and Hartford in Season” has offered to show a favorite photograph with this announcement. Jack is a retired lawyer who began his CDP blog six days after his retirement in mid-2010. It was originally based in Hartford, Connecticut, but now Jack lives in the winter in Naples, Florida, so he posts from both cities – and wherever else he travels.
This photograph is from an October trip to Italy. Siracusa is a beautiful old city on the southeastern coast of Sicily. Jack hung around the piazza in front of the Duomo and waited for someone to enter the scene from the left. These two young men cooperated. What will you show us on January 1?
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I was strolling beside the Thames one evening a year or two ago, and found a bunch of people at work under very strange lights. I was a tourist, Dustin and his friends were in their workplace.
It doesn't look as though there is much work being done to me, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
I wonder if we'll see any butchers or chemists at work when our theme day "Worker" gallery opens in just a week's time?
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