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Very normal people

15th September 2009 by Violette

What I love about this picture is the perspective. The girl in the front looking away, the sentence “Very Normal People”, the arch and the landscape in the distance. The eye is pulled in two different directions which makes this photo truly fantastic.

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Radioactive

8th July 2009 by Violette

What or who will rise from the surface in the next few minutes? Who broke the phial?

I find the picture striking because it gives me a lot to think about, I can reinvent the scenario as much as I want and it gets scarier every time!

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Every which way

6th January 2009 by Kai Chan Vong

Do you ever take time to really appreciate symmetry? It’s a calming thing to see half of something and quickly be reassured by the other half. Maybe that’s why creatures are all 2 symmetrical halves and then we try to find someone else, as if a symmetrical solution to that conclusion.

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Joker card

2nd January 2009 by Kai Chan Vong

A flash gun on your camera can leave such a great dent in the texture of the subject if done correctly. One of the common mistakes is to fire off a flash directly at something, which done closely will look poor and like a flash grenade has gone off in your subjects face. Try avoiding this and instead try bouncing the light off walls, ceilings or other people’s faces (I jest, I jest). You’ll get a beautifully lit up piece that will be the envy of all your friends.

One of the common mistakes people do with the flash is in crowds from a distace trying to take a photo in the dark with their pocket camera and using leaving their flash on, which just lights up the air infront of them. Your goal (pun intended) is to light up the subject, not what you’re going to breathe.

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Lookingggg coooool.

22nd December 2008 by Kai Chan Vong

Gotta love that hair style, it’s bound to become vogue soon! Have you ever taken any stupidly cool photos of your self or your broom? Share them with us.

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In Transit

1st December 2008 by Kai Chan Vong

Oh I do love this emerald like green amongst the blur of the moving crowd. There’s something very chilly about it all!

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Booh?

23rd November 2008 by Kai Chan Vong

I can only guess this is supposed to be of the ghosts from Pacman, done using a long shutter speed to capture light movement.

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This Is Me, Now

17th November 2008 by Aimee Marie

Hi! My name’s Aimee Marie & I’m a photographer & writer from London, England. I feel privileged to have been invited to guest-blog here at This Is Now & hope to share inspiration, creativity & visual-awakenings from the amazing This Is Now Flickr Pool!

I currently run my own photography & lifestyle blog at aimeemarie.com, but my passion began many moons ago, when I won my first 35mm point & shoot camera in a raffle when I was about 10! I began snapping away at anything & everything & soon moved to digital photography a few years later. I have some photography qualifications, but I wholeheartedly believe that you don’t need a grade on a piece of paper to tell you how good you are, as many people on Flickr have proved!

The photo below is from my Final Major Project at college, where I decided to concentrate on the Seven Deadly Sins– a subject which has been covered many, many times — but this time, with a twist. For me, the desensitization of the Sins is now. Society as a whole has been blinded by the mass-production of items that we covet & instead, we just see all these lovely, colourful things that we own & adore, forgetting that about the greed & gluttonous side of things.

I think it’s also very apt that I’ve heavily photoshopped this image, as we live in a time where perfection is something that many people now have a deep desire for & strive to get through surgery & enhancements.

All that from a bunch of shoes, eh?

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