A very English nirvava

Waiting for the 75 bus, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.

I decided to post this again as the picture was chosen as a finalist in the Cyan Second Look competition.

"An exciting new exhibition, in which members

of the public can participate,

is running in Bristol this summer.

The exhibition itself is being organised by Second Look,

a local photographers’ collective, and will be hosted by

Cyan Arts – a new local art gallery in St Nicholas Market.

The Bristol snappers will be showing their ‘Second Looks’

at our fair city throughout August and will be

inviting the public to send in their own photos for

possible inclusion in the show."

Take a look and if you want to vote for my photos email your preference here;

bristolasecondlook@hotmail.co.uk

BBC photo essay competition

For anyone interested, the BBC has invited people to send in their own photo essays (click here to see the site). I'm going to write up one in the next few days

"Have you been to an unusual event? Do you want to shed light on a subject or place that you are interested in, or would you just like to show off your best pictures?

If so then we want you to send us between eight and 10 photographs with captions for presentation as a gallery on the In Pictures page."

You can send it as an email here - yourpics@bbc.co.uk

Also it gives some good advice on how to approach this. I think I'm going to be using this as the basis of a few lessons/class project in the following school year;

Guide to shooting a Photo Essay

Photos:

Ideally, you should aim to take a variety of photographs - it's a good idea to plan the story before you start. A good first photo would be one that introduces the subject to the readers.

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Make sure you take some close-up photos as well as some wider pictures to show the subject's environment, but remember to include something in the foreground to add impact.

When you take the picture, remember to look up or down to see what is around you. You might get a better shot if you kneel, or find a position to look down from.

The completed photo essay will have no more than 10 photographs, but you can send us more to choose from.

Make sure you have permission from anyone pictured before submitting the photographs.

Words:

Each picture will need a caption.

Who, what, why, where and when is a good place to start when gathering information for the caption, but where possible quotes from those pictured and a description of how you are feeling will help bring the essay to life.

We don't need many words - no more than 40 per picture.

Competition Time at the BBC

I came across this site on the BBC. They want to hear from young people who use online social networks. I'll be asking my students (who have their own class or personal blogs) over the next week to contribute, if they want to.

"Aged between 13 and 19? Into online social networking? And - most importantly - fancy your 15 minutes of fame to a worldwide audience?

Click is the BBC's flagship technology show, broadcast to over 300 million viewers worldwide, as well as on network television here in the UK.

Come on, let's face it - we all do (ok, most of us!). In a few weeks time we're running a feature about you - the teens who are defining the next generation of web users and content.

If you're an active user of one of the rapidly expanding pool of social networking sites, we'd like to hear from you - on the benefits and pitfalls of being part of the latest online craze."

See here for the rest of the article.