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May 6, 2018May 3, 2018

Share Six Blog Circle – May 2018 | Urban

Another month has been and gone, and here in New England Spring has finally landed! What better excuse to get out and about in glorious weather than a street photography theme. This month at Share Six we want to see your best {Urban} images.

It’s been a busy month round here so I’ve not been able to shoot specifically for this theme. Looking through my archives, it turns out I don’t really do Urban anything! I’ve always told my husband that I want to live in the country, whereas he’d be totally happy in the city with all of its hustle and bustle, but my photographs tell me that I’m supposed to be surrounded by nature. And photography wins, so there you have it, rural-living wins!

Anyway, I digress. I do love street photography, I just don’t seem to do it a whole lot. So I’ve had to dig far far back to find a variety and images I’ve not shared before. Here a few of my favourites from the past few years and a couple from even further back. You may have seen some of couple of them before, and for that I make no apologies.

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California > Phoenix > Venice > New York > London > Dallas

I took the image of the Houses of Parliament in 2014, but it’s taken me 4 years to process it. I had only just started shooting manual (literally two days before) and we went on a special evening trip into London so I could experiment with shutter speed. How I long to be there to apply all that I know now! Perhaps this summer I can make that happen?!

There are so many options with this theme: details, cityscapes, documentary and creative techniques. We want to see it all!

Thank you for joining us for another month at Share Six. Please continue around the circle by clicking HERE. I can’t wait to see how the exceptionally talented Nicola of Nicola MacQueen Photography interpreted this month’s theme.

Join us for this month’s theme by posting your {Urban} images on our Facebook page at SHARE SIX and to our Instagram gallery, by tagging #sharesix and #sharesix_urban. A new theme will be posted on 6th June.

December 13, 2016December 13, 2016

Artists Inspired Blog Circle | December 2016 – White

Roosevelt Row Street Photography | Scottsdale Photographer ©CeriHerdPhotography2016

What does {White} mean to you? White in December…it has to be Winter! Snowmen and snowflakes. Thick crunchy frost underfoot glistening in the early morning sunshine. Cold. A deep down cold in your bones winter chill.

But I live in central Arizona. The valley of the sun. If we get frost here it’ll be melted by the time I get out of bed. If we get snow here it will be a light dusting on the surrounding mountains once a year and it’ll be a headline on the major news reports. But if we take the weather conditions out of the equation {white} says “outside”, so for this month’s blog circle I’m going to get out and about. White street photography is where I’ll be at.

I decided to take images specifically for this blog rather than revisit my archives. Truth be told I wanted an excuse to visit a part of downtown Phoenix that I’d heard was great for photographers: Roosevelt Row. Oh boy, I was not disappointed! There is so much colour, so much visual interest; there is art on every single building, every street corner. I could go back time and time again and always find something new. Take a look at what I found…

Wouldn’t it make an awesome location for a photo session – families, kids, seniors, all of it! First person to book a session with me here gets their session fee waived!

This blog is part of the Artists Inspired Blog Circle series. Click here to continue the circle and see how talented photographer, Channon Williamson, interpreted this month’s theme. Be sure to follow the links all the way round to complete the full circle.

The Artists Inspired Blog Circle is made up of an exceptionally talented group of photographers from all walks of life, from all over the world. They are wives, mothers, friends, daughters and visual storytellers who draw from their own experiences to create art that is inspiring, unique, beautiful and thought-provoking.

October 30, 2016March 20, 2018

{Inspired by…} | Scottsdale Photographer

To be {inspired by…} great photographers is not to imitate; it is not to impersonate. It is to look at their art, to soak it in, to think about their thought processes and let those guide you in yours. It is not to copy but to allow your style to be influenced and to open your eyes to new possibilities.

By HeArt, a wonderful online community of photographers, hosted an entire month of {inspired by} themes. I was so inspired, I felt compelled to put my submissions into a blog post. So here it is!

Francesca Woodman ~ Francesca Stern Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models [Wikipedia].

Influenced by Francesca Woodman — Inspired by Francesca Woodman

Check out the winners for this theme (not mine, but the winners truly are stunning) here.

Imogen Cunningham ~ Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes [website].

Inspired by Imogen Cunningham Theme Winner

See all winners for this theme here.

Ansel Adams ~ Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and books [website].

Check out the winners for this theme (again, not mine but the winners are inspiring in their own right) here.

Henri Cartier-Besson ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and conceived of photography as capturing a decisive moment [Wikipedia].

Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson, theme winner

See all the theme winners here.

I hope you enjoyed this look through a month of my image submissions. People often ask what the benefits are for submitting to By HeArt, other Facebook-based communities and their weekly competitions. To them I say this: researching and studying these photographers has given my own work a new lease on life, I have been inspired to try new things, I have found a new method and a new confidence for creating for black and white images. These pages are integral to my photographic and artistic development. They push me to be the best that I can be. I will be forever grateful to these pages for their support, their encouragement and the inspiration that they provide.

Love~ Ceri