537th Show & Tell Competition: “Street Portraiture”. The idea is to photograph a person (can be a friend, family, or stranger) in an urban street environment where the persons facial features are clea

[oracle0017]

Judging this theme was more difficult than I anticipated as the entries were all great and showed a wide variety of human emotions and environments. I chose the winning photograph (Jola Dzubinska) secondarily because of image quality/technical merits, but primarily because it had a "are you kidding me?" factor that made me go back and look at it again and again. What do I mean? A photographer (who happens to be Jola's husband) casually holding a Black Cobra while he is being photographed. Casually?? Not me thank you very much! If any photograph can grab my attention like that, it's a winner in my book.

Third place goes to Marisa Livet for "According to the guide it should be London"


Second place goes to Peter Schultz for this great photograph:


And the winner is Jola Dzubinska's "Tomasz with Black Cobra"


Congratulations to the winners and to all who entered for a very challenging competition!

[jolka]

Thank you very much for the First Place, Tomasz and I are honoured. I have to admit I was more scared watching this scene than my husband himself holding a Black Cobra! He survived and me too

[cits_4_pets]

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