Weekly Challenge 102: Easter

Holy Week has begun and leaves us with a lot of snapshots worthy of immortalizing, I challenge you to send us one of them.

How does it work? (Reminder)

Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photograph and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog, putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. The themes will be varied, from portraits to Macro photography, through landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. The topics will be proposed on Saturdays, so that you have all the Weekend to work them. You will have one week to upload your photograph (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. On Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that has captivated me the most and I will propose a new topic, and so on…

Weekly Challenge 102: Easter

You can feel it or not, believe it or not, but there is no doubt that Holy Week is an excellent setting to photograph, as it leaves us with endless interesting images. It is up to you to see them and know how to capture them, but as I am sure you will know how to do it, I challenge you to send us a photograph of how this festival is celebrated in your land, or in the place where you travel on vacation, or from that place to which you traveled that time and whose Holy Week impacted you and of which you are so proud.

Try to capture the passion that surrounds those days, the fervor of the costaleros who with so much effort carry their image, that of the devotees admiring their Christ with tears in their eyes or the amazed look of that child who still does not understand anything but who observes in awe the spectacle. A detail, a complete view of the procession… it doesn’t matter, what matters is that you make your audience vibrate and make their hair look like spikes just as they would make you if at three in the morning there was absolute silence in the middle of the street will be broken by a wonderful voice intoning an arrow, because you will not tell me that, whether you are religious or not, it does not excite… 😉

As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge upload your photo to the Facebook wall from the Photographer’s Blog: In the description of the photo please mention the keyword “Holy Week” followed by a title of your choice.

Alternative Means to Participate

For those who do not be from Facebook I have enabled new social networks to participate.

• Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #ChallengeEasterBdF

Happy photography.

Update

While I listen to the drums in the background and the aroma of incense reaches me, I leave you this summary gallery of your Holy Week photos. Thank you once again for your collaboration 😉

The photograph that I want to highlight this week (and Santa) is that of Inés Morales. “Sharing emotions” is a story told in a beautiful image. A moment of traditions passed down from father to son, of emotions shared between them and between the devotees of Christ that can be sensed in the background thanks to a fantastic Bokeh effect that emphasizes the mystery that surrounds Holy Week. The soft contrast treatment emphasizes the sweetness and tenderness of the snapshot. A boy who experiences the processions for the first time hugging his father. I like the timelessness of black and white and I love that the image of Holy Week is so present in such a subtle way, through a blurred silhouette that, despite this, takes on enormous strength in photography. Congratulations Inés for this beautiful photograph!