Well I think Egidio from Through Brazilian Eyes really has picked the perfect challenge for me this week and when I saw it I knew it was one I could do with ease.
SILENCE
Really, my own work has always been about silencing the world around me, especially the city. I am ADD, I don’t think I’m ADHD because I’m not really hyper, but I do suffer from attention deficit and often find it hard to concentrate on things.
My head goes a million miles an hour sometimes and what I try to do is quiet it down. It isn’t easy. I have been trying to remove people from my images for as long as I can remember, I want to remove the noise from them. A city with no people is so quiet and you can hear the silence. So it is only in the last few years that I have figured out why I want to do that and create images like that.
To me the following images are more my real artwork and the images are among some of the ones I’m most proud off.
So please take a look and see if you can hear the sound of silence in them too.
I would like to thank Egidio for this challenge, I feel peaceful and quiet as I look back on these images. It was a great one for me.
Please go and take a look at his post, the link is at the top of this post.
If you would like to participate in this great challenge then go to the following to find out how to join the Lens-Artists Challenge, click here for more info. Don’t forget to put a link in your post back to the host.
Yes! Silence……shhhhhhĥ!.
Shhh, silence please. In a whisper, thank you Geoff.
Beautiful examples, Leanne! I used to try to shoot when no one was around. I’ve more recently started to include people. But silence is the topic, so I’ll be quiet now. >grin<
Thank you John. It is hard to find places with no one around, that’s for sure. I still hate people in my shots, I have this idea that if people are in them, then the image is more about them. Just my view. lol.
Your photos are so beautiful and crisp!
Thank you so much Aletta.
Your shots are beautiful. Hauntingly so. 1 + 2 were my faves, but then I said as much for all of them. I love the silence too, for different reasons. However, I wonder if the eeriness of an empty city, is what makes the silence here feel so loud!
Thank you Dionne. I don’t know, I think it is different for everyone.
Oh, yes. Between your first two ones is hard to choose and then it still feels so, so quiet. It’s your artistry at editing, Leanne.
Thank you Sofia, it is something I’ve been working on for years.
The light in your images is beautiful, as usual. These empty city streets remind me of Covid lockdowns! How do you achieve this? Do you visit at times you know the places will be this quiet or do you edit out any people that stray into the shots? I think it would be impossible to find anywhere in London this empty, even at three in the morning!
It is hard to do to get no people at all, best time to get that is very very early in the morning, especially Sunday mornings. I tend to pick places where lots of people don’t always go as well. Long exposures really help too, as long as people don’t stop you can get those types of images. I also remove people where I can. Taking lots of the same images can help with that too. Thank you Sarah.
Oh, I like the images, and the concept, very much! The power of silence, indeed. Silence does speak, if we bother to listen.
I think so too Penny, silence can be very loud. Thank you.
Beautiful post Leanne!! Your photos are perfect for the theme!!
Thank you Nora, I thought they would be.
Love the silence of the city
Me too, thank you Brian.
Leanne, I’m so happy I was able to bring you peace and quiet with this challenge. Your stunning photos certainly brought me the same feelings. Fantastic gallery!
YOu certainly did Egidio. Thank you so much.
You’re right, Leanne. This subject is right up your street. And how clever to chose a big, brash modern city to illustrate it for you. And so successfully. Yes, I have noticed the absence of people in your city shots- so at variance with what most of us do. In your hands, it really works.
Thank you Margaret. I think it works really well with a city. I like it without, I like how you then focus on the architecture.
Beautifully done Leanne, and no surprise. I’ve often noticed the quiet that your images evoke. A perfect challenge for you!
Thank you Tina, that’s good to hear that you have noticed it, something I love doing.
These images are beautiful and peaceful too, Leanne. No people means less noise. Why are humans such a noisy lot? ❤️
I don’t know why either John, they really can be. Thank you so much John.
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A little eerie but fascinating. They look like ghost towns. Uninhabited and still. Wonderful images.
A world with no people, I like that idea sometimes, and other times it scares the heck out of me. Thank you Donna.
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This challenge was most definitely made for you, Leanne! And, funny thing, when you said you removed people from your images–it just dawned on me that I don’t recall ever seeing people in your photos. Strange that it took you saying that for me to realize it.
I thought so Lois. Yeah, I do my best to either photograph with no people, or remove them if I can. Probably never thought about it, that’s okay, thank you Lois.
Nice post 🌺🌺
Thank you Satyam.
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These are so beautiful. Melbourne looks like a city asleep. Your one sunrise is amazing. Your city is just waking up.
Thank you Anne, I like Melbourne like that.