Lens-Artists Challenge #371 – Street Details

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I’m always drawn to these old scooters. Despite how this looks the scooter was still being used on a daily basis around the Greek island of Rhodes.

Ritva hosts this weeks challenge. You can find her original challenge post here – Lens-Artists Challenge #371 – Street Details

I do enjoy street photography. Just going out for a walk with my camera is my happy photography place. I wasn’t sure where to take this when I initially saw the challenge. I explained to my wife what it was all about and she said to me “Why are you struggling with this? You’re always taking pictures of things that make other people watching you wonder what the hell you’re doing”.

That’s true enough. I’ve grown a thickish skin to that these days but I do know people sometimes watch me thinking ‘why is he photographing that?’

I took this purely because of this ladies hat. I’m one of those people who see faces in everyday objects and I saw one on this hat. I have a whole collection of faces pics somewhere but I couldn’t find them for the challenge.

The trouble is my pic filing system doesn’t have a – ‘What the hell is he photographing that for’ – section. I tend to keep all my stock in yearly files but everything else just stays uncatalogued so finding some of these shots, taken over the last eighteen years, is impossible. I now keep a blog folder for my random, non stock images so things will improve.

I’m going to follow Ritva’s example and stop writing at this point. I’ll explain the images I’m including in their picture captions. I hope you enjoy them 🙂

I’m always grabbing pics of old garage doors or other interesting textures like these. I print them, using matt paper, on my A3 printer and use them as backdrops or false table tops for some of my food photography.
I like an entertaining sign. This made us smile.
Not quite on the street but I did take this on a beach walk. It was one random rock left to the side of the steps down to the beach.
Charity shop donations left outside of a charity shop despite the large notice written of the shops door glass. They were open at the time and these appeared during the ten minutes we were in the shop.
I’ve lost count of how many ‘Love Locks’ I’ve photographed. I’m always drawn to them. Here’s another one taken a few weeks ago. That black door was also shot for one of my backdrop images.
All these bears are thinking ‘Why the hell is he photographing us?’
Some random dead weeds – Don’t ask, I’ve no idea why I took this but oddly, I really like it.
I stumbled across this scene in May. It was at the back of a beach in Rhodes and, environmental issues aside, we laughed joking that it must have been some drinking session! You’ll be pleased to know we were back there last week and it had all been cleared away.

Thank you to Ritva for hosting this weeks challenge. If you’d like to know more about the Lens-Artists Challenge, please click here.

All images: ©Stephen Hyde 2007-2025 – All rights reserved.

30 thoughts on “Lens-Artists Challenge #371 – Street Details”

  2. Excellent collection, Steve. Despite not being able to actually see the scooter, the Vespa name is so recognizable. That was my favorite shot in your beautiful gallery.

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    • Thank you Egidio, I do have pictures of that scooter. Its a proper workman’s scooter normally packed up with decorators rollers and a large plastic tub on the footplate 🙂

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