MINI-CHALLENGE #295: The Back Side

lkbart

This mini should show people unidentifiable with facial recognition technology doing people things in a nice setting. Lots of different examples below.
Bonus points if you make me laugh!

This mini will stay open until Sunday, February 2, at 12:00pm (UTC-5).
EDIT: This mini will stay open until Monday, February 3, at 12:00pm (UTC-5).

Examples:












It's all a walk on the beach, right?!

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2. The host supplies a topic and you post 1-3 images. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter.
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DavidRGillespie

Great Subject for a mini, @lkbart, Lillian. Here are three, but please don't consider these as entries. We are off on an adventure in early February.

1. An early winter ride

2. Done for the day

3. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" (Edgar Allen Poe).

Cavalier

Well, here's a different mini subject! Thanks Lillian! Here are my entries.

Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, Blacksmith Shop

Harvest Dancers, Lincoln, Ca

Getting ready for the County Fair - making sure all the tents are clean. Mariposa, Ca.

grandmaR

Great idea - I don't know if these will make you smile, but I picked with that in mind.

1. Window sitter - Amsterdam

2. Great Sand Dunes in Colorado

3. Parasailing - St Barts.

RalphMoon

1. Lighting a Candle

2. Visitor, Billy Monk Exhibit

3. Heading Home

lkbart

Great entries! Keep 'em coming!

JAG

Creative thinking on this challenge Lillian!

1 A cluster of Bobbies in London

2 Heading into the unknown

3 Sisters on a bridge in London

slpollett

I seem to have a lot of pictures of my daughter facing the other way, but I tried to find something that wasn't my daugher, lol.

1. Happy to be finished with her Master's degree
   

2. Friends
   

3. Laying the wreath (Many volunteers help place wreaths at the Veteran's cemetery every year.)
   

Sherry P.

bfluegie

I usually try to avoid having people in my photos, so I really had to hunt for these.
1. Looking at infinity

2. Directing the waves
   

3. Autumn walk along Brandywine Creek
   

Oh, and definitely NOT an entry, but rather an attempt to generate laughter, here's an accidental shot...

Well, you did say "backside" Lillian...

pegelli

Splendid theme!
As they say in German: "Ein schöner Rücken kann entzücken"

1: Relaxed

2: Going fishing

3: Hard at work

lkbart

All great entries, & all hitting the theme perfectly! Love the accidental shot - yes worth a laugh! And love the quote too (thanks partly to Google Translate!) - Beautiful backs sure can delight!!

There's another full week to enter! Have fun!

kurzvorzwoelf

Great theme! I'm participating, and I even have some recent pics to go along

1. Typing or sleeping? You decide.

2. Kung-Fu fighting (I was trying to get a picture of the Bruce Lee statue in Hong Kong, but people kept doing weird things in front of it, so I started taking pictures of people doing weird things in front of the Bruce Lee statue)

3. Papers please - I guess this one won't make you laugh, but I also guess that face recognition tech would have a hard time on this one.

Third_Son

Hey all!

I finally got the ability to post images....! My wife an I like to explore lighthouses in Michigan. We got to Grand Haven just as the sun was setting...
Fuji X-T2 and 55-200mm lens.

Lab_Tested

Hello Everyone. I'm a new person here who is looking forward to posting some photos in the challenges. If I am lucky enough to be granted picture access by Feb. 2, I shall participate. If later, maybe the next one.

shawnc

Welcome, look forward to your participation.

sarasphotos

Finally got the time to sort through and find a few entry candidates - coincidentally all taken during bicycle trips to France.

1) What's the catch? In a costal town in southern Brittany, these three boys were tossing their net over and waiting for it to fill with little fish (sardines, I think), which they expertly gutted and filleted on the cement wall of the pier.

2) Freedom On a warm afternoon in Bordeaux, the "Miroir d'eau" is filled with people of all ages playing in the water.

3) Evening serenade We were sitting on the terrace of a nearby restaurant and I popped on the long zoom to snap this.

This one's not for consideration but for a chuckle (I couldn't get the whole lion in because people kept walking into the frame.)
Three lions in Venice, Piazza San Marco

Lab_Tested

Hello everyone. I'm happy to participate in my first mini-challenge.

1) Sunset on the Mediterranean.

2) Cycling up Fremont Pass in Colorado a few years ago.

3) You don't always know if another photographer is using you as a subject.

(Now to see if the images post.)

lkbart

These are all fabulous entries! Welcome to the minis @Third_Son and @Lab_Tested - great to have you both and excellent entries! And thanks for the chuckle Sara!

On another note, I'm going to extend the end of this mini 24 hours, until Monday at noon - I hope that's okay. Ended up scheduling a headshot tomorrow afternoon, then the Super Bowl (GO CHIEFS!!!), just finished year end tax reports (am a bookkeeper in another life lol), I need a bit of time to regroup. That will also give me some time to jot notes to help with judging.

SO MANY GREAT ENTRIES! There's still another day & a half to enter!

Third_Son

Here is another entry from Prague on a rainy day....thank you @lkbart

Fuji X-T20; XF 10-24mm f/4

sapphire73

I don't have access to my computer just now, but have two photos to share just for fun - not as entries. Thanks. Great idea for a mini!

1) My Shadow

2) Sunset Safari (taken with cell phone)

lkbart

This mini is now closed! Thanks for all the great entries & participation - you've made my job quite tough! Will post results tomorrow.