The TP 52 - 2025 The List of Themes & Techniques

[lindsay]

With a lot of help from @Kell and his AI assistant (!), here are the draft themes and techniques for the 2025-52. I'm leaving the thread open for a very short while for any additional suggestions on techniques in particular, and will update this post if I decide to take up any suggestions.

Techniques:

High Dynamic Range
Wide Angle
Negative Space
Black & White
High Key
Panorama
Long Exposure
Paired Images


Themes:

Above
Abstract
After the Rain
Anger
Animals
Arch(ing)
Autumn Colours
Back (of)
Bark
Barn
Birds
Bizarre
Body Part
Bokeh
Broken
Bump ( big or small)
Camouflage(d)
Circles
Clear
Cold
Colour Pop
Columns
Contrasts
Dark
Decorations
Deserted
Digital age
Emotion(al)
Enormous
Entertaining
Expressive
Eye
Fetes & Festivals
Figures
Fire
Flora
flow
Food Photography
Freedom
Frivolous
Geometric
Golden Hour
Graffiti
Green space
Grow
Hands
Happiness
Hatch
Heavy
High Contrast
hold / held
Horizontal
Ice / Icy
Idyllic
In the Wild
Industrial
Insects
Iron
Keys
Lazy
Light and Dark
Mineral
Minimalism
Morning Light
Movement
New
News / topical
Night Photography
Old vs New
Ordered(ed)
Past
Pattern
Pets
Piece (of)
Pleasurable
Portraits
Precision
Progress
Refined Detail
Reflections
Reflections in Glass
Rustic
Seasons
Shadows
Shapes
Sign(s)
Silhouettes
Slim
Speed
Sprawling
Stairs
Static
Steep
Still Life
Street Photography
Street Signs and Symbols
Summer
Symmetry
Tall
Telling a Story
Texture
Textures in Nature
Textures of the Urban Environment
The Unexpected
Through a Window
Timeless
Toys & Miniatures
transport
Underwater or Wet
Urban Life
Vertical
Vibrant
Vulnerable
Wildlife
Wintry
Young
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