Ricoh's serious compacts have a distinictive quality to them for which one word immediately springs to mind: unassuming. Surely a camera doesn't make a photo – it is the photographer's spirit that does – but as birds of a feature flock together, several of the GRDs and GXs users whom I as a stranger spoke to on the street had some similar quality of modesty. Such a character was also reflected in their images too.
As I browsed the gallery put together by Ricoh with works selected from different Ricoh users (accessible by clicking the above picture), I found the same thing threading through the selected works – unassuming as well as humanistic.
The reason I spoke on this topic is that the 10th Ricoh Photo Contest is on. We may get our Ricoh cameras and do some good shots. But how about starting from making a list of the winning elements? I have briefly looked through the winning entries of the previous contests, and came to one conclusion: the winning photos mark a humanistic quality which I will relate to words like petite, everydayness, calmness, household, environment, commonplace and, of course, unassuming.
Good luck!
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