A Splendid Ugliness

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About A Splendid Ugliness

For those damn fine pictures that will never qualify for Flickr's shiny, obvious, banal 'interestingness' page. Pictures that real people might class as interesting, rather than conforming to some mechanical formula of interestingness.

Give us your bleak, your surprising, your unusual photos. Give us the ones that mean a lot to you. Give us the ones that you're glad you got to take, no matter what anyone else says.

There shall be no room here for bright, polished sunrises or smiling barefoot orphans, perfectly lit landmarks or shimmering lakes.

Some rules:

1: We like fancy pictures, it's true. We try (and fail) to take some ourselves. But there are a million groups for loveliness out there, so WE DO NOT WANT THEM.

2: That's not to say we want boring pictures. Just ones that don't conform to Flickr's interestingness test, but do fit your own, human view of what's interesting.

What YOU class as interesting is, of course, entirely up to you.

3: We positively welcome people without a fancy camera. We know (from personal experience) that sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't get the thing to focus quite right. But if you're shooting something interesting, technical limitations should not mean everyone ignores you.

4: If you can imagine your picture on the living room wall of some middle class suburban home, go away.

5: We're going to be picky about photos of people. No posing, no porn, no famous people, no portraits of yer mates. Pictures of ordinary people going about their ordinary lives are fine.