WEEK 46: Faces without People

This week’s challenge should be fun, creative, and perhaps a bit silly. The goal is to photograph a face (or anything that looks like a face) with only one restriction: You may not have any people in your photo. Anything else is fair game: Animals, stuffed toys, statues, artwork, or even inanimate objects that just happen to look like faces. The goal is to take something non-human, and show off its human-like qualities. For this week, you are encouraged to be silly and have fun– The more unusual or creative your subject the better.

As always, let’s take a look at some examples:

Sassy Portrait – Ramiro Ramirez

Pets or other animals are a great option for this week’s challenge. I particularly liked this photo, as the dog seems to have a big ol’ smile on her face. Even though the dog isn’t human, her expression seems to have human-like qualities.

Face from Lachine – Michel Filion

Statues or other artwork are another great option for this week. Photograph your favorite statue, painting, or even graffiti– as long as it has a face.

Smile! – Adam Greig

I can’t help but smile when looking at this photo. Even though it’s just a bunch of plants, you can see a very obvious (and amusing) face.

Hello! – debcha

One of my favorite options for this week involves Pareidolia– where we perceive an inanimate object as having a face, when it really doesn’t. Even though the image above is just an ordinary electrical outlet, we very clearly see a human-looking face.

Here’s another, similar example, using a wooden crate:

Lifeless Face #055 – NottsExMiner

The Challenge

For this week’s challenge, your goal is to photograph a face– or anything that happens to look like a face– using anything except a human as your subject. As noted above, anything else is fair game, including animals, nature, man-made objects, art, or anything else you find. Ideally, we’re looking to take something non-human and make it appear to have human like features.

Creative, out-of-the-box ideas are always allowed and encouraged. Get your camera, be creative, and have fun!

The friendly community guidelines are pretty simple:

Post one original photograph to our active community on our Facebook Group, Flickr Group or 500PX group (or all three). Tag the photo: #10thanniversaryphotochallenge #2018photochallenge #photochallenge #tempusaura
The shot should be a new shot you took this week, for the current weekly theme, not something from your back catalog or someone else’s image.
Don’t leave home without your camera. Participating in the 2018 Trevor Carpenter Photo Challenge is fun and easy.

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