September 2026 Photo Contest Discussion Thread: "The Street as a Livelihood" (page 3 of 12)

The photo you mentioned is still on VF ;P

The photo you mentioned is still on VF 😛

... and it suggests more than it shows.

I really love this photo:

I had no idea you had to pay to play a game of chess on the street in New York 😲

Agnès reminded me of this... but it's still way off-topic 😏 (you can only see the vendor's arm on the steering wheel!)

In the same vein (off-topic, but I don’t have much better) A gas station in Bali (Amed) ... with no attendant

Or a phone operator with only the customer (Rangoon)

Here you can really see we're in the street ;) In Rangoon.

In a Saxon village in Transylvania, one way for the Roma to earn a little money is by guiding tourists around.

I really love this photo:



Thanks Muriel, one of the few portraits I’ve taken 😊

I didn’t know you had to pay to play chess on the street in New York 😲

It’s their livelihood. Normally, photos are forbidden, but we paid a little extra to take this one 😅

It’s literally their livelihood in more ways than one.

Delivery driver in Kathmandu

Hi there, For the photo contest, can we submit a photo we didn’t take ourselves?! I’ve spotted a black-and-white one that’s a bit old!

Can we submit film photos from the early 2000s that have been lightly edited to enhance the vintage feel?

(A country changes in 25 years... So in 50, like some people’s memories...)

In Tunisia, street vendors selling fuel.

In the photo contest, can we submit a photo we didn’t take ourselves?!

Uh... I don’t know what the usual rules of this photo contest are. I’ve only been participating for a few months, and this is the first time I’m organizing a theme. But before a contest veteran answers this, I’d say no...

Can we submit film photos from the early 2000s that have been lightly edited to enhance the vintage feel?

Uh... I don’t know what the usual rules for this photo contest are. I’ve only been participating for a few months, and this is the first time I’m organizing a theme. But before a contest veteran chimes in, I’d say yes...

You posted the same message twice 😄 (Back-to-school fatigue getting to you, huh?)

I’m not sure if the term "old-timer" fits me quite yet, but since when could we submit a photo that isn’t ours in a photo contest? 🤪 Maybe in the parallel discussion, as long as we credit the author’s name.

Kate, heads up—I posted the same message twice... well, almost!

Djalma thinks I didn’t take the photo I posted because I’m not old enough.

He forgets that places change so quickly that even at 57, you can post photos that look much older.

What about the places we visited in the 70s... 😇

Pagaljavab is playing it safe politically, trying to please everyone with his "neither yes nor no." 😄

Oops, no, sorry 😕

I didn’t say yes or no—I said no to the first question and yes to the second while waiting for expert opinions to confirm.