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Imagine a switch to photos shot in the context of a communication message. Email: Hans @ Switch.

Hello Hans and Guy,
Week 5 Photos were extremely fantastic!!!!
Thanks a lot guys. Your website is getting nicer and nicer by the day.
We can't wait to see more of those joyous street life photos.
They are such a beauty!!!
Sunny greetings from Africa,
Edgar Kyeyune

Week 05 2011,
from January 31

Photos are freeze frames from the movie we like watching.

Between Arizona and Nevada nowadays lies the Hoover Dam Bridge,
photographed when it was constructed by Rodrigo Tecelão.

First round, four more to go.
Guy

First backpaker.
Guy

They're almost back!

Pink City Cadillac.

"There's the park, we're almost home."

"They're out of sight!"

"And there's the press!"

John Breed
on a pedestal.

Sunday.
"Still a long way to Ibiza, isn't it?"
Photo: Vincenç

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

Sun setting on the Zuidas.

Photographing the anti-Mubarak demonstration.
Guy

"No pictures, or I'll destroy your camera!"
Guy

Roof came down.
Guy

Ramsj in De Duif.
Guy

The Dam.
Guy

New in the Martyrium bookshop.

DS Break.

DS3.

Interesting.

"Interesting."

Shane and Johara asked where they could find the interesting shops.

Tijn's got a camera!

This photo of the late Koen Wessing was made by Joost Guntenaar in 1995 for a series with the theme “Colleages Without Film” - 25 photographers who at the time didn’t believe in digital cameras. Koen was a colorful concerned people photographer and well known for his black and white photos he made all over the world.

Hotel staff take journalists’ camaras in Cairo. Meredith Birkett writes: Photojournalist Ron Haviv spent the day photographing the clashes in and around Tahrir Square in Cairo, working despite many reports of journalist being arrested, or worse, being attacked and having gear smashed by protesters or police. He said he was able to keep working by trying to avoid anyone who looked like an authority figure. Haviv managed to leave the square safely by traveling in a pack of anti-government protesters, who helped him avoid being singled out by pro-government groups. Pro-government forces have been attacking journalists based on a perception that the media is sympathetic to the anti-government side. He arrived safely at his hotel, but that’s when trouble began. The hotel staff took his camera gear, and the equipment of other journalists staying in the hotel. The hotel staffers said they were instituting a new policy that does not allow anyone to photograph from the building's balconies. Despite the challenges, Haviv filed images from today. But will he work tomorrow? It’s not clear when or if he’ll get his gear back. Source.

Saturday.
"Please stop crying,
in the next village you may sit in front."
Photo: Vincenç

No barricades.
Guy

"I really look forward to seeing it all in Ams."
"The airport we just departed from was Amsterdam."
Guy

"I don't see no terrace."
Guy

"It's your turn Frank."
Guy

Profits.
Guy

"A wonderful meet!"
Max Carpedi

PiCycle: the hybrid electric bicycle with embedded Wi-Fi technology.
Combining an electric motor with a form factor that has remained largely unchanged for over a hundred years, hybrid electric bicycles make it easier to get around in an environmentally friendly way, while still providing some much needed exercise. One of the most distinctive electric bikes going around is the PiCycle. The latest model from Pi Mobility retains the instantly recognizable arch frame of its predecessor, but has been simplified even further and now offers the option of integrated Wi-Fi-based technology to remotely monitor the 2011 PiCycle’s performance and track the bike if it is stolen. More.

Floating megacity designed for the banks of the Mississippi.
Arcologies, which are essentially entire cities crammed into a single high population density megastructure, are still the realm of science fiction – or games such as Simcity. But with the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina ongoing, a group of designers have come up with the proposal for just such a structure designed to sit on the bank of the Mississippi. Called the New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH), the structure would house 40,000 residents along with all services and amenities that would allow them to live their entire lives within its walls if they so desired. More.

Providence Rhode Island disappeared behind the snow snene.
Lewis

Friday.
"I just heard that it's cold in Holland with fierce gusts of wind."
Photo: Vincenç

Inge de Bruijn is also back!
Guy

Furs are back!
Guy

Victoria Koblenko presented the
new Talkies.
Guy

Ne me quitte pas...

M. Carpedi ontdekte een sloperij ergens in het zuiden van Frankrijk.
Ooit glimmende voitures lijken hier achteloos te zijn achtergelaten door
hun voormalige eigenaars. Overgelaten aan de elementen
en met slechts schapen als gezelschap.

Flowers or no flowers?

Sideride.

No rain today.
Guy

A good day today for a trial roll-out.
Guy

"Should have been solid red."
Guy

"I'm off to the Heinekenplein."
Guy

The new Electric Green Wheels were said to be inaugurated
at 14:00 hours, but this lasted longer than the patience of many press photographers,
who set off to meet on the Heinekenplein.

Less cold today.

Jolly mood.

Headstart.

It's not yet been disclosed what they are promoting.

Ford GT returns as hybrid! Ford's new supercar features V8 hybrid drivetrain and will take on McLaren and Ferrari - but cost less than both.

It’s take three for the Ford GT! Auto Express has learned that the blue oval is readying an all-new mid-engined supercar – and it’s set to feature hybrid power. The model follows on from the original Sixties GT40, as well as the GT, built between 2005 and 2006. It will take aim at Ferrari, Lamborghini and McLaren by using the most advanced technology available to deliver massive straight-line performance. And our exclusive images predict how the Detroit missile is shaping up. In a bid to distance the new model from the 2005 GT, of which only 100 examples reached Europe, there will be a new design direction. While the GT used plenty of styling cues from the original GT40 racer of the Sixties, the latest interpretation is likely to forego the retro body panels and get a sharper, more modern look. More.

Thursday.
Ha, ha, ha, all the way!
Photo: Vincenç

Photo: Guy

The London Street Photography Festival takes place over 10 days (7-17 July) with a diverse programme of exhibitions, events, talks, walks and workshops. We have recently published our planned schedule on the website which includes the first UK exhibition of Vivian Maier.
http://londonstreetphotographyfestival.org/whats-on

I hope you are as excited by our festival as we are and we hope that you will take part or visit during July. We would really appreciate you helping spread the word of our Street Photography Awards on your blog. Do you think that is possible?

International Award. The International Street Photography Award is open to all photographers, anywhere in the world. The winner will receive £1,000 plus an all-expenses paid trip to the festival's opening night in London - a fantastic opportunity for any photographer to take advantage of the festival's activities, network and to promote their work.
Deadline: 31 March 2011 Info: Marion Robion

"Mam. I wanna be captain when I've grown up."
Guy

"It's still too cold!"
Guy

Sale!
Guy

Bagels also here.
Guy

Westertoren.
Guy

The Acabion GTBO 450 km/h road registerable streamliner.
Bugatti Veyron owners, and indeed car owners as a group, have been looking very smug since the amazing supercar posted its awesome 250mph top speed and 1000 horsepower acceleration that not even the fastest motorcycles could match. But it seems Acabion has taken the crown back for the bike brigade, with its release of a road-ready streamliner that's capable of beating they Veyron's top speed using only 20% throttle. The Acabion GTBO is said to top out at around 340mph (close to 550kmh) if you're game enough to hold on to 50% throttle, and with engines varying from 350 to 750 horsepower, it's a very serious piece of kit... Even if it does have training wheels. More.

Gas cap as an afterthought.

Same proper Roller as on Monday..

Flashy Zsa Zsa and her new striking Tomos.

Thinking of Ibiza.

Wednesday.
Wednesday already, time flies.
Photo: Vincenç

Angels from Los Angeles.
Guy

Damn Mubarak!
Guy

All under control.
Guy

We drive the Volkswagen XL1 - world’s most economical car -
to see what it feels like to return 313mpg.

By Mike Rutherford

It’s the world’s most efficient car – and Auto Express has driven it! Revealed at the Qatar Motor Show, the quirky, low-slung VW XL1 gets gullwing doors, a two-cylinder turbodiesel engine and a 20kW electric motor.
With rear wheel covers, an F1-style carbon fibre monocoque, and other ultra-lightweight materials such as magnesium wheels, it’s meant to show how economical cars can be, boasting 300mpg-capability. But what’s it like to drive? Open the gullwing door and you sit very low in the cabin. However, that’s not an issue because the driving seat and steering wheel positions are spot-on.
The overall look and feel of the XL1’s less-is-more cabin is beyond VW’s usually high standards, though. Press the logically positioned start button and the car’s heart silently starts to beat without indicating to the driver that it is doing so. Pulse starting, VW calls it.
Slide the gearstick back as far as possible while nervously tickling the accelerator pedal, and the car launches itself with more vigour than it has a right to in view of its undeniably modest powerplants. A combination of virtually silent running, futuristic supercar styling and unprecedented on-road presence stops bewildered pedestrians and fellow drivers in their tracks.
More.

Tuesday, February 1st.
"How lovely, let's drive to Ibiza!"
Photo: Vincenç

"Yes, it's taken us quite a long way to come this far."
Guy

Our last snow was nearly ten days ago... the piles of plowed snow remain. So, yesterday I climbed the drifts and walked over to look at the state of the art on display at the Rhode Island dealers auto show. Pretty much as I expected (no concept cars, no exotics). Lewis