August 2026 · Willow Glen Downtown

Make the Ordinary Extraordinary

A street-photography safari about finding story, structure, and feeling in everyday life.

Overall winner

Tyler Bruner

Challenge gallery

Make one frame that invites the viewer to imagine what came before and what comes next.

Find visual structure inside a busy scene and organize it into a deliberate frame.

Make a photograph whose feeling arrives before its explanation.

Field guide

Watch for relationships between people, gestures, expressions, and background details. Build the frame around a moment rather than an object.

Choose a clear anchor, simplify the edges, and use repetition, layers, or timing to turn clutter into rhythm.

Look for tension, tenderness, isolation, humor, or contradiction. Let light, distance, gesture, and timing carry the emotion.