On its own , the brick is an unimpressive chunk of mud . Mortared alongside a few thousand of its booster , though , the brick becomes a molecule in the urban ecosystem . Here are 31 photographic ode to the humble brick .
Winner: UCLA
This was choose at UCLA and even though there were so many other interesting thing to shoot . This was a absolved favorite .
tv camera : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi ; Auto Exposure ; Focal length : 43 mm ; lens : EF - S18 - 55 millimetre f/3.5 - 5.6 IS ; aperture : f/5.2
– Troy Ford
Jacob’s Ladder
This is a picture of one of my construction at my college . I set my television camera at hip level and shoot straight up . This made the edifice almost wait like a route that leads to nowhere .
Nikon D3200 , 18 - 55 DX lens system ; f/10 ; 1/60 shutter speed ; 200 ISO ; 18 mm
– Nicholas Shirley
49 Street
I am spending one week in NY and it was a “ lovely ” raining day , OK , let me give up squawk because I am in NY for God ’s sake !
wait for a train at the 49th street place seemed a complete chance for a brick shooting , so here it is .
– Alecio De Paula
Beverly Blvd.
For this photograph I used a 35 mm Nikon Nikor lens(ISO 1600 , f/2 ) , the shot was take on Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles at night . When I translate about the shooting challenge with brick I had a location in idea to take some shots . I got some ok photos there , but when I was walking back I make out across this huge brick wall and was inhale to show how the brick seemed to be endlessly stacked on top of one another toward the sky until they become impossible to distinguish from one another .
– Andrew Knaup
Reflected Brick
A friend and I relish a lovely fountain day in Old Town Alexandria , Virginia … I always enjoy capturing the charming computer architecture with my television camera … and recollect the reflection of one brick building in the window of another make an interested layered tone .
canyon Rebel SL1 , f/9 , 1/60
– Cheryl MacLean
Anchor
I found this nail in the side of a brick building in Old Washington , KY . Washington was originally called Kenton Station , and is one of the oldest European settlement in Kentucky . This particular edifice is one of the newer buildings on the street , built in 1829 .
canyon T3 ; 50 mm f/1.8 lense ; shot at f/2 at 1/1600th sec
– Chris Sears
Pothole
Is the building standing or is it lay on the land ? I could be looking up at it or about to walk on it .
Sony RX100 - M2 ; f/4 ; 1/250th ; ISO 160 .
– Costas Kitsos
Ballard Hardware
walk to my elevator car after seeing a howling ignominious Prairie performance in Ballard , I came across this grandiloquent brick construction hulking in the sky .
Panasonic GM1 with the 20 mm f/1.7 lens . 1/30s ( steady on a fence ) , f/1.7 , ISO 2500 . redact in Lightroom and Color Efex Pro 4 .
– David Lee
Arch
I was toying around with unlike ideas all week for this challenge and remembered this plantation owner my grandparents have had in front of their home for longer than I ’ve been animated . A nostalgic manner to portray this workweek ’s subject for me .
Shot with a Sony NEX-5 T , ISO 100 , 19 mm , f/4.0 , 1/800sec . 3 exposures unite together in Photomatix Pro for HDR figure .
– Devin Cheek
Brick Mix
While I was walking I saw this brick / rock wall ( I live nigh to a river , so ancient builders often used rock-and-roll instead of brick ) and I was captured by it ’s regular convention go on and on , brick / rock / brick pieces / rock’n’roll / brick .
Shot with Nokia Lumia 925 , with ProShot app .
– Francesco Lorenzin
Pre-War Buildings
A guest of mine endure in a building on West 86th Street between West End and riverbank , and whenever I visit I always marvel at the rampart of pre - war building stacked alongside each other with each a unique earthy color . By my amateur idea no other Manhattan city block can boast this much brick .
Sony RX-100 f/11 ISO-125 1/80sec
– Gene Li
Salem
There is a lot of brick in Salem , MA . Pictured here is St. James Church , a mighty and shapely brick structure that stand out amid asphalt , Tree , and wood family . On this exceptional day , the view looking up from directly in front of the church , where a celebration had just stop , was inspiring . The brick itself evoke harmoniousness and edification ; while each brick is itself well - formed and important , the greater whole magnifies its splendor .
Equipment : Olympus E - M10 television camera with an Olympus M.Zuiko 9 - 18 mm zoom lens at 9 mm aboriginal ( 18mm - equivalent ) . options : Aperture - priority , f/8 , ISO200 ( Auto ) , 1/1250s , RAW only slightly sue and cropped to a 3:2 expression proportion .
– Gregory Vozzo
Grit
– Jake Jensen
The Classics
The persona was obtained with an iPhone 5S prepare to auto HDR . planetary adjustment made in Snapseed for colouring and contrast . Then the HDR was dial up in autoHDR to spotlight the grain of the brick .
– Jonas Demuro
No Parking
I was n’t design on entering a photo , but on Friday I found myself wandering around in Northampton , Massachusetts – a township with an abundance of brick construction . All I had with me was my Android earphone ( I usually shoot with a Canon 7D ) , so I had to make do with what I had . I take a number of pictures , but this was the best shot I could manage within the time of day of destitute time that I had .
– Joseph Marinelli
Nature Finds A Way
Ever since I moved to Washington , DC , I have been claim with the charming brick sidewalks in historical Georgetown ( though it makes going out in hound extra challenging ! ) . I love how the pasturage creeps up between the bricks in some places , make a innate unripened grout .
The photo was taken with an iPhone 4 and cut only with Instagram ’s Lux effect to highlight the brick ’s porous grain .
– Karelia Pallan
For Years
I ’ve been watch these brick fall apart for class .
Taken with my Sony alpha NEX-6 , edited courtesy of Google .
– Kim Prokosch
Still Standing
Shooting in alleyways and dank corridor – love come across how construction have been retrofitted over sentence and how the cheapest solutions were always the most interesting .
Canon T3i , 1/1000 , f3.5 , 200
– Logan Nickels
Leading Lines
pullulate in the alley outside my building . I like how the lines of the brick row seem to merge together the further down you look .
Shot on Nex6 with 18 - 55 mm lens of the eye , 100 ISO , 1/15 and F22 . Edited for contrast and anatomical structure in Google photo edit .
– Marc Solomon
Bricks on Bricks
Equipment : Canon Rebel T2i ; Shutter Speed 1/200 ; Aperture 5.6 ; ISO 160
– Paul McNiel
Mortar Mess
Well , I had have world-weary with Minecraft for the twenty-four hours , so I decided to get alfresco for a spot . The daughter had just catch base , so we all went . We were walk around in downtown Winslow , AZ , which is full of old buildings from the early 1900 ’s . Some walls had collapsed and were rebuilt . This building was a stripe at one detail in the recent past ( 90 ’s ) . I took some shot at a distance , but I felt that the close injection were honorable . close-fitting - up you could almost experience the textures of the brick and mortar . Since this bulwark is on the north - side of the edifice , it seemed kind of wet and cool . Like the bricks were just laid .
I used my Canon T3i with the 50 millimetre lens system , IS 100 , f/5 , exposure 1/250 . Used gimp to resize to 970 .
– Randall Sahmie
Patio
My mental image was taken with a Nikon 5300 photographic camera , using a macro lens . I compound the vividness and contrast in photoshop constituent using nik package . This shot was taken of a brick patio . I liked how the brick was pass over in small dust that had botch in or fallen from the tree above . There ’s some backbone , pine needles and a piece of string . A piece of woodwind divides the patio bricks . One brick is support up .
– Suzanne Mallory
Another Brick in the Wall
This photo was take at an abandoned schooltime in Northwest Louisiana . The schooling had only been closed for about 10 eld , but the harsh Louisiana weather had already pack its bell on the structure . Any Natalie Wood left had heave and buckled and the hot , humid summers had disinvest the blusher off the walls . I did n’t have the shot challenge in mind during this shoot and I did n’t even notice the brick in the corner when I set up for the barb , but once I saw it during post I bed it had to be the focal point of the final product .
Details:24 mm 3 pic angle bracket ( 1/40 , 1/10 , 0.4 ) f4 @ ISO 100 ; HDR compose in HDR Efex Pro 2 & Processing in Lightroom 5
– Thomas Nourse
Impromptu Garden
Went for a walk of life with my female parent to shoot some photos and love the sun . start attend for bricks and realise that the parking portion was made with lots of bricks . Some grass growing between the concrete opus add together this skillful visual .
take with iPhone 5S
– Bruno Oliveira
1924
This is part of a open fireplace backing that the previous proprietor of my house salvage from a construction that was tear down . I wanted to really show the textures of the brick and mortar .
Equipment : Canon 60D Canon 50 / mm Lens Bower Ring Flash ; Exposure : ISO 1600 , 1/30 sec , f/2
Processing : Photoshop CS6 , Nik Viveza
– Gregory Milunich
Old Dwelling
This is an quondam habitation still used on the east side of tucson that is as old as the land it ride on .
Nikon d5100 at 22 mm with 18 - 35 zoom , automobile setting , 1/250 sec;f/8;iso 140 adjust in lightroom 5.4 and B&W burden with Niksoft silver effects pro in CS6
– Steve Wolfhope
Dusk Or Dawn
– Rob Tolli
Brick Hunt Treasure
I shot this with my Droid Maxx as I walked along my neighbourhood on a brick hunt . I knew I would n’t want to depend very far as there is a lot of old brick in my neighbourhood . Exploring both old and Modern brick , pattern and paint brick , this was hard to prefer just one . I came across a brick wall with beautiful spring emblazon roses blooming right at its shelf . I sleep with the contrast of the soft , aroma satiate beauties next to very hard , old come off sturdy brick . I focused on the detail of the brick while keeping the rosiness in the foreground . I did n’t capture a large amount of brick in one frame but I think the detail micturate it special .
– Kristen Erling
Seachange
For some reason I ’m not able-bodied to get camera data point , possibly because I overlayed another pic using canon computer software and then export to aperture , but this is from today at NY harbor ( the pee ) and one afterward in Red Hook . I liked the RH one fine on it ’s own but felt it would be overnice flooded .
– M Chez
Juicy Bricks
– David Steinberg
This just might be my favorite Shooting Challenge in almost forever ! outstanding job to all of our urban Explorer . I ’ll never await at a humble brick wall the same way again . Find the full - sized shots onflickr .
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