SEPTEMBER 2025: IBARIONEX PERELLO
PHOTOGRAPH: PATIENCE
THE ASSIGNMENT BRIEF
From Ibarionex Perello: “I’m going to choose patience as my word. I apply it in a lot of my pictures, because the making involves a lot of patience. So it can be how you technically make a photograph, or how you find and stay with a subject. If someone can make a photograph which reflects what patience may look like, that would be very interesting to see, too.”
HOW TO ENTER. IMPORTANT NOTES ON FILE SIZE AND ENTRIES
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Entries are shown below. Good luck!
Neale
IBARIONEX PERELLO
Make a photograph that involves patience, either in the making, or the subject.
ALISON WAIGHT
When I heard this month’s assignment theme, I knew at once what I would photograph. I’d seen these figures so often in my walks past the pond in the local woodland. Come rain or shine, these men – and it is almost always men, sit patiently by the pond waiting for a fish. They come prepared for the long haul and for any weather – folding chair, waterproofs, flasks of tea or coffee, lunch boxes – maybe even a Garibaldi or two and after carefully preparing their lines, they sit back to wait…..
MARILYN DAVIES
Patience! I believe this is an essential skill for any genre of photography. As I'm still progressing through my 365 project, I am learning more and more about photography every day and the patience it takes to set up an image, especially when looking at still life. Concepts are many and varied, but they often come to you in a flash.
This image is called "Peeled". The concept came to me while I was peeling an orange. It took a little while to set up, but I'm happy with the result. It's a long exposure (4 seconds) with some light painting to ensure the bottom of the fruit had some definition. Patience in preparing the fruit, suspending the peel, making and editing the image.
See more of Marilyn’s work on her website.
MARK MACKAY
I was pondering what might be done to create a submission on “patience”. Given it’s spring at home I was hoping to create a double exposure photograph of a flower open and closed, but alas time ran out before I had to travel. I’ll save the idea for another day.
I now find myself in Rome - in the area of Trastevere. A little worse for wear, but that’s irrelevant per se, though it did make me ponder the idea of patience a little more. We chose the area to stay because it’s historic and facilitates walking.
It’s been some years, dare I say decades, since we ventured here. Despite now being on the “shoulder season” of tourism, it’s still really busy. We were looking for a break from the crowds. A quick search showed us that we were staying a short walk from the Orto Botanico.
Despite the warm weather (the temperature has been around the 30C mark), the gardens were largely empty, save for some workers and perhaps some university students … and of course us. It was difficult to believe that the gardens are so close to the the cars and mopeds that weave in among the people in the narrow streets of Trastevere, let alone a few kilometres from major tourist attractions where thousands of people jostle each other to hurry through seeing something from their various checklists of “must see while in Rome”. So much for the saying “dolce vita” for the tourists!
As we wandered around the gardens we noticed the many birds and small lizards, the lonesome squirrel and cat, and some fantastic views of the city. Thankfully we also encountered various places to sit.
One of these benches had its own short path off the main walking trail. Filtered light from the surrounding plants was showering the bench. The seating was just patiently waiting for someone to come and admire the view. But alas, how often it must sit unused as the masses ignore the opportunity to avoid the crowds and get a little peace and quiet in this beautiful garden.
I wanted to capture the light filtering through the leaves and plants, and the bench someway down the path. The lonesome bench faces towards the centre of Rome and patiently awaits the next tourist or local in need of some great views or just some solitude with nature.
I suggest the photo be titled The Patient Bench.
See more of Mark’s work on his Instagram.
JADE LEE
My cat, Faith, is an indoor cat, but I've recently been letting her outside with me in the morning to sit on our verandah. It gets lots of sun and she loves to steal my seat while I sit on the concrete step.
Unfortunately, she now spends a lot of her time indoors, sitting at the door, dreaming of the outside world and staring at the door handle. She then turns around and looks at me, meows very distinctly and then stares back at the handle. This, to me, is the very epitome of patience. I also think I may have created a monster! My photo is called, 'Waiting patiently.'
You can find more of Jade’s project work on this website.
ROBERT DANN
This month's contest had me digging way back in the archives for a shot I made of fathers waiting for their sons and daughters to race their micro racers in Groton, New York. While the youngsters were pumped and ready to go, their dads waited patiently for their opportunity to shine.
See more of Robert’s work on his website.
