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janeyO, john tisbury, kitsch, horse just for starters but there are loads lol
certainly aint me im still trying to find mine lol lol
Iain 
Although many people cant tell what images are mine by looking through the gallerys many claim to be able to tell what threads are mine just by looking at the title so i suppose i have a style of my own in some respects. james
Quote: Although many people cant tell what images are mine by looking through the gallerys many claim to be able to tell what threads are mine just by looking at the title so i suppose i have a style of my own in some respects. james
James, we're talking about photography...
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Rog
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Can I answer that one?
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Can I answer that one?
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Certainly you can, but I just have to say that, whenever I see Jame's name at the top of a thread, I just know that we're going to get something incisive, thought-provoking, controversial, but most of all, funny. More power to his elbow I say!
Rog
I do tend to click before looking at who the photographer is, and find myself surprised by often clicking on the same people.
I wouldn't say they have a stereotyped style - but Imagio, MNphoto, sometimes urbanite, even justjas - I was getting bored with 'oh look at me can't I take an arty shot' and looking at photos that people obviously felt passionately about the subject, without trying to jazz it up with hypersaturation or fancy processing - well jas and imagio and ...sorry forgotten name that chap that lives down in the SW whose work I admire - they stand the test of time when Big Rocks In Front of Super Smooth Sea will die away.
Can I ask what is so distinctive about for example Keith's railway shots? Or landscapes? Not meaning to stirr trouble here, but what is it that makes them so distinctive that you immediately would recognize it as a KeithH upload, just from looking at the thumbnail?
to me it could be just as well be an upload by a number of other epz photographers who do the same kind of shots, and who are very good at it. do you guys see that just from the thumbnail? I mean, I'm not that much into landscape photography, so what is it that makes - for example - his photos so distinctive from other good photographers ? Style-wise I mean.
Most DaveU photos are very easily recognizable as a thumbnail (even when he - or his feet - don't feature in them ).
Tom Hoops has a very distinct style.
François - fb101 nudes are quite easy to pick out from the gallery.
Hermin, can't miss him really
Rarindra.
I think a lot of people are just pointing out contributors who take great pictures. Take Cheryl, for example. She's a damn fine wildlife tog but I don't think her style is particularly distinctive.
Style has nothing to do with preferred subject matter or use of particular post-processing techniques. It goes much deeper than that. IMO, it's more about what you bring to any given shooting situation and how you approach it - choice of viewpoint, choice of lens, detail or vista, choice of lighting, and, most importantly, pursuing a personal vision.
So, with all this in mind, and trying to stay away from the 'usual suspects', I would nominate Urbanite and riprap007 .
Still no mention..........sigh - I'm not playing any more !! 
Distinctive style, No.
Recognisable images from the thumbnails, Yes.
But is that necessarily a good thing?
I can recognise the work of many members through a "style", but generally it is a post-processing style. Applying a vignette or a certain border is not photographic style.
A distinctive style of photography would like Jools said mean something different to me.
I suspect that there is some element of style in some of my work, certainly my results tend to be quite different from others shooting at the same time of the same subject. My post-processing is very simple so I suppose what is in the RAW file is the style element. Which usually involves a narrow DOF, careful focussing and a pre-planned composition. My photography is probably about what to include in the image, whereas many landscapers are about what to exclude. Hard to explain that probably, but that's how I think about it.
I suspect that the people with a true distinctive style probably get very few votes and little attention in the gallery.
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