{"id":331160,"date":"2025-12-06T12:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331160\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T12:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:56:22","slug":"i-climbed-a-building-to-get-this-shot-ahmad-mansours-best-phone-picture-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331160\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I climbed a building to get this shot\u2019: Ahmad Mansour\u2019s best phone picture | Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Freelance photographer Ahmad Mansour was visiting Al Max, a\u00a0fishing neighbourhood in Alexandria, Egypt, when\u00a0he took this image on his mobile phone. Mansour was there with friends, documenting the area and the fishermen who resided there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe sun was bright and it was very loud; the water was running strongly and the men were shouting,\u201d Mansour\u00a0says. \u201cI climbed a\u00a0small building to reach this vantage point above the men with the sardines. I love the top view angle; I\u2019d been inspired by another image that was split that way and it suited the colours to balance them like this, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Mansour says he didn\u2019t have the luxury of a camera back in 2019. \u201cBut I wasn\u2019t disheartened. I think it\u2019s important to remember it depends most of all on your vision, and striving to capture that. I\u00a0hope people see this like a\u00a0snapshot of a movie; a\u00a0small moment in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Since Mansour took the image, many of the houses around the canal have been demolished and the area has been renovated. \u201cThe fishermen no longer gather there as they used to,\u201d he says. \u201cMost of them have moved closer to the sea instead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freelance photographer Ahmad Mansour was visiting Al Max, a\u00a0fishing neighbourhood in Alexandria, Egypt, when\u00a0he took this image on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-331160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}