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(via https://www.flickr.com/groups/onthestreet/discuss/72157635412484510/ and https://www.flickr.com/groups/1161775@N22/discuss/72157619300452042/ and […])

  • Plastic Whales
  • Shots of Backs
  • People Walking Past Monotonous Walls
  • people walking in front of advertising
  • the Too Small Subject
  • Supporting Tower of Pisa
  • Street Photography (according to Martin Parr (but “Parr is merely a clicheed version of his own earlier work”))
  • People on mobile phones
  • People juxtaposed with billboards
  • People yawning
  • People blinking (sleep walkers)
  • People taking photographs
  • People lying down in public
  • Statues and art appearing to interact with their environment
  • People obscured by trees
  • an hdr shot of a kitten at sunset
  • Faces obscured by balloons, flowers etc..
  • People perfectly positioned within a small frame within the frame
  • people carrying random objects (often unusual or unexpected)
  • Synchronised stepping
  • People mirroring each other's body postures, including people mirroring public art body postures.
  • People panhandling (while other people pretend not to notice them)
  • Pictures of the photographer's own shadow - amusing object/animal (e.g. pigeon) optional
  • Pictures of the photographer's own reflection in shop window - Rolleiflex optional
  • Person caught in mid-flight jumping over puddle
  • Urchins playing war games in derelict building
  • People obscured by umbrellas on rainy day
  • People drinking coffee in cafes - especially Parisian

(via http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157614174895918/ and […] )

  • The girl looking into the mirror and the reflection is her dressed differently or whatever.
  • Anyone screaming, though I have one of a 7 year old doing that in my stream.
  • Pretty girl with a fur lined hood wrapping her face
  • Multiple clones of oneself
  • gas masks
  • a naked female with m+m's, rose pedals, pebbles, or any other small pieces of whatever covering her crotch
  • picture of a guy being lit by his computer
  • hand bra
  • any guns or ninjas, unless they really look legitimately like they should be holding a gun or is a ninja, ala Chase Jarvis' pics. Airchinapilot (Keith Loh) also just posted some nice gun pics from an actors gun training class.
  • smoke streams
  • anything splashing into a martini glass
  • view of the dashboard of a car in focus with street lights streaking by through the windshield
  • photographer taking a picture of himself/herself taking a picture of himself/herself in the mirror.
  • photographer taking a picture of another photographer taking a picture of the first photographer
  • when the two photographers from #14 create links between the pictures they each took so we can all see them taking pictures of each other from each perspective
  • Self Portraits made by pointing the camera into a mirror using one of those special left handed limited edition DSLRs made by nokiN or nonaC.
  • jumping
  • dripping faucet
  • heart bokeh
  • subject sitting on a toilet, especially if it's an attractive girl (some photographers will go to any length to get a girl to get naked)
  • popping water balloon
  • the stupid myspace shot, that camera held up overhead shooting down on yourself angle. Oh! And it is always from a cameraphone.
  • long exposures of spinning carnival rides
  • girls wearing both a bathing suit AND high heels.
  • A Single Leaf on Dirt, water, grass,stairs etc.
  • “Pointing out cliches.”
  • Underexposed sky with a female model, no contextual information for why she's there, and soft light coming in from camera right or left with an edge light from behind.
  • levitation pictures
  • Rings in books uk held by girls covered in m&m's shot in macro with flowers
  • strangers walking by an “interesting” wall.
  • Shots of Laser Mouse
  • over processed wide angle overblow rim portraits
  • “I rather fear there is a flickr group for every cliche on the list…”
  • the “hunched shoulders” pose in fashion photos
  • Blurry long exposure waterfalls
  • Shots of peoples gear collection, or how much they can fit in a daypack.
  • train tracks.
  • B&W single light source nudes
  • Building shots with super wide angles.
  • White farm fences.
  • Sub-atomic particle detector technicians, and anything with the Ogalthorpe look.
  • Roasted window poultry
  • picture frames. people holding picture frames. or stepping through picture frames..
  • Bokeh highlights of point light sources especially cheap 5 bladers or even worse hearts
  • Slow shutter night traffic tail lights
  • Scientists with test tubes conical bottles and over gelled backgrounds
  • Anyone holding a large spanner (except Bob)
  • HDR sunsets
  • macros of tap water / milk / coloured water drop splashes
  • Backlit flowers as seen through a drop of (tap water) mist
  • Scrap rusty iron
  • Super-wide-angle shots of cars from a corner of the front bumper
  • hummingbirds and flower macros and hdr hot-air balloons

Instagram Clichés → http://mashable.com/2012/08/31/cliche-instagram-photos/ )

“Every photo book needs the following: a dwarf, a naked lady, a dog, an umbrella and a horse.” –Charlie Kirk

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