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06/21/2005 04:39:26 AM · #1 |
Take a picture within a one mile radius of your home
Steve
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06/21/2005 04:45:10 AM · #2 |
| I guess my kitchen counts? So studio-stock-still life shots, here I come!!! :) |
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06/21/2005 04:45:34 AM · #3 |
| Oh yeah, I guess this is basically a free study, then. |
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06/21/2005 04:46:43 AM · #4 |
OK, take an OUTDOOR shot within a one mile radius of your home
Steve
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06/21/2005 06:03:47 AM · #5 |
And include a GPS receiver in the image showing your current location, and full details of your address and its coordinates.
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06/21/2005 06:16:15 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by legalbeagle:
And include a GPS receiver in the image showing your current location, and full details of your address and its coordinates. |
This sounds like a potentially good idea - I've always thought that it would be interesting to plop a few people down in the same place and see what they could "come up with" photographically. This would truly be eye-opening as far as missed opportunities and/or improving our photographic eye.
ie: A site with a relatively small radius in which someone takes 10-20 pictures and posts them... and others go to that same GPS location and do the same... and compare what everyone came up with. Maybe a bit far-fetched, but perhaps not extremely so (especially considering concepts like geocaching)
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06/21/2005 06:50:06 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by brianlh:
ie: A site with a relatively small radius in which someone takes 10-20 pictures and posts them... and others go to that same GPS location and do the same... geocaching) |
Have a look at The Confluence Project.
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06/21/2005 07:51:26 AM · #8 |
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06/21/2005 07:58:47 AM · #9 |
| around here it's also known as "a fur piece down the road." |
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06/21/2005 08:00:14 AM · #10 |
i would love to see future cameras with a built in GPS, you can get them small enough to fit in watches now...
Each pic could have location in its gps and you'd be able to view all your pictures on a map.
as for a challenge it would be hard to make sure people did keep within a mile, and what about people on holiday or who live in the city during the week and go home to the country at weekends? |
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06/21/2005 08:03:25 AM · #11 |
OK it was a crappy suggestion
I thought i'd be nice to photograph the areas near where you lived, possibly seeing something normally overlooked as you stride out to your favourite locations.
Never mind, I have loads more crap suggestions and no hesitation in sharing them too.
;-)
Steve
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06/21/2005 08:04:16 AM · #12 |
oops double post
Message edited by author 2005-06-21 08:04:38. |
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06/21/2005 10:09:45 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by muckpond:
around here it's also known as "a fur piece down the road." |
Is that what happens when the bunnies get out & hop all over the street?
;)
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06/21/2005 10:13:05 AM · #14 |
Has anyone been here?
//www.geosnapper.com/
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06/21/2005 10:14:42 AM · #15 |
For me, it would be another construction challenge.
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06/21/2005 10:40:06 AM · #16 |
I think that the idea is good, but I would prefer to see it titled less prescriptively, say:
"Home"
Everyone has a place or an area that they consider to be their home. Take a[n] [outdoor] photograph of a place that signifies home, or being at home, to you.
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06/21/2005 10:52:40 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by Tallbloke:
OK it was a crappy suggestion
;-)
Steve |
Steve, you had a good idea! It could work.
This reminds me of an ad I saw some years ago, and I paraphrase a whole bunch: The ad showed 10 light bulbs. Under the first one is the caption "I have an idea!", under the next 8 light bulbs (as the bulb got dimmer and dimmer) were reasons why it might not work. Under the last light bulb, now completely dark, was the caption, "I had no idea."
Keep 'em coming!
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06/21/2005 11:17:37 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by Tallbloke:
OK it was a crappy suggestion
;-)
Steve |
Not crappy just loosly defined. How about an outdoor photo of any actual scene already in existance near your home. The catch: you must leave your front door and walk west two blocks and then south two blocks. Take a photo of what you see. If these directions are not possible for you keep it as close as possible and substitute north, south, east or west.
OK, I know this would have to be a trust issue but it might be fun.
edit: I know we either talked about this before or did it. Can't remeber which.
Message edited by author 2005-06-21 11:19:26. |
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06/21/2005 11:52:46 AM · #19 |
It's not a crap idea.
It's a good one.
No different than the "Something new" challenge.
Or the "where you live" challenge.
They were both basically trust challenges. |
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06/21/2005 12:13:04 PM · #20 |
there is a photography practice of picking a 5x5ft or 10x10ft area and take 10-20 photos of different things within that area. A lot more defined, but add that onto the 1 mile radius! Fun, fun!
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06/21/2005 12:32:23 PM · #21 |
I think it's a good idea to look around your neighborhood and show what it looks like :)
these shots were taken within 1 mile from my home.
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06/21/2005 12:50:14 PM · #22 |
I like the "one mile" definition - becasue to reprsent i consider to be home i would have to fly clear accross the world to take an honest picture, and if i have to walk 4 blocks i'd be walking a good 10 miles to find a block hahah.
The looser definition is better, because not everyone here lives in a city. One mile of my house in any which direction is mountains and abandoned coal mines.
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06/21/2005 09:16:42 PM · #23 |
Wow, thanks for the links to the confluence project and geosnapper.. both awesome ideas that I'll have to look into further when I get the chance (and a GPS device?)
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06/21/2005 09:22:40 PM · #24 |
What is home? A place where we sleep and watch TV? Somewhere we go when we're feeling down? In the arms of a lover? |
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06/23/2005 04:51:55 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by peterish:
What is home? A place where we sleep and watch TV? Somewhere we go when we're feeling down? In the arms of a lover? |
I guess home is where the mailman drops off your mail ;)
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