Pay Phones - DPChallenge Forums

Olympus 7-14mm f/4.0 Zuiko Digital Zoom

07/04/2010 04:35:43 PM · #1

We've had Cell Phones, but we've never had Pay Phones... Not only a challenge to creatively photograph, but indeed, also a challenge to find now..

Let's have a challenge to photograph these before they really are extinct!

2600 has, for years, taken submissions of pictures of 'payphones'... So if you need inspiration, (well, ok almost all the photos are pretty "reference" style..) go find a few issues of 2600..

one2one

Olympus E-5

07/04/2010 04:45:03 PM · #2

2600?

You know us North Americans are going to be owned by the British with their beautiful red phone booths. :)

Yo_Spiff

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

07/04/2010 04:45:06 PM · #3

What is 2600?

I think the blokes would own this challenge, they have those cool looking red booths. American pay phones are pretty blah.

Yo_Spiff

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

07/04/2010 04:45:43 PM · #4

Must be an echo in here...

one2one

Olympus E-5

Olympus 7-14mm f/4.0 Zuiko Digital Zoom

07/04/2010 04:46:16 PM · #5

I beat the Yo man HAHAMUHUHA HA.

:)

one2one

Olympus E-5

Olympus 7-14mm f/4.0 Zuiko Digital Zoom

07/04/2010 04:46:40 PM · #6

3 second Steve. lol

Message edited by author 2010-07-04 16:46:58.

07/04/2010 05:01:43 PM · #7

:) Bah, if every Brit enters a red-booth, we're all golden... Look at how the 73 Afghan Girls fared in Famous Photo... :)

Nah, I think us Yanks would likely do just fine, oh, and we do have those red booths over here too, it's just that ours are rare and decorative.. (the only one that springs to mind is the one on Lincoln Ave in Miami Beach..)

As for what 2600 is.. It's a computer security related monthly magazine..

Message edited by author 2010-07-04 17:05:15.

07/04/2010 05:06:55 PM · #8

Ha, check this out, they have a repository I hadn't noticed before!

ETA: We could have a bit of post-challenge fun flooding them with submissions :) They would find that humorous, I'm quite sure..

A quote from the page, also perhaps a good set of challenge guidelines?

2600 printed its first payphone photo in the Autumn 1988 issue. We received so many more contributions that printing pictures of foreign 'payphones' became a regular feature a year later. The pictures appeared on page 2, which was limited to black and white. In the Autumn 1994 issue, we moved the 'payphones' to the back page and put the table of contents on page 3. This enabled the payphone photos to be printed in their original color form. Now, by putting the pictures up on the web, we have created a growing library of foreign 'payphones'. We're starting with all of the pictures we have already printed. We will be adding pictures that weren't printed as well since there are far fewer space constraints here. In addition, those early payphone photos that appeared on page 2 of 2600 will now be seen in color for the first time.

We're always looking for pictures of phones from around the world. The best way to get them to us is through the mail as photographs. Do not pose with your payphone. Scenes of local natives using your payphone are acceptable so long as they are not smiling and/or waving at the camera. The payphone itself is the subject.

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A few favorites from the repository:
1, 2, 3
4, 5, 6

Message edited by author 2010-07-04 17:20:56.

KarenNfld

07/04/2010 05:08:44 PM · #9

My 2 favourite phonebooth photos on DPC.

Message edited by author 2010-07-04 17:09:50.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

07/04/2010 05:11:01 PM · #10

Originally posted by KarenNfld:

Yes, wow! The other is .. ok.. But this one.. what a wonderful photograph!

ETA: Your post kinda proves we need to do this challenge, if, for no other reason, to prove that there is much more to pay phones than the Brit's booths....

Message edited by author 2010-07-04 18:42:10.

KarenNfld

07/07/2010 03:44:54 PM · #11

10 unique phone booths

//www.yourofficeandpa.co.uk/blog/?p=42

JustCaree

Canon EOS-1000D Rebel XS

07/07/2010 03:47:12 PM · #12

Crap I dont think we even have pay phones anymore!!! LOL I cant remember the last time I saw a pay phone--

Sony Sonnar T* 35mm F2.8 ZA

07/07/2010 03:50:33 PM · #13

Originally posted by JustCaree:

Crap I dont think we even have pay phones anymore!!! LOL I cant remember the last time I saw a pay phone--

Just the reason to have this challenge... We should before we absolutely can't find one anywhere!

salmiakki

Apple iPhone 16 Pro

07/07/2010 03:57:04 PM · #14

FYI, these are not so easy to come by in the UK these days either.