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05/28/2006 08:42:21 AM · #1 |
Just curious as to how far you generally travel for your challenges. What is the furthest you have traveled for a challenge entry? How far did you have to travel for your top scoring entry? Post the challenge entry you went the farthest for, and post your top scoring entry and how far you traveled.
This is the one I traveled furthest for. (Cape Cod, don't know how many miles, but it took me four hours to get there.)
This is the highest scoring to date. How far did I travel? To my kitchen.
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05/28/2006 08:52:38 AM · #2 |
I have a couple challenge entries from New Mexico (about 2000 miles) but I was there anyway - I had no choice if I wanted to enter. Typically I don't travel too far - I'm between DC, Annapolis, and Baltimore so I have three great cities to work with. Those are about the furthest I've travelled specifically for a challenge and there are many in those.
My highest entry? In my kitchen. Must be something about kitchens. :) |
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05/28/2006 08:57:09 AM · #3 |
Any weekend I'm not booked to shoot something, I grab my camera bag and head out. I've been known to drive as much as 5 hours to hit a particular state park or other nifty site I've heard about. People are always asking "have you ever shot at blah blah blah?" and if I haven't, I add it to my mental list. I'll have covered all of Florida in another year or so.
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05/28/2006 09:01:20 AM · #4 |
NYC 
Melbourne, Australia 
Mauritius  
Bora Bora, French Polynesia 
Faxi Falls, Iceland  |
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05/28/2006 09:05:35 AM · #5 |
Furthest has been a couple of hours, closest has been the kitchen.
It seems the further from home I get the better my score. |
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05/28/2006 10:46:22 AM · #6 |
furthest.. Paris France 
second furthest place London England 
closest. my office 
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05/28/2006 11:01:34 AM · #7 |
I don't normally travel anywhere for challenges. Usually works out that I have been out taking photos and then later read the challenge and said... hmmm... fits well enough.
Furthest:
This one just sort of fit the challenge.
Highest:
This one I actually went out to take for the challenge.
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05/28/2006 11:01:59 AM · #8 |
Furthest: Antarctica
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05/28/2006 11:55:01 AM · #9 |
My highest score is also the one I went the furthest for (Ottawa). But I didn't go there to take pics for the challenge, of course. I was in Ottawa and when I got home this picture fit the challenge so I entered it. I knew what the challenge was while I was in Ottawa and ironically I was trying to get pictures for the long exposure challenge but none of the ones I took of the Ottawa streets at night were any good (Ottawa is sort of dead at night).
For other challenges I might go as close as my dining room where I have my flashes and poster board for backgrounds or around the city. The furthest I travelled to actually shoot pics for a challenge was about an hours drive away for this one:
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05/28/2006 12:07:20 PM · #10 |
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05/28/2006 12:08:20 PM · #11 |
I have travelled over an hour one way seven times specifically to do nothing but take a challenge picture. (It's nearly two hours one way to the beach)
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05/28/2006 12:22:05 PM · #12 |
I've taken many DPC entries further away, but the furthest I traveled specifically to photograph a challenge entry is 340 miles (550 kilometers) for the time challenge. I thought Monument Valley would be a great place to capture time standing still so drove all night to get there at sunrise:
I drove about the same distance for a red ribbon winner but that trip was not motivated in any way by a DPC challenge and I did not even know what the challenge topics were until I returned and made this last minute entry:
My top scoring entry was taken about 30 miles (50 kilomenters) from home on my way BACK from taking my "real" challenge entry about twice as far away. LOL!
Message edited by author 2006-05-28 12:25:53.
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05/28/2006 12:23:31 PM · #13 |
| about 120kms, the furthest i've travelled for a specific shoot. |
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05/28/2006 12:23:35 PM · #14 |
I'm lucky that way; none of my images are taken further than 33 miles from my house (Provincetown, the tip of the Cape), and I'd say 90% of them are within 12 miles. Probably 75% are within 3-4 miles, and a big chunk of THOSE are within walking distance.
 a couple hundred yards down the street
 half a mile down the road
 about 3 miles or so away
I'm lucky that way. And there's a gazillion spots I have yet to explore within the same radius... I've been pretty lazy, actually.
R.
Edit to add: THIS one I drove about 20 miles to shoot, specifically, with this actual shot in mind for the textures challenge: I'd seen the boat a few days before on a rainy day...
Message edited by author 2006-05-28 12:40:31.
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05/28/2006 12:30:33 PM · #15 |
It helps to have Nature cooperate with gorgeous scenery, but that does not happen in Wichita LOL
Given I work 2 jobs, I don't travel for any shots. I have to get creative right in my house and back yard.
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05/28/2006 12:46:58 PM · #16 |
The furthest I have ever driven for the sake of a challenge photo, and I mean a trip where I wasn't already going to be in the area anyway, is 43 miles.
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05/28/2006 12:52:30 PM · #17 |
The only ones taken any substantial distance from home were (in order of distance travelled):
  
None involved any special travels however.
My top scorer:
was taken in my lounge.
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05/28/2006 12:58:21 PM · #18 |
Robert I'm really jealous. I don't think I could even try to shoot a landscape within 3 miles of home. And it would probably take a flight of an hour or more before I stood a chance of finding anything halfway as beautiful as where you live. I think it's time to move.
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