>>>>Challenge C190-Photographing History<<<<

Here it is!

I think I have it in my mind as I want it now. Hopefully it will come across to you with a little more instruction. If anyone can understand me LOL

What makes photography so great? For me, it is the recording of history. We all love looking at the world as it was. Hopefully civilization will be around way long enough to enjoy looking at our photos with awe, perhaps not as much as we do now. Now there are movies and videos etc... I for one, love looking at how things were.

I want you to try and photograph something that you feel will tell someone 100 years from now, how things were here in the year 2012 and for the exhibition any worthy photos from the time you began taking them.

Think about fashion, think about the depressed economy (for example like that shot I got of the guy & dog living out of his truck), maybe a shot you took during the 70s or 80s for the exhibition. This could be buildings too. If there is a building that seems new to you but you think years from now our great grandkids might find it humorous or odd or amazing, that will work too. You can keep them in color or go for a monotone look. Really up to your creative minds.

The competition runs from now, Aug 2nd, 2012 to 9pm (GMT) on Monday, August 13th, 2012.

At that time the galleries will be closed and the voting will commence with a new thread.
Voting period from 9pm (GMT) Aug. 13 to Aug. 15.
The winner in the competition gallery will host the next challenge.
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Newcomers are totally welcome and encouraged to join the fun. Just post here if you need assistance to get images into the gallery or if you are not certain what's going on. We all started off clueless and make the same mistakes.

To post a photo in any of the galleries, just select the gallery of choice from below: Competition or Exhibition or Originals. On the top of the page you will see "edit this gallery", click on that and it will ask for a password. Enter "kickass" (don't ask, just keep it lower case) and you should be able to make it from there. If you still need assistance, ask and you shall be answered. Sometimes the answer is even the right one!

Add your name after the title (makes voting easier). (To make image sizes manageable, we need to max out at 750 pixels square, which is still more pixels than the usual 800x600.) And make sure the size is still max 200k. Pbase lets us run these challenges free on their website, so please respect this by keeping your file size reasonable. Ensure the EXIF data is intact for the competition, with the date it was taken.

Starting gallery - contains the other galleries and a link to the general rules:
http://www.pbase.com/oly_foto_review/c190_challenge

Competition gallery - for pictures taken to the theme with a 4/3 or µ4/3 camera, during the entry time Aug. 2nd - Aug. 13th, 2012.
http://www.pbase.com/oly_foto_review/c190_competition

Exhibition gallery - for pictures taken to the theme at any time, with any camera:
http://www.pbase.com/oly_foto_review/c190_exhibition

Originals gallery - if you want to show how the original photo looked before you modified it:
http://www.pbase.com/oly_foto_review/c190_originals

If your clock doesn't show GMT, here is the time calculator found by Catman:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx

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Shirl Haden
http://www.pbase.com/shaden008

and thanks for stepping into Trond's shoes. They seem to fit just fine.
One in the X.
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Cheers,

• Stefan

http://skaben.zenfolio.com/

I was trying to hurry it up and get the galleries going. It was a history of a personal nature. Yet, I love looking at old portraits, old street shots from the 30s and 40s, so I imagine 100 years from now or even less, looking at photos of people we're taking, might be facinating to someone in the future.

Great start to the exhibition Stefan!

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Shirl Haden
http://www.pbase.com/shaden008

I really liked your picture in the last challenge. I am so glad you willingly took over for Trond.

The new challenge should really get us to go out and look at the world in a different way. Sometimes it is hard for us to see the world as it will be - I think this is true for art as well - sometimes we like what was so much we cannot see the art in what is.

I got a starter one in ex

brent

Shirley said:

I want you to try and photograph something that you feel will tell someone 100 years from now, how things were here in the year 2012...

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How about a shot of a hand-held camera?

By 2112, "photography" might be done with implants. Or telepathy.



Seriously, though -- you've set a good, thought-starting theme.
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Zin

MercurySoft1 said:

... I love looking at old portraits, old street shots from the 30s and 40s, so I imagine 100 years from now or even less, looking at photos of people we're taking, might be facinating to someone in the future.

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I added one of my favorite street shots to the X - taken in Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia. I happen to think it says something about the times we live in.
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Cheers,

• Stefan

http://skaben.zenfolio.com/

I'm going to be on overload over the weekend, so excuse me for not having much time on my hand for a few days. I'm working on the upholstery job and Mark is coming by in the morning to help us bring my sewing machine downstairs where it is cooler and better light. Much more room down there too. Then we're going to that huge warehouse of fabric (biggest one in the USA) and look for a more suitable fabric for the cloth part of the seats. Then I've got to get them sewed up this week. It will be fun as long as this old used machine I bought will handle the thickness of upholstery okay. If it will, it will be a breeze. Wee! I'll take pics when its all done.

I'm going out on Sunday because the weather sounds like it will be fabulous! Tuesday we have to go into Saint Paul, good chance to look for photo opps.

I can't wait to see what entries we get. I think it will be wonderful! (that is my most favorite word to describe stuff- I should get a list of superlatives.) ha!
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Shirl Haden
http://www.pbase.com/shaden008

I just hope it is fun. My starter shots are a bit lame, but I was hurrying up to get the galleries open. I think looking at people from the 19th and 20th century is very interesting. The way they dressed, the somber faces in a lot of them. In the days before anyone noticed saying "cheese" was a vital part of portraiture. LOL How those ladies ever withstood the heat in all those clothes is a mystery to me too. No wonder we've lost our modesty, we wanted smell better and perspire less.

And how about buildings! They've really changed a lot too. Out with the highly ornate to the Feng Shiu. Oh man, there are so so many things that we use now that will be obsolete in a 100 years. Remember the first computers! LOL funny
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Shirl Haden
http://www.pbase.com/shaden008

I'm going to dig out some photos I took when I was 14 or 15 of my little brothers. One in particular of them standing in front of my brothers 1st car. It was jacked up so high in the back you needed a running jump to sit on the trunk. LOL Now they have hydralics and bounce. ))

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Shirl Haden
http://www.pbase.com/shaden008

a fine weekend! It was so lovely today and tomorrow will be ideal too. I'm so grateful for some nice 70s!

Wishing you all a great sunshiny day too!
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Shirl Haden
http://www.pbase.com/shaden008

MercurySoft1 said:

a fine weekend! It was so lovely today and tomorrow will be ideal too. I'm so grateful for some nice 70s!

Wishing you all a great sunshiny day too!

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Seattle today got 93 F. (33+ C.) -- first time over 90 degrees (32 C.) in two years.

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Zin

And thanks, Shirley, for stepping in.

My trip has come to an end, and so it seems has my computer. I have some GB (more than I like to think of) with pictures thats not backed up but worst case scenarious is not an option, its gonna be fixed. In mean time, have fun everybody with photographing history.
kleivis

All film scans, pics from the 1980's - now there is history !!

Have an idea for Comp, just gotta gitter-done!
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Jim

Nice theme, Shirley.

We are on holidays, in Montse's family town'with no access to my archives' so, I cannot contribute to the exibthis time. And for the comp, I'll struggle a little because in fact we are surrounded more by things (messatges) from 100, 200, 300 years ago than by things we can explain to somebody in the future.

Fortunatelly, mobile connections have been improved hugely, and we can use mobile data connection. Quite limited, but much better than nothing.
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Unfortunately anything for Ex will have to wait until I get my desktop back online... no, didn't crash, I'm reorganizing my computer nook and it's taking longer than expected to find the floor
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Art P
"I am a creature of contrast,
of light and shadow.
I live where the two play together,
I thrive on the conflict"

Wow that must have been a shock to everyone's systems. My daughter lived in Seattle then moved to Florence, Or. She was complaining that while we were baking in the heat here, their temps couldn't seem to get out of the 60s. I hope shre got that shot of heat you did, she'd really love it. I, on the other hand would prefer upper 60s and sunshine or low 70s and sunny.

Glad to hear you survived it, ha!
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Shirl Haden
http://www.pbase.com/shaden008

A great idea and I cant wait to get out and get some more shots
3 in ex and one in comp
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Michael Ramsay

you can shoot some new shots of old stuff for the exhibition. And think about stuff around there. Maybe your mother-in-law has a new coffee machine that in years from now will look very antique. Anything will do if you have the time. Say "Hi" to everyone (especially Montse), and have a great time there!
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Shirl Haden
http://www.pbase.com/shaden008

I know just how it is. I cleaned out my desk in order to straighten things up. I put the stuff in boxes there was so much of it. Then instead of getting through the boxes and putting the stuff back, I just accumulated a new load of 'stuff' all over and in my desk. It's a constant stream of stuff and I don't want to throw it away. It's crazy!

Good luck to you, from the bottom of my heart. LOL
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Shirl Haden
http://www.pbase.com/shaden008