Mini Challenge #161 - Time Travel
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Welcome to Mini-Challenge #161! The theme of this challenge will be Time Travel.
Try to take your viewer back in time by submitting a photo that has nothing in it that reminds you of the late 20th or early 21st centuries. Try to include a structure, furnishings, or people in your image. Take us back in time. Make us wonder if it's 1973, 1943, 1893, 1773, or earlier. It isn’t required to submit images in sepia or black & white -- after all, folks back then saw in color!
This challenge starts now and will close at 11:59 PM (Eastern Time), April 7, 2013
*** Fresh photos are welcome. If you haven't thought about this subject before, please feel free and take some photos during the challenge period.
OUR UN-OFFICIAL GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and you post 1-3 images. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner becomes the next host, chooses the next topic and becomes the next judge.
3. Any photo you’ve taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo.
5. You may comment on other contestant's images. If you want someone to leave you some critique or criticism, just ask within your post.
6. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, don't let this just be an entry thread!
6. When quoting a post, change the IMG urls to a 200x200 size picture so it is clear your post is feedback and not another entry. (See here for help).
7. Don't be hesitant; share 'em and enter!
Mini-Challenge pointers:
1. Upon winning a mini-challenge round, your first step is coming up with a new theme and starting a new thread using the same format as others have used.
2. Make sure to notify the admin of this thread to update the main thread links with your entry thread.
3. Feel free to watch the thread as it grows or wait to the end time and look at all the entries all at once.
4. After the time/date has passed, then officially close the thread with a single post notifying everyone of the fact.
5. After you're finished judging, start a new thread (again using the prior formats) and post your Winner and runners-up. It is important to have runners up in case the winner does not show within the 72-hour window.
6. PM the winner with this info above and let them know they have 72 hours to set up the next mini-challenge.
7. If the winner does not show/start the next mini-challenge after 72 hours, notify the next runner-up and post a message on the Winner thread of the fact.
8. Remember, if you're the Winner, you run the next mini challenge!
Here are some examples:
1) Hibbs House, Washington Crossing, PA
2) Injured German Soldiers
3) Civil War Soldier
4) House in Ruins
5) Thompson's Mill, Solebury Twp., PA
Try to take your viewer back in time by submitting a photo that has nothing in it that reminds you of the late 20th or early 21st centuries. Try to include a structure, furnishings, or people in your image. Take us back in time. Make us wonder if it's 1973, 1943, 1893, 1773, or earlier. It isn’t required to submit images in sepia or black & white -- after all, folks back then saw in color!
This challenge starts now and will close at 11:59 PM (Eastern Time), April 7, 2013
*** Fresh photos are welcome. If you haven't thought about this subject before, please feel free and take some photos during the challenge period.
OUR UN-OFFICIAL GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and you post 1-3 images. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner becomes the next host, chooses the next topic and becomes the next judge.
3. Any photo you’ve taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo.
5. You may comment on other contestant's images. If you want someone to leave you some critique or criticism, just ask within your post.
6. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, don't let this just be an entry thread!
6. When quoting a post, change the IMG urls to a 200x200 size picture so it is clear your post is feedback and not another entry. (See here for help).
7. Don't be hesitant; share 'em and enter!
Mini-Challenge pointers:
1. Upon winning a mini-challenge round, your first step is coming up with a new theme and starting a new thread using the same format as others have used.
2. Make sure to notify the admin of this thread to update the main thread links with your entry thread.
3. Feel free to watch the thread as it grows or wait to the end time and look at all the entries all at once.
4. After the time/date has passed, then officially close the thread with a single post notifying everyone of the fact.
5. After you're finished judging, start a new thread (again using the prior formats) and post your Winner and runners-up. It is important to have runners up in case the winner does not show within the 72-hour window.
6. PM the winner with this info above and let them know they have 72 hours to set up the next mini-challenge.
7. If the winner does not show/start the next mini-challenge after 72 hours, notify the next runner-up and post a message on the Winner thread of the fact.
8. Remember, if you're the Winner, you run the next mini challenge!
Here are some examples:
1) Hibbs House, Washington Crossing, PA
2) Injured German Soldiers
3) Civil War Soldier
4) House in Ruins
5) Thompson's Mill, Solebury Twp., PA
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My personal pet peeve is black and white photos that weren't originally black and white and don't need to be black and white.
I have tons of photos taken back in the 50s - even some that I took and probably over 1000 taken in the 1960's. But I'm assuming you don't want that - you want contemporary photos that look like they may have been taken back then.
Lovely!
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Thank you
But this isn't an entry - I obviously could not have taken the photo
I agree with Tatiana in that it's a lovely photo!
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I've been thinking about this and I've decided to do a separate thread of my own of photos that were taken (some by my parents and some by me and some OF me) - photos separated by a number of years (sometimes 50 years - sometimes more and sometimes less). For the most part, I can't enter these here because many of them I did not take. They were taken by my parents or my husband or maybe in some cases by my sister.
Time wasting at its finest!!!!
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Then and Now
2. Dinner Time
3. Candle Light
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Light is everything in life and photography.
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This is one taken in Louisiana at the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site inside the 1815 plantation house in 2004.
This was taken in Key West of the conch houses (Bahamian architecture). I suppose technically it isn't a correct entry because the photo was taken in 1967. When we lived in Key West, I was taking a painting class (outdoors) and this is one of the places that we went to paint. This was the painting that I did
(I've made each of my children take some of my paintings - this one went to my daughter who lives in Florida). The houses are still the same except that trees have grown and hidden them a little bit, and they've put up a picket fence and a fancy light pole. This was taken from the car as we drove by in 2004, and isn't an entry
Virginia City Nevada
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Ganna Walska's Garden
Withering Heights (Click for larger version)
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Actually, those images are right on target with the theme, as are yours.
What may look old and beat up to us now was brand new at one time. If you were to have traveled back in time to the 18th century, you would have countered a scene much like that which zoomn captured.
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(deleting non-entries taking back in the day)
But if you are happy with them, then that's all that matters.
2. Boots (Taken in 2010)
3. News boy (Taken in 2006)
Sherry
Think about it: power lines have been around for a while. I think they started popping up in the 19th century.
Cheers!
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2. BlueNose II (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia)
3. End of the workday (Louisburg Fortress, Nova Scotia)
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This is wonderful!
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If you see no power lines, that's a sign to me that it is a restoration and not original. People didn't bury power lines in those days. It may not be 'artistic' to have them. But a photo actually taken in the 20th century would have had power lines in it unless the area didn't have electricity.
When I was looking for a photo to take yesterday in Leonardtown (and here is an old photo of the main street)
that would look old, I didn't even consider not have electric lines in it. What I think shows that the photo is not old are things like
vinyl siding on the houses
those big trash cans on wheels
house numbers with five digits
modern traffic signs
accessibility ramps and railings in places which would not originally have had them (like moat bridges)
and of course new cars and modern clothing including wrist watches. And permapress. In the old days things got wrinkled when you wore them. If I see people dressed as colonial times and they are all fresh and crisp, I don't believe it. Those were the things I was trying to keep out of my photos.
I think this may be a difference in perspective from someone who remembers how things actually were back then. It is like that website that is titled "I am so old that I have actually dialed a rotary phone before", and I not only have dialed one, but I still have one.
1) Old Ways
2) End of Steam
3) Old Police Phone Box - going back in time with a Tardis!
Fun challenge, and some lovely interesting shots here by GrandmaR in my view ... good luck everyone.
Alan.
Get Headquarters on the Horn
Sad Banjo Man
Train Station
2. the abbey
3. rue d'vin
FIRE!
Ol' No. 734
C&O Canal
Thanks for looking!
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Recreating the American Frontier
Victorian Doll
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thanks bill
people are confusing the intent?
- should I go dig for old pictures, or take new shots and then either or by PP and compostion make it look was taken a few decades ago at least?
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would these work?
Dont worry about it too much, do what you feel based on the Judges Theme, not what poeple are posting or comments from drugstore cowgirls & boys....