Assignment #20.....Storytellers..... (cameras, setting, pictures, photos) - Digital cameras, SLR, lenses, printing, processing, colors, black-and-white, wedding... - City-Data Forum

Azkadellia · 10-23-2008, 08:47 AM

Since we aren't sure if Shepsmom is on holiday for one or two weeks...I figured what the heck....so if Shepsmom would like to change this, then we can ask Alpha to delete this thread..okay so......on to Storytellers.....

In our daily travels, we've no doubt seen places that make us wonder about their history....abandoned homes, old barns, old tractors, things of bygone days, that make wish we could have seen them in their prime.....

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is share photos of these things you see along your way, in your area, and such....not just simple snapshots, rather the storytellers of the areas where we live, and the eople who came before us.....when posting your photos, tell us the 'story' you think might be attached to it....when viewing photos, don't be afraid to give a different story view...one image in this thread could have a dozen stories...

You all know the rules, so I don't need to reiterate them, but for this one, I'd say that while fresh images are preferred, they don't necessarily need to be...

Again, Shepsmom, if you're back and want to do something different, just please ask Alpha to delete this thread.....I'm cool with that!

I know its only Thursday, but I'm not sure what my schedule for tomorrow is!!!!

FedupWNY · 10-23-2008, 11:15 AM

This is a great assignment.

I hope Shepsmom doesn't object to letting it stay. I have always thought that a really good picture is one you can read a story from, without using words.

I hope many get their cameras out and their thinking caps on for this one.

I assume these have to be true stories.... not anything fiction.

bibit612 · 10-23-2008, 01:06 PM

Great subject! I think though that the "story" attached to it might just be something you think it to be, rather than it being true. Not sure I want to go after a history lesson.

FedupWNY · 10-23-2008, 01:20 PM

IMO, if we're to make up a story to go along with a picture, I'd probably not stop until I have a complete novel.

I don't think we're to do a full research project on something specific, rather a "what once was" in words and then a picture of "what is" today.

Am I correct, Azkadellia?

Bulldawgfan · 10-23-2008, 02:09 PM

At a small fair in central Georgia storytellers are all around you...

Azkadellia · 10-23-2008, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by FedupWNY

This is a great assignment.

I hope Shepsmom doesn't object to letting it stay. I have always thought that a really good picture is one you can read a story from, without using words.

I hope many get their cameras out and their thinking caps on for this one.

I assume these have to be true stories.... not anything fiction.

No, not really, no history lessons here....rather just look at the place, and let IT tell the story....as you perceive it to be....no need to do any serious digging....in fact, that may not be possible for places that are abandoned, so let the place tell you a story...a story you think may be part of its history...

Gimme a minute here, and I'll post one....

Azkadellia · 10-23-2008, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bibit612

Great subject! I think though that the "story" attached to it might just be something you think it to be, rather than it being true. Not sure I want to go after a history lesson.

Spot on! That's it exactly!

Azkadellia · 10-23-2008, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by FedupWNY

IMO, if we're to make up a story to go along with a picture, I'd probably not stop until I have a complete novel.

I don't think we're to do a full research project on something specific, rather a "what once was" in words and then a picture of "what is" today.

Am I correct, Azkadellia?

Take your subject place, and use your imagination to try to 'see' what it was 'back in its day'...was it a home? A business? What may have taken place there? What would the people have been like that lived or worked there?

Azkadellia · 10-23-2008, 08:42 PM

Okay, here's one of mine: this old red caboose. Its old. Real old. I found it all alone at the edge of the woods one day as I driving about doing subcontracting photos.....I investigated, and found it really WAS an old caboose, not just a building made to look like one...its under carriage was intact, but its wheels were gone....its hardware rusting, its wood rotting, its windows gone....what life it must have had, riding the rails of the state, or maybe even the country....I imagined railroad men, riding the caboose, the last car, the traditional red caboose to where ever the engine takes it...somehow it ends up in this woods....transformed it seems into a cabin of sorts, but now abandoned, and slowing decaying away.....and never do we ever see cabooses nowadays....not a one rides the rails anymore....

FedupWNY · 10-23-2008, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Azkadellia

Take your subject place, and use your imagination to try to 'see' what it was 'back in its day'...was it a home? A business? What may have taken place there? What would the people have been like that lived or worked there?

If I'd use my imagination with pictures I take, the "story" might be 110% fiction with a real-life setting. I don't want to come off as a pain, though I'm wondering how to complete the assignment, are we to write fact or fiction from our photos?