09-03-08 – Terminal Madness

Well that cuts me down to a small airport because this podunk town does not have a bus station or ferry terminal or train station. It barely has public transportation.

I don’t believe the theme is limited to transportation only though. It might be a good excuse to skip the obvious and go with some macrophotography?

You have a point. I guess my first step is wiki terminal and see what I can find that fits the theme that I have access to.

According to the dictionary http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terminal, there’s a lot of ways one could go with this.

/Got myself some new ideas too, methinks…

Print out and bring Krages’ excellent page on Photographer’s rights.

I’ve read this before and came here to ask where I could find it. Thanks! That’s mighty speedy service.

I agree with olavf, this will be a more interesting theme if terminal is defined loosely.

I know. I read the difficulty – But I have one idea that relates to termial illness or death. It wouldn’t actually show anybody who was ill or dead though. The way I picture it in my head is very tasteful and could be powerful. A living, sad person is pictured but the subject is death and dying. Should I even try this one or would it be automatically booted because of the difficulty?

so I wouldn’t think it should qualify.

Uuuuuuh. So that’s a “No, don’t use that idea”. Right? 🙂

That said, what do y’all think about a roundhouse/turntable being in theme? It’s the ‘end of the line’ as far as the trains go, but it’s not a embarking/disembarking location.

I ask because some of the shots I plan on taking this weekend are near the California Railroad Museum and they’ve got a really nifty turntable where they spin their excursion trains around to go the other way.

I actually had two ideas. I work at a hospital and I was going to try a shot like this – Cardiac monitor in the foreground, in focus, with a flat-line. One of the residents in their ‘doctor coat’ talking with someone in street clothes in the background, slightly out of focus. Titled something like “We did everything we could…”

The other would be my wife and kids (or maybe just one of them, or maybe holding the little one) holding hands in front of a grave. Shot from behind. Setting sun in the distance.

Morbid, I know. But real and possible powerful.

/Many days I go home and give my family an extra big hug because of something I saw at work. Recognizing how fortunate we are today. Right now. We’re not guaranteed tomorrow.

…but would probably also have to agree that they would not fit in with the rules…

Yeah. I guess I forgot to acknowledge that in the beginning of my last post. I wasn’t trying to influence the jury. 🙂