11-16-11 – You Can’t Fight City Hall – Page 4 – Its not photography, its Farktography

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November 14, 2011 at 9:18 pm #41816

sleeping
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I simply cannot get my perspectives right, nothing is level, way to much distortion (everything is leaning in!)

You just need a view camera! 😉

November 14, 2011 at 10:36 pm #41817

ennuipoet
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I simply cannot get my perspectives right, nothing is level, way to much distortion (everything is leaning in!)

You just need a view camera! 😉

I kept thinking to myself: “With a good tilt shift lens I could…” which is counter productive because that just isn’t happening any time soon! 🙄

November 15, 2011 at 1:50 am #41818

ravnostic
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I have procrastinated on principle: Our state sold it’s government buildings and then leased them from the buyers. I’m still pissed about this.

I plan on shooting tomorrow, but it might be pretty dull–I’ve lost some inspiration.

November 15, 2011 at 7:09 pm #41819

Farktographer
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I gots no pics and no ideas and minimal time. I’ll put down some money that says I’ll be downtown with a tripod after dark on Tuesday.

You and me both…unless I can find some decent photos in an archive-dive.

November 15, 2011 at 8:03 pm #41820

orionid
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…unless I can find some decent photos in an archive-dive.

I tried that already. Some mediocre shots of the capital building, government buildings in Spain that I’m pretty sure I already used, and a bunch of stuff that apparently isn’t allowed because it isn’t used to govern.

November 16, 2011 at 12:11 am #41821

SilverStag
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Can someone post these for me? I’m on the road this week, in Oregon, and I’ll be headed for Seattle tomorrow. Cut and Paste should do it.

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Indiana State Capitol Rotunda

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Shoeshine stand in the Capitol

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Law (Indiana State Capitol)

November 16, 2011 at 12:31 am #41822

linguine
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Can someone post these for me? I’m on the road this week, in Oregon, and I’ll be headed for Seattle tomorrow. Cut and Paste should do it.

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Indiana State Capitol Rotunda

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Shoeshine stand in the Capitol

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Law (Indiana State Capitol)

I can post for you.

November 16, 2011 at 1:55 am #41823

CauseISaidSo
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While out of town last week I managed to catch a killer cold that incapacitated me over the weekend (with the bonus of making the flight home super enjoyable), meaning I’m now scrambling to make up time for an important demo Thursday.

TL;DR: Nothing from me again this week. 🙁

November 16, 2011 at 2:27 am #41824

U-Man
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Is the description including, “Fire Department, Sewer and Water, whatever… as long as it’s owned by a government or has some government purpose.” accurate? Yugoboy directed that it should be where governing happens. Are we going to be more lenient than Yug’s last post or change the description?

November 16, 2011 at 3:43 am #41825

U-Man
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Ugh. CISS, I missed your post. Flying with a cold bites. Hope you feel better soon.

November 16, 2011 at 5:05 am #41826

clouddancer
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Town Office works, right? I think I might go for a drive tomorrow, just to get out…

Public library? Is that government?

November 16, 2011 at 6:40 am #41827

olavf
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I’m kinda confused too. Bus stations, subways, etc., are cool or no?

November 16, 2011 at 12:22 pm #41828

ennuipoet
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I’m kinda confused too. Bus stations, subways, etc., are cool or no?

Again, not my theme, but I think public transportation is definitely part of City Hall. A Greyhound Terminal not so much, but a Subway station or Metrobus Shelter, I don’t see why not.

November 16, 2011 at 12:44 pm #41829

Yugoboy
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I don’t exactly want to stifle creativity, but also… the government owns a goddam lotta stuff. Where to draw the line?

I kinda thought this theme would be an interesting way to look at those buildings where the people who make, execute, and judge the laws do their thing.

The three basic branches of government trickle all the way down to Tinytown, America, although in some places they’re smushed into the same building (which is in itself telling and interesting). I got a traffic ticket in a small town in NY one time and when I went to “court” it was the meeting hall in the DPW building. (Worked out OK… got it dismissed).

I’m open to liberal interpretations of the theme, but (as the songwriter once wrote) you can’t be “so open-minded your brains fall out.”

I may be “lucky” in that I live in a reasonably large community where I’ve got not just my town, but a number of towns, villages as well as a city, and that city’s large enough to have a federal building and a federal court house. People in a state or federal capitol will have even more options. People in Tinytown, America may have to archive dive or be creative in the way they shoot town hall, police station or the court building. It might be interesting to go inside the building, I know interiors can have merit as well. An empty court room, city council chambers or clerk’s office may have artistic value.
One of mine is City Hall from the large city I live next to and work in, one’s the Court House from a much smaller city a half hour away where Susan B. Anthony was tried for illegal voting, and the last is Rome’s (modern and current) City Hall.

Take this post for what you will. After this, I’ll let mods and voters sort it out.

November 16, 2011 at 2:23 pm #41830

sleeping
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Take this post for what you will. After this, I’ll let mods and voters sort it out.

Thing is, though: most farktography participants don’t visit these forums much if at all. So the final word on what goes or not has to be the actual theme description, not a post in this forum. And as worded that’s a lot broader than what you’re suggesting here.
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