Themes Proposed (Current / Past)These are themes which we'd like to cover on NYCJPG, in order of most recently suggested. Sample thumbnails where available. Suggestions encouraged, including for more catchy names for the themes.
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The New York Experience: one month of the most popular things average tourists see and do in NYC. Hmmm .... This will be a public service on our part, since if we pick our subjects right, the tourists can simply print out and staple together the 30 pages of this series when they get home, and find most of their activities commemorated in the resultant souvenir booklet. We are looking for 30 topics, appropriate for this time of year, and suggestions are welcome. Here's some:
Expect crowds, long lines, and aimless milling about throughout this series! |
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| Parking Garages: It's like in Hitchcock's "The Birds" -- you notice a couple of them out of the corner of your eye, then a couple more -- then you look around and you are completely surrounded! There's nothing but parking garages! |  |
| NYC Block-by-Block: pick any single block (the length between two streets or avenues) and try to capture its "essence" in three photos. | |
| View from a Spot: The thing about NYC is that if you are outdoors, you are usually moving rapidly from point A to point B, except when the traffic lights and tourists get in your way. But if you stand or sit in one place for a while -- maybe you are having lunch -- you will usually notice several things of interest, especially seen from that particular vantage point. Pick two or three of them. And take a picture of the spot you were at. | |
| My Favorite NYC Food: You will like this assignment. Go to one of your favorite places and order your favorite dish. Or three of them. Take pictures of it fresh from the kitchen. Remember, we need three pictures so you may have to order it three times; see if it looks any different in the day vs. the evening, or if the kitchen prepares the same size portion each time. And most importantly, try to describe what's so great about it. ... The Rube has dibs on Custard Beach; he already shot a Large Cup of vanilla and chocolate in Grand Central, and he is looking forward to a session with a vanilla custard and cherry sorbet topped with black cherries, photographed outdoors at the World Financial Center. And there is another neat-looking ice cream place about to open on 42nd Street which could be the third picture. In fact, the Rube claims dibs on all the ice cream places in NYC -- you guys have to think of something else to do. | |
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Lost Book Found: A tribute to Jem Cohen's impossible-to-find film of the same name. |
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| Lighted Trees: It seems there are more trees which are lit throughout the winter than there used to be. (Coming Winter '04.) |  |
| Panoramas: Another thing digital photography makes a lot easier to experiment with. |
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Framing Devices: Something seen through something else.
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