Photography Board Summer Assignment, 2010: Scavenger Hunt

[PrincessInOz]

This set are replacement photos….no extra points claimed.

Cigar Store Indian* !!!
There are 37 Cigar/Tobacco shops listed in the Telephone directory. I visited about 9 or 10 of them to find the Cigar Store West Indian and the picture of the Cigar Store Indian.

Silly Me! Turns out I was stalking the wrong category. I found this specimen this week….

Any guesses for which type of shop he was outside??

Would you believe a CARPET store??!


Spiderweb Spiders are finally active again in drizzly Melbourne.

Jukebox*

 

[PrincessInOz]

Pea N Me – This set requires adjudication

HoeDown**My son’s school held a Music Trivia Night for the parents this weekend. The parents came fancy dress. I jumped at the chance to practice my photo taking.
Despite not having any hay, does this qualify?

Clam Shack* These are two of the seaside places that remotely might qualify.

It’s too cold for this place to open!

This is at the end of a pier. Picture complete with HYDRANT and WEATHERVANE.

Menu

Papoose** No luck with American Indian Papoose here, but I found a number of other papooses from different cultures. Can I claim the points?


Peruvian style

African style

Mayan style

Summer Concert This is one category I know I’m not going to get in wintry Melbourne. But here is a winter concert…and I’m not claiming any points for this category.

Yup. It was a recital by CELEBRITY GUITARIST Maestro Ricardo Gallen http://www.naxos.com/person/Ricardo_Gallen/1062.htm

 

[PrincessInOz]

Body Art (excluding self)

Dance Where else – but at the school music trivia night?

Dusty I finally found somewhere that DH didn’t get to…..under the couch!

Firefly* It’s too cold for fireflies in Melbourne. So, I settled for a NEON sign variety.

Kilt, bagpiper in Kilt**

Napping Passenger in Car My cousin is visiting from San Francisco. This is her on day 2, still catching up on jetlag.

Newspaper Delivery Person** The MX is a free afternoon newspaper that is available in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney http://www.mxnet.com.au/

 

[PrincessInOz]

Food related set.
Disclaimer: Only my stomach was harmed in the taking of this set.


Chowder (waterside dining*)


This is the seafood chowder

And this is where I ordered and ate it….you can see the sea behind the pavillion.

Club sandwich (ham) with toothpick*

Trifle

 

[PrincessInOz]

And my very tame category stretch for the week….I’m claiming points for this!

Finger Painting*

I also swiped this shot from the school hall during the Trivia Night

 

[shushh]

PrincessInOz I love your tenacity!

 

[PrincessInOz]

PrincessInOz I love your tenacity!

Thanks....but I think you mean my blind obsession for posting something against every category !

I've been very lucky with some of the categories and being in the right place at the wrong time; or the wrong place at the right time.
I found the bagpiper today by pure chance....don't you love the leather look?

 

[shushh]

Awaken

Cemetery

Ornate gravestone*

Argyle

Quietude

UPS driver* I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this. Unfortunately I was in the middle of orientating someone new at the office. I'm sure she thought I was crazy when I asked to give me 2 minutes while I quickly took a photo...

Pail and shovel in sand At the beautiful Bronte Beach

 

[shushh]

Horizon

 

[lovesdumbo]

The categories of Needlepoint and Craftsperson at Work comes to my mind . Or...you could always stretch Attractive

Hope your 'not' bunion is feeling better.

Too late for needlepoint as I didn't take a photo til the stitches were out. But that does remind me that I need to take a picture of some needlepoint.

I only took a photo of the foot so no craftsperson-hmmm....maybe I could take a photo of him removing the pin. Actually I don't think I"ll get the pin out until September so I think you're all safe!

Attractive is a real stretch for now. It still looks pretty nasty now but it looks amazing to me to see the foot with no bunion.

Loving all your photos and justifications! I noticed that leather kilt!

 

[mer1015]

Octogenarian

 

[NateNLogansDad]

Zig Zag

UPSDriver
He even stopped and turned off the truck so I could snap a shot off. Very nice guy!

Undercarriage
Underneath a tractor trailer.

 

[NateNLogansDad]

So, this weekend I may have thrown away my chances but it was well worth it. My beautiful wonderful wife of 7 years is turning 30 next week and I surprised her with a trip to Boston on Friday, just the two of us. She had a job interview Friday morning and when she walked in the door I told her there was a bag packed in the car and she had 10 minutes to think of anything else she needed and we were off. I did bring her pocket camera but I left my camera at home on purpose. This trip was about her, not my pictures. Of course when we got there I saw SO MANY things worth so many points and after a few snapshots, her battery died

Here's a few I grabbed........
Airplane inside with pilot

For no points, but I wanted to share. Myself in the Captain's Chair........

Celebrity
I'm not good with who's who but they blocked off all of the outside dinning for an interview with this guy. The staff wasn't allowed to talk about who he was. If you know, please speak up!

Empty
Flying over top the newest soccer stadium PPL Park. Open now for about a month in Chester, PA.

Foggy
Riding down I-95 and the fog was coming in across the water

Sunrise
Sunrise over Logan Airport.

Two more from this weekend. NO POINTS because they have already been done.

Emergency
This guy's mast bent in half while out on the water. We past him while out on a sunset cruise this weekend.

Bridge
Flying over top of the Commodore Barry Bridge on the Delaware River from the PA side.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

For no points, but I wanted to share. Myself in the Captain's Chair........

OK, so how did you manage that??

 

[NateNLogansDad]

OK, so how did you manage that??

I'm very talented

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I'm very talented

LOL - apparently so.

So tell us about your trip to Boston!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

SoFor no points, but I wanted to share. Myself in the Captain's Chair........

That so funny! I haven't gotten around to posting any of my photos yet but I have been taking some. The Captain wanted me to get into the chair too! I declined but he insisted that at least I come into the cockpit and get my picture taken with him.

So - here's my pilot in the airplane:

And me with the pilot in the airplane:

Gotta love that airline.

 

[NateNLogansDad]

LOL - apparently so.

So tell us about your trip to Boston!

Tina isn't big on birthday parties and loves to travel, so I got her parents to watch the boys for us and I planned a surprise trip for just the two of us. Since we've only ever went anywhere one other time overnight without the kids, I didn't want to push it too long. It was just overnight but it was 100% perfect. We had lunch at PHL airport around noon and arrived in Boston around 2:30. Checked in at the Hyatt an hr later. Dinner was at 5 downstairs in the restaurant overlooking the water. I had some of the best chowder of my life but I decided the conversation was better than any picture I could ever take...even if it was going to cost me some points . From there we took a water taxi to a Sunset Cruise I had booked. Our captain told us about all of Boston's Colonial history and it was extremely fascinating. After dark we came back to port and shared some touristy drinks in an outdoors bar. Water Taxi'd back to the hotel and we sampled some cocktails by moonlight at a private table outside.
The next morning I went out for a stroll before our flight home and it was so nice. Tina never even knew I was gone We made it home yesterday evening to catch my Godson's birthday party. If we had more time, I would have loved to spend one more night. However, even though it was never a place we'd ever thought to visit before, it's definitely a place we will be back to visit again.

 

[NateNLogansDad]

Gotta love that airline.

I do! I've flown with them 4 times in 2 years now and think they are awesome! Before that, never been on a plane that I can remember. I'm hoping that their policies stay the same, but I'm hearing rumors they may start charging for bags......

 

[lovesdumbo]

got a few more photos uploaded

Backwards

Carousel

Clown

Fruit-my coworkers sent me this after my surgery-aren't they great?

Irritable-tried to take a photo of the kids on the top of the Contemporary and they all puts their hands over the face as I snapped the photo. This might make a good Christmas card photo.

Longhorns