Photo Challenge: My commute
I try to take different routes to work to break up the monotony of the drive (not that I have a whole lot of choices unless I want to extend my commute to more than an hour). I'm also reading a book called The Artist's Way that's essentially a 12-week course on how to drag the creativity that's inside all of us out into the open. (Anybody else ever read it?)
One of the lessons deals with paying attention - close, careful attention -- to everything around you. So on my way to work each day, taking different routes, I've been practicing that while hoping I don't smash into the car in front of me. At this time of year it's hard not to notice the magnolias and dogwoods in bloom, the runners and bikers out in force, and even the pothole crews. But what else do you see on your commute that may seem mundane, but is actually photo-worthy?
For the next three weeks, until Friday, May 14, we're collecting great photos from your commute. If you don't commute because you work at home or are retired, then pick a route you travel frequently -- your daily walk, the roads you travel to take your kids to school, even the trip to the supermarket. If you can't stop on your way to or from work to take a picture, or don't have time, then return to that spot on your day off and spend more time composing your photo.
When you upload your photo, make sure you write a caption that describes the location of the photo, as well as your name and town. Your Boston.com screen name also will be published with your photo.
Choose your single best shot, one per photographer, and upload to this gallery.
NOTE: This is not one of our monthly contests. Our April contest, with the theme Doorways, is in full swing. In fact, you can see all the submissions so far -- 131 as of this morning! - on this Flickr search results page.
OK, start the challenge -- and pay attention!
Hey,
The gallery is incorrectly cropping photos. You might want to look into that.
Thanks...
You're right, photog ... I'll report that right away. Thanks for the heads up.
when I get to "upload" the "browse" does not work, although I'm logged in. ??
Try re-loading or starting over from the RAW page, Tim ... or if you're using two monitors, see if the Browse window popped up on the other one. That happens to me a lot, I'm embarrassed to say.
Love this idea! I'm going to check out that book, too, as I have been feeling a bit stuck...
It's a great book, The Artist's Way. Worth reading.
I'm retired and as much as I love it, I do miss my commute for the beauty of the seasons in the early morning hours. Being a little late to work was worth it if I saw something I just had to pull over and capture with my camera.
Nice photo theme. Looking forward to the results.
i dunno lol
Teresa,
Can they do anything about the performance of the gallery? I don't know about others, but it's horrendous when I try to view the gallery.
Ah, Dan, your PC may have trouble with Flash galleries ... can you be more specific about the issue you're having? Is it taking awhile to load?
The gallery has something wrong with it. It's taking upwards of 10 minutes to load each photo, and sometimes it just shows a blank page. (I'm running a Mac with Safari and Firefox). The problem seems to be when connecting to two servers: "cache.boston.com" and it is particularly bad on "dev.bostonworks.boston.com"
The pages are taking upwards of 5 minutes to load. I'm running both Safari and Firefox ono a Mac. The trouble seems to be coming from dev.bostonworks.boston.com. My browser hangs for 80% of the time on "contacting dev.bostonworks.boston.com", then loads the rest of the page pretty quickly once it gets past that.
Dan and Mark, we removed the reference to the server dev.bostonworks.boston.com -- please tell me if the gallery loads better for you now.
the performance is better.. Mark had the same symptom. It was hanging at dev.bostonworks.boston.com.
Just realized the gallery shrank my photo by cropping it. Not cool.
This blogger might want to review your comment before posting it.
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