Here is your assignment. Each shot will be judged on a point system as well as for composition and originality:
•Most expensive pizza slice — cheese only: The price of a slice of plain old cheese pizza is always creeping up. What's the highest you can find? (Hint: $2 probably won't win.) - 5 points
•Most unusual-looking fruit or vegetable for sale: If it can get through customs, it's somewhere in this city. - 5 points
•The A.T.M. charging you the most outrageous amount for a withdrawal: $2 minimum. - 5 points
•Most newspaper/magazine dispensers on one street corner: They're often chained together, and the ones with things you'd actually want to read are empty or require your pockets to be jingle-jangle-jingling with quarters. - 5 points
•Most out-of-town and/or foreign language newspapers at one newsstand: In some parts of town, you'd think fans of Le Monde and La Gazzetta dello Sport and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung had never heard of the Internet. - 5 points
•Cheesiest Statue of Liberty-related tourist souvenir. - 5 points
•Multiple Starbucks in one picture: Two, certainly; three is a challenge. - 2 points
•Best parallel parking job: The city's drivers know that if a parking space is an inch longer than their car, they can ooze in. Be sure to photograph both the front and back ends. - 5 points
•Vehicle with multiple parking tickets: The easy-to-spot orange envelopes should be on the windshield or clearly visible inside the car. Old tickets that truck drivers place to avoid reticketing are valid, as are tickets ripped apart in rage. - 8 points
•Most yellow cabs in one photo: No fair taking an aerial shot from the top of the Empire State Building. - 5 points
•Most unlikely companions: Some New York restaurants specialize in unusual wine and food pairings, but the entire city specializes in unusual people pairings. Is that fashionable babe really dating that pitiful slob? Is that silver-haired guy about three times that woman's age? Is that a rabbi necking with a Senegalese hair stylist? - 10 points (100 points for the last one.)
•Worst dressed tourist. - 5 points
•Best-dressed dog: And by that, we mean worst-dressed dog. Alt – lap dog in a designer handbag. - 5 points
•Most dogs with one human: In New York, money buys anything, including the guy or gal who comes to your house, picks up your dog and drags it and a bunch of others to the park. Absolute minimum: four dogs. - 8 points
•Pedestrian triple-tasking: Someone doing at least three things at once, one of which is walking down the street — plus eating and talking on cellphone; listening to iPod and reading magazine; or knitting and screaming at friend. - 10 points
•Pedestrian stupid-tasking. Someone who is text-messaging while crossing a hyper-busy street, something that could soon be illegal in New York City. - 5 points
•Picture of a celebrity on the street. Less points for celeb look-a-like. - 10 points celeb; 5 points look-a-like
•Picture of a person who makes you say “Whoa look at that guy!” - 5 points (10 for judge's favorite!)
•Worst dressed tourist. - 5 points
•A subway performer of some kind – musician, homeless man begging for money, or religious zealot. - 5 points
•Someone using a pay phone: Not too common these days; even less common, two people using adjacent pay phones (double points). - 2 points
•A traffic police officer smiling: It's a tough life giving out tickets to the roughly seven million cars that are breaking parking laws at any one time. Subjected to nasty looks and verbal lashings, these officers don't have much to smile about. - 5 points
•Anyone wearing George W. Bush paraphernalia (hat, T-shirt, full body tattoo): Manhattan voted 82 percent to 17 percent for John Kerry over Mr. Bush in 2004. The word on the street is that the president's popularity has not increased. - 10 points
•Public advertisements or notices in languages other than English: one point for each language. Spanish is a freebie, kind of like the space in the middle of a bingo card. (Starting clue: Check out the signs about being in one of the first five cars on the No. 1 train to South Ferry.) - 8 points
•Most amusing spelling or translation error: Combine immigrant store owners with immigrant sign makers and what do you get? An entrepreneurial spirit that keeps the city's economic engine humming? Yeah, sure, but also errors terrible enough to drive language sticklers insane. - 10 points (judges favorite gets 10 extra)
•Most monstrous baby stroller: It's not that strollers aren't monstrous everywhere, but here the sidewalks, store aisles and bystander tolerance are narrower. - 5 points
•Most unusual piece of refuse: A city that collects the strangest things also discards the strangest things, and they don't all fit in a trash bag. - 5 points (judges favorite gets 5 extra)
•New York is know for discovering famous musicians. Snap a shot of a famous venue where a rock star was discovered. - 5 points
•Famous TV or Movie Landmark. Aka - Carrie Bradshaw’s brownstone, Ghostbusters firehouse, Building used as friends exterior, etc.. - 5 points
•Graffiti – it’s everywhere – but, only the most artistic mural will win! - 5 points (5 extra for judges favorite)
•New York is full of famous skyscrapers, but how many people think of castles? Well there’s a few! Snap a shot of a castle… extra credit if you’re wearing pirate gear ;) - 5 points
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Here is your assignment. Each shot will be judged on a point system as well as for composition and originality:
•Most expensive pizza slice — cheese only: The price of a slice of plain old cheese pizza is always creeping up. What's the highest you can find? (Hint: $2 probably won't win.) - 5 points
•Most unusual-looking fruit or vegetable for sale: If it can get through customs, it's somewhere in this city. - 5 points
•The A.T.M. charging you the most outrageous amount for a withdrawal: $2 minimum. - 5 points
•Most newspaper/magazine dispensers on one street corner: They're often chained together, and the ones with things you'd actually want to read are empty or require your pockets to be jingle-jangle-jingling with quarters. - 5 points
•Most out-of-town and/or foreign language newspapers at one newsstand: In some parts of town, you'd think fans of Le Monde and La Gazzetta dello Sport and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung had never heard of the Internet. - 5 points
•Cheesiest Statue of Liberty-related tourist souvenir. - 5 points
•Multiple Starbucks in one picture: Two, certainly; three is a challenge. - 2 points
•Best parallel parking job: The city's drivers know that if a parking space is an inch longer than their car, they can ooze in. Be sure to photograph both the front and back ends. - 5 points
•Vehicle with multiple parking tickets: The easy-to-spot orange envelopes should be on the windshield or clearly visible inside the car. Old tickets that truck drivers place to avoid reticketing are valid, as are tickets ripped apart in rage. - 8 points
•Most yellow cabs in one photo: No fair taking an aerial shot from the top of the Empire State Building. - 5 points
•Most unlikely companions: Some New York restaurants specialize in unusual wine and food pairings, but the entire city specializes in unusual people pairings. Is that fashionable babe really dating that pitiful slob? Is that silver-haired guy about three times that woman's age? Is that a rabbi necking with a Senegalese hair stylist? - 10 points (100 points for the last one.)
•Worst dressed tourist. - 5 points
•Best-dressed dog: And by that, we mean worst-dressed dog. Alt – lap dog in a designer handbag. - 5 points
•Most dogs with one human: In New York, money buys anything, including the guy or gal who comes to your house, picks up your dog and drags it and a bunch of others to the park. Absolute minimum: four dogs. - 8 points
•Pedestrian triple-tasking: Someone doing at least three things at once, one of which is walking down the street — plus eating and talking on cellphone; listening to iPod and reading magazine; or knitting and screaming at friend. - 10 points
•Pedestrian stupid-tasking. Someone who is text-messaging while crossing a hyper-busy street, something that could soon be illegal in New York City. - 5 points
•Picture of a celebrity on the street. Less points for celeb look-a-like. - 10 points celeb; 5 points look-a-like
•Picture of a person who makes you say “Whoa look at that guy!” - 5 points (10 for judge's favorite!)
•Worst dressed tourist. - 5 points
•A subway performer of some kind – musician, homeless man begging for money, or religious zealot. - 5 points
•Someone using a pay phone: Not too common these days; even less common, two people using adjacent pay phones (double points). - 2 points
•A traffic police officer smiling: It's a tough life giving out tickets to the roughly seven million cars that are breaking parking laws at any one time. Subjected to nasty looks and verbal lashings, these officers don't have much to smile about. - 5 points
•Anyone wearing George W. Bush paraphernalia (hat, T-shirt, full body tattoo): Manhattan voted 82 percent to 17 percent for John Kerry over Mr. Bush in 2004. The word on the street is that the president's popularity has not increased. - 10 points
•Public advertisements or notices in languages other than English: one point for each language. Spanish is a freebie, kind of like the space in the middle of a bingo card. (Starting clue: Check out the signs about being in one of the first five cars on the No. 1 train to South Ferry.) - 8 points
•Most amusing spelling or translation error: Combine immigrant store owners with immigrant sign makers and what do you get? An entrepreneurial spirit that keeps the city's economic engine humming? Yeah, sure, but also errors terrible enough to drive language sticklers insane. - 10 points (judges favorite gets 10 extra)
•Most monstrous baby stroller: It's not that strollers aren't monstrous everywhere, but here the sidewalks, store aisles and bystander tolerance are narrower. - 5 points
•Most unusual piece of refuse: A city that collects the strangest things also discards the strangest things, and they don't all fit in a trash bag. - 5 points (judges favorite gets 5 extra)
•New York is know for discovering famous musicians. Snap a shot of a famous venue where a rock star was discovered. - 5 points
•Famous TV or Movie Landmark. Aka - Carrie Bradshaw’s brownstone, Ghostbusters firehouse, Building used as friends exterior, etc.. - 5 points
•Graffiti – it’s everywhere – but, only the most artistic mural will win! - 5 points (5 extra for judges favorite)
•New York is full of famous skyscrapers, but how many people think of castles? Well there’s a few! Snap a shot of a castle… extra credit if you’re wearing pirate gear ;) - 5 points
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