TPF Photo Challenge -March '13- "New Beginning"

manaheim · Mar 10, 2013

Great!!! We're 1/3 of the way through the month, folks!

terri · Mar 10, 2013

So happy to see the interest and read about all the entries pouring in! :lovey:

brookiepictures · Mar 12, 2013

Did anyone ever say if we could do the three pictures as one image? I didn't see an answer

sm4him · Mar 12, 2013

manaheim said:
Great!!! We're 1/3 of the way through the month, folks!

Ack!!!! The pressure!! I've got to get my photo done!!

:biglaugh:

pgriz · Mar 14, 2013

Wasn't getting a lot of brilliant inspiration for making something that would pass for "new beginning", so just for giggles, I googled the term in the Images section (of google). Hmmm. It seems that 90% of the images had hands holding plants/seeds/little hands. Quite a few sunrises. A few doors, rainbows, bridges, even a railway. Is there anything in the rules that says if its been done a thousand times it's automatically disqualified? Because if not, I might be tempted to ask my wife to loan me her potting pot.

sm4him · Mar 14, 2013

pgriz said:
Wasn't getting a lot of brilliant inspiration for making something that would pass for "new beginning", so just for giggles, I googled the term in the Images section (of google). Hmmm. It seems that 90% of the images had hands holding plants/seeds/little hands. Quite a few sunrises. A few doors, rainbows, bridges, even a railway. Is there anything in the rules that says if its been done a thousand times it's automatically disqualified? Because if not, I might be tempted to ask my wife to loan me her potting pot.

Nope nothing in the rules that says you can't just aim for the cliche of all cliches--but I'm planning to do one with a little baby holding a small budding plant, standing in an open doorway with a rainbow in the distance, so please don't take that one. :lmao:

mishele · Mar 14, 2013

Paul, I can't submit any shots but I'm having fun on my own trying to figure out a creative angle on New Beginning. I was looking at the emotional paths that different people take in their lives. Some people fight addiction (smoking, drugs, alcohol) and work through them and have a new beginning. People get married...find god...move...new job...divorce...graduate from school... all could be considered a "New Beginning".
Any hoot, just some ideas. :greenpbl:

pgriz · Mar 14, 2013

Thanks, Mish. Oh I have ideas, all right, but trying hard to avoid the obvious. But I'm glad Sharon will have covered all the bases with her submission. Maybe if she doesn't win the challenge, there an award for ckecking off the most cliches in one image (sorry Sharon, just running with the idea you posted

). That has to show some inventiveness, no?

As for my idea, it may be "original" but it may also be so obscure that puzzled headscratching may be the only way to respond. We'll see. :lol:

Edit (borrowing/buying/stealing the necessary props, looking for a caterer to hire, also bus, and looking for a studio that can accommodate a 36' backdrop... Still working on the model releases and publishing and video rights.) :biggrin:

PixelRabbit · Mar 14, 2013

pgriz said:
Wasn't getting a lot of brilliant inspiration for making something that would pass for "new beginning", so just for giggles, I googled the term in the Images section (of google). Hmmm. It seems that 90% of the images had hands holding plants/seeds/little hands. Quite a few sunrises. A few doors, rainbows, bridges, even a railway. Is there anything in the rules that says if its been done a thousand times it's automatically disqualified? Because if not, I might be tempted to ask my wife to loan me her potting pot.

I'm having a hard time also and did the same search lol!!
I'm at a total loss thus far.

mishele · Mar 14, 2013

Look up "Beginning" in a thesaurus and search some of the words you find.
It's what I used to do when I played FightClub.

sm4him · Mar 14, 2013

mishele said:
Paul, I can't submit any shots but I'm having fun on my own trying to figure out a creative angle on New Beginning. I was looking at the emotional paths that different people take in their lives. Some people fight addiction (smoking, drugs, alcohol) and work through them and have a new beginning. People get married...find god...move...new job...divorce...graduate from school... all could be considered a "New Beginning".
Any hoot, just some ideas. :greenpbl:

SHHH!! Be quiet...lest you accidentally give out what someone else has already brilliantly come up with! :lmao: Just kidding.

My ACTUAL idea is, I think, going to be fairly original...I'm just afraid that it's going to be pretty poorly executed, because I can see it in the "art" part of my head, but then the "intellect" part of my head keeps interrupting with the information that I don't actually have the skills to pull off what the art part of my head is seeing. And it's right, dagnabit--but that's not gonna keep me from trying. And then when it fails miserably, I'll just submit the baby holding a sprouting plant standing in the open doorway with the rainbow in the distance shot. 'Cause THAT will be easy to pull off. :lmao:

snowbear · Mar 14, 2013

My first idea involved a junk yard.

oldhippy · Mar 14, 2013

Well I guess if Clishe's are out I can show mjne, darn double darn...lOl

bentcountershaft · Mar 14, 2013

We don't have to make it a positive beginning, do we? I like to go against the grain so my first thought was to find a clean cut teen and take shots of him snorting coke off the sidewalk in front of a strip club. Having a bit of trouble finding the right model though.