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From: "Alexander D. Mitchell IV" <lner4472@b...>
To: "ObsCarList" <ObservationCar@yahoogroups.com>,
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:35:06 -0400
Subject: [ObservationCar] PHOTO CALL--Railroad Stations
Message-ID: <000f01c1430f$41d17120$777ef2d0@d...>
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Okay, fellow photographers (especially you lurkers, you know who you
are)..........
Wanna get published in a book?
Once again I'm saving a lowly publisher's butt, salvaging a book project
abandoned by another unknown writer.
This book is a bargain coffee-table book on railroad stations of North
America (emphasis on the USA). Methinks Barnes & Noble is the big
customer.
I have one photographer's archive of slides I'm drawing from, as well as
several other archives to draw from (Library of Congress, etc.) for
vintage stuff, and my own stuff to draw from and some photos in mind I'm
going to go out and shoot (Ellicott City, Md., Baltimore's President St.
Station, etc.). I can certainly put together a "salvageable" project on
what I have before me.
But I could sure use more. (But they max out at 100 photos, so......)
Wanted: Nice station photos. Stations big (Grand Central) and small
(believe it or not, I want a good "Amshack" photo). In rail use, Amtrak,
commuter, restaurant, store, brewery, information center, town hall,
museum, fire station, whatever. If trains are in the shot, it has to be
a minor element, not the major element (we don't care if it's the Conrail
OCS passing an Amtrak special on the Delmarva Peninsula, can we see the
station? That was one of mine I just rejected.....). I even have room
for a few derelict station shots. Consider this a photo contest--sharp
and colorful only, please.
I'd like to think I have the Northeast covered, but surprise me. Biggest
vacancies--Western and Midwest stuff. Florida, too.
Don't torture me by sending 500 shots. E-mail me and tell me what you
have and how soon you can have something to me. Time is unfortunately of
the essence.
Pay: A copy of the book with a $10 bill for the first photo, and $20 per
photo for each slide used from there; or all cash. More for
extra-specially good photos, like night shots, O. Winston Link-style
synchro flash, or whatever. Yeah, I know, a pittance. But more than
I'll make from this project, I'm betting.
I really would prefer to get new names in the credit lines. All else
being precisely equal, I'll take "History Boy" Kos over Jim Boyd or some
lurker whose name I don't recognize over Bruce Kelly. (The trouble is
getting the "precisely equal" part.) So, everybody, please consider
themselves equal, and go down and shoot your hometown depot or the
nearest nice one.
Media: 35mm slides or top-resolution digital files. Big prints or
medium/large format considered upon request.
I'd rather discuss what you have and/or what you can shoot before you
take the trouble to actually mail anything or shoot. My e-mail address
is below.
Thanks in advance!
Alexander D. Mitchell IV
LNER4472@b...
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freedom of expression which photography falls under--Wesley Fox
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