ok, the time has come…..please send now your work for this forum……20 picture limit please….within this framework you can submit 20 unrelated singles, or any combo of "essays" but not to exceed 20 pictures in all…in other words an "essay" could be five- 4 picture combos or 20 coherent photographs or two essays of 10 each or whatever…
if you are new here, and have no clue what i am talking about, then it is probably too late for you this time around anyway…but , a little research might be helpful for you anyway…see posts june 2 "collaboration", july 12 "your work", july 18 "timing" and july 24 "psyched" and , oh yes, a piece i wrote titled "in flight reading" sometime back in the spring might be helpful too…
i am interested in any type of photography that speaks to your "authorship"….so, you could submit black & white landscapes or conflict in iraq or the life of your dog on the back porch….subject matter does not matter….you matter….your perspective, your point of view on something with either journalistic relevance, subjective interpretation or purely artistic merit…….
we will have a 10 day window for submission….these are all supposed to be photographs you made since the july 15 announcement of this project…give or take just a little…they will be displayed on a new page of this site…eventually hopefully to print….but honestly, how far we can take this totally depends on how good the material coming to me will be….we will soon find out….
my goal, as all of you know, is to create enough interest in this way of working and in this site to have corporate and private funders contribute to the non-profit fund i am setting up (about 3 wks away) , so that this financial support would go directly back to you to finance one of your projects…sort of half stipend/half assignment….
the submission now has been basically a goodwill "test" for both of us…
ironically , but perfectly, a small corporate funding is moving quickly in our direction..this just happened since my last post…..this will be deposited into the non-profit account for eventual awarding to the most talented of you…i am in a bit of a dilemma because it comes at the end of our "deadline" rather than as an incentive at the beginning….
so, i honestly must just decide how to use it….but, since we are where we are anyway, let me just start looking at what comes in from you…before promising any awards..fair enough?? it may be more intelligent to let funding build…. i mean, we have done this whole thing without any thought to any of us for financial reward anyway…this whole exercise and forum has been a "work in progress" all along….i am also ready to answer any questions you may have…..
the "window" for submission is wide enough to give me time to think….and to see what you have done…
show me, show me….tell me , tell me
Submission Guidelines
1) Resize all images to be 2,000 pixels on the longest side
2) Input your copyright and description into the images metadata.
3) Save as a JPG with a quality of 10 or higher. (Best Quality)
4) Name all images with your last name then first name and sequential number. (Smith_John_001.jpg)
5) Put all images into a folder on your desktop with your first and last name on it.
6) Now you are ready to upload to Digital Railroad you will need an ftp client program.
Here are 2 free ftp programs you can download and use if you do not have one.
http://cyberduck.ch/ (for Mac users) http://filezilla-project.org/ (for PC or Mac users)
7) FTP info
Host: ftp.digitalrailroad.net
Login: davidalanharvey-septblog
Password: Upload
8) Please upload your folder into the September Submissions Folder on the ftp site.
just an FYI – You don’t need a dedicated FTP program if you are using Windows. Just open Explorer and type in http://ftp.digitalrailroad.net
Igor,
I have all of yours.
Michael
Akaky,
Let me know if you will be able to ftp. If not we will figure some way to get you images to us.
Thanks,
Michael
Hi Michael & David,
i’m late to know about this good news. I’ve tried to find out when is the deadline to send some pictures. can you tell me once again when is the deadline?
thanks,
suryo
Michael Couvoursier : Now that you confirm to me that I can still send pictures ( I had posted 14 pictures- so I can send another 6) my question for you is : I make the upload with 6 pictures or I put them into a folder?
suryo…
you have about one more week to get everything in…please read previous posts about what do do and how this project evolved…it is all in the “flood gates” post from a few days ago…
vlad
it is sunday morning and i think michael is sleeping….he is the expert on this , but i think if you just make a new posting with 6 new pictures, we will be able to put it all together with no problem…
Vlad,
You can just upload the pictures. Just try to keep the numbers going in the sequence.
Thanks,
Michael
Thanks Mchael,
Ciao
Igor
Michael,
Did you get 20 from me? The transfer seemed to be simple.
also…I left you a message from Jerry under Tango.
Thanks.
Cathy
ATTENTION FTP INFO CHANGE
I have changed the ftp info slightly so that I can keep the new stuff separate. Just trying to start a system to keep the new stuff separate from the organized uploads.
http://ftp.digitalrailroad.net
login : davidalanharvey-blog
password : upload
Thanks,
Michael
I just uploaded my photos – I’m curious what’s happening next.
Akaky,
Don’t know if you will see this since there are newer threads that are more active…but I had to let you know I appreciate the irony of your memo. A very funny story although I’m sure not so funny to you!
I hope you’re able to work something out.
Michael:
I have been trying to upload my folder Atkins_Sidney with 20 photos using Cyberduck. I am able to login to the (new) ftp address but as soon as I try to upload the folder I keep gettin disconnected with the message ‘connection refused’. This happened many times now. Any ideas what to try next?
Sidney
I also have the same problem only i cant access the http://ftp.digitalrailroad.net at all on two different computers ? HELP
Dear Michael/David….I have just uploaded 19 images into the ‘Submissions’ folder. Noticed a couple of other people were having problems with the ‘new’ ftp details. For the record, mine went through smoothly. All the best. Sean
Dear All,
This is just to say that all of the other methods suggested for FTP’ing failed for me, as did the version of Cyberduck I was using on my OSX Mac. However, when I downloaded the latest version of Cyberduck (2.8) the upload worked smoothly and perfectly. I couldn’t make the upload work by FTP’ing directly from Safari or IE webpage, although I did once get as far as the Submissions folder — I just couldn’t put anything into it (I kept getting a message that it could not be changed).
I guess the message is PERSIST and also use latest versions of the available software.
regards–
alun
Hi, Michael C.,
Uploaded two folders using your new FTP info, the first has 9 photos and the second has two. I hope you got them.
Regards,
Jeryc
Hi Michael, I am not new with ftp but this is first time I use Cyberduck on my macbook, there is a error in connection: login incorrent
server : http://ftp.digitalrailroad.net
username : davidalanharvey-septblog
password : upload
what is the problem?
I just saw the 17 september comment Micheal it’s ok now
Thanks
Hi,
I’m a huge admirer of Mr Harvey’s work and that’s what led me to join this blogsite.
I’ve just uploaded my work but I cant tell if it got uploaded correctly.
Regards,
Bikram