Photography Blog Project: Favorite Photo and Background Story

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One of the great things about photography is that there are often some great hidden background stories. Seldom are they ever heard though unless you’re a close friend of the photographer. I thought it might be fun to have others post their favorite photograph on their blog with the story of what challenges or funny moments went into capturing it.

If you have a photography-related site, take a minute toâ€¦

- Access my Contact page
Note: Omit “http://” on any links provided until I fix my form. Oops
- In the subject line type “Favorite Photo & Story”
- In the message put the name of your site, web address, link to your “favorite photo and background story” and a one sentence description about your photo and story

The NEW deadline to take part will be THURSDAY MAY 24th at 11:59PM PST.
Saturday I’ll post a link to all submitted sites and stories.
DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR PHOTO/STORY LINK AS A COMMENT TO THIS ENTRY.
Having everyones photos and stories listed at once should make for a great weekend.

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Posted by Jim on 05.14.2007 at 12:33 am
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http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2007/05/14/my-top-5-favorite-photographs-and-accompanying-stories/ JMG-Galleries – My Top 5 Favorite Photographs and Accompanying Stories

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Photography Blog Project: Favorite Photo and Background Story

A blog project highlighting photographer’s favorite photos & background story. Contribute this week see the results of all participants this weekend.
http://www.rwongphoto.com/fieldreport Richard

I have a special image that I need to post on December 20th, can you do this again later this year?
http://www.tzplanet.com/words/story-behind-the-image/33 Story behind the image

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http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/05/14/my-favorite-photo-and-background-story/ My Favorite Photo and Background Story | Epic Edits Weblog

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http://www.gdanmitchell.com/2007/05/14#a1523 G Dan Mitchell | Photography

The Photograph, Zabriskie Point – Background Story

In response to a post a Jim Goldstein’s site , here is a background story about the photo I posted earlier today – which is part of a series including two other related photographs shown below in this post.
http://www.goldengod.net Andrew Ferguson

Hey Jim,

New reader here, found you via Brian Auer’s Epic Edits.

Saw your twitter about how you’re thinking of how to spread the word on this contest. Here’s some suggestions:

- Push the deadline back by at least a week
- Get in touch with the writers of the big photoblogs (DPS, Photocritic, Thomas Hawk, etc)
- Offer a prize for best photo/story
- Create a Flickr group
- Promote it in photography forums like dpreview

Hope that helps I’m working on my entry now.
http://www.jmg-galleries.com jim

Great feedback Andrew. I may just pursue a few of those ideas. More to come
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http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2007/05/25/21-favorite-photos-and-the-stories-behind-them/ JMG-Galleries – 21 Favorite Photos And The Stories Behind Them

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http://keen-eye.de/2007/06/11/photography-blog-projects-new-challenges/ Photography blog projects: New challenges

[...] There seem to be quite a few blog projects for photographers around lately. I just discovered Jim Goldstein’s project called “Favourite Photo and Background Story” asking people to do just that: Post their favorite photograph together with the story of how it came about and why they like it. Unfortunately, the project is closed now. The result, however, is well worth a visit: the shots and their stories how widely and excitingly different people’s attitude to life and photography are. Go and enjoy the result of Jims project in his post “21 Favorite Photos and the Stories behind them“. [...]
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http://eloquation.com/2007/05/24/favorite-photo-background-story/ Favorite Photo & Background Story | Eloquation

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