Oh please, Uncle Hugo! Could I have some more?
Posted on 04/27/2011 3:37:49 AM PDT by tobyhill
Got a camera? The Environmental Protection Agency wants you.
The federal agency has embarked on a yearlong campaign to collect photographs from across the United States and around the world for its State of the Environment Photo Project.
Launched just before Earth Day, April 22, the project is modeled after the Documerica effort during the 1970s in which the agency hired dozens of freelance photographers to capture thousands of images related to the environment and everyday life in America.
This time, the scope is global and it's driven by social media.
The EPA is calling on the masses to post their best photographs on Flickr.
In the first week, about 100 images were posted to a special group page set up through the photo sharing network. The EPA is tweeting about its favorites and sharing some of them on its Facebook page.
The images range from a hand cradling a pair of orange newts to wildflowers, fields flanked by wind turbines, smoke stacks, discarded bottles on a Massachusetts beach, school children in South Africa and wildlife at national parks.
"We want people to send us images of what they're seeing in their environment," said Jeanethe Falvey, a community involvement coordinator with the EPA. "We hope people join up on the project with the idea that we might have some more work to do but we can also see the beauty and the result of the environmental protection we've done to date."
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EPA has over step it’s ill gotten authority. Time for someone to call them out and put them out of business.
Rogue agency. In past ages somebody like Friedrich II or Tsar Peter would have shut them down in ten seconds.
The EPA is doing everything they can to make sure we turn into a third-world nation dependent on the ragheads in the Middle-East.
I agree, there is no legal reason for the EPA to even exist.
That's a good idea. If they get a million pictures of high gas price signs maybe it would pi** them off.
Let Nat Geo do this...take my tax dollars back from this gang of morons!
Oh please, Uncle Hugo! Could I have some more?
How about a picture of people in hazmat suits, cleaning up a broken CFL bulb, along with a picture of the bill for the cleanup.
send in you huntin’ pictures.. show the EPA we’re doing our part to halt the introduction of methane into the atmosphere.
Maybe a picture of Air Force 1 doing it’s unnecessary low-level photo-op fly over of New York wasting hundreds of gallons of Jet A and scaring the heck out of New Yorkers would work for them.
The EPA is way over the line, but I disagree that hey are a rogue agency.
We have a rogue Faux president, and the EPA is doing exactly what he wants them to do.
This is coming right out of the White House.
How about hundreds and hundreds of photos of clogged low-flow toilets?
Send them pictures of the US gov’t screwing up.
That would overload their servers.
Their is a long list of people who fell on the sword or pushed for Obama's career.
Reelection or EPA ?
send them gas price photos
BTTT
Got a camera? The Environmental Protection Agency wants you.The federal agency has embarked on a yearlong campaign to collect photographs from across the United States and around the world for its State of the Environment Photo Project.
COOL!
Easter Sunday I took a photo of one of my neighbors across the street who was ... SMOKING OUTSIDE (Oh the HUGH Manatee!)
I was trying out my new 70-300mm auto-focus zoom lens (w/ Macro) on my Nikon. Shot from 7' inside my house, through the patio door and screen, and the photo is almost pristine under the conditions (was overcast to boot). Made an 8x10 enlargement yesterday and the CIGARETTE is clearly seen in his hand.
So Mr Patel, you're BUSTED. The EPA wants you.
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'series', he's a very nice guy and has lived here for about 20 years.
I've got lens envy. If that's the Nikkor lens, you've got a nice piece of glass there. I think that Flickr site should be deluged with pictures of how EPA is hurting ordinary Americans.
Thanks :-) But don't have too much envy. It's not a Nikkor - I couldn't get a 2nd Mortgage to buy that one.
It's a Sigma and has a great review from dpreviews.com. And from its buyers at B&H Photo (I get all my camera equip there, including Kodak Portra Film)
However my other two auto-focus zooms for my Nikon D3000 are Nikkor, but the longest focal length of one lens max's out at *only* 200mm. I wanted 'more'.
(I specifically wanted the D3000 over others as its 'minimalistic'. I don't like or want every bell whistle and switch on my cameras. That's why I still use my Nikon FE and Spotmatic II. I control what and how I shoot)
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