I'm helping put together the new Rail Passengers Association (NARP) website, and we need photos! I'm hoping that you can help us out. https://www.narprail.org/news/blog/contest-your-view-from-the-train/
Yes, it absolutely is. I wasn't involved in developing the logo, but it's my understanding that it's about the passengers, and what they experience from the train. I know it's heretical to say this in some quarters, but most passengers could care less about what the equipment looks like from the outside--for them, it's about the scenery and the experience.I'm a bit confused. Ok maybe more than a bit. But, that isn't about trains!
On one's own Facebook or Twitter feeds. Winners will be asked to provide a full-resolution image.Are photo submissions to be offered on one's own facebook/twitter, etc feeds or the pages for NARP?
No. In fact, the website will not use images in the window. Images will be used as backgrounds instead. The window concept will be used for other materials such as print brochures.Does the "window" need to be added as a frame for photo submissions?
Oh, the contest is certainly about trains. But, my heavy confusion isn't. Do you have the name of a good psychiatrist, per chance? (That might make a mighty good prize, actually!)Yes, it absolutely is. I wasn't involved in developing the logo, but it's my understanding that it's about the passengers, and what they experience from the train. I know it's heretical to say this in some quarters, but most passengers could care less about what the equipment looks like from the outside--for them, it's about the scenery and the experience!I'm a bit confused. Ok maybe more than a bit. But, that isn't about trains!
Not an expert (by a long shot), but the "window" theme does not say "train" to me. It could be a bus. It could be an RV. It could be anything rectangular. The old logo said train, and it's futuristic design implied modern relevance.For most passenger associations just a stylized initials seems to serve fine as a logo. The window theme is a bit off the beaten path admittedly. But IMHO it is neither horribly better or worse than a stylized artwork of the nose of a train or some such.
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The logo is the window frame. You cannot have a registered logo with an arbitrary random picture according to anyone's whim of the moment associated with it. I will let Charlie go into that and the discussion that ensued at the Council meeting on that matter, instead of discussing more important issues, if Charlie cares to, that is.I'm confused, too. The only photo I see is a rectangular window with "Columbia River Basin" at the bottom--is that just an example of the format, and you are to do your own picture?
The photo shown actually looks like the alien blob in a Star Trek Next Generation episode, where the blob had captured Diana and kept sliding back and forth so she couldn't get back to her friends. So, as is, it would have more to do with star ships than with trains.)
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