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What do you do with you credentials?
Steven Bisig, Photographer
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 2:32 PM on 06.25.11 |
->> Do any of you do anything creative with your credentials after credentialed assignment is completed?
I have saved pretty much all of mine from various assignments and trying to think of something cool to do with them.
steven b~ |
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John Pyle, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | Ca | USA | Posted: 2:46 PM on 06.25.11 |
| ->> I have often thought the same thing. Obviously some team/event credentials are more significant than others. Might be cool to make a collage of a bunch of credentials and frame it. Or make a print of your favorite image from an event and frame it along with the credential from the event. The UFC and NASCAR have some nice big photo passes that would work nicely for this. |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 3:06 PM on 06.25.11 |
| ->> I had a bunch of my old ones framed from big events. They actually look pretty cool and I'm considering having another one made with more recent ones. |
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Jeff Gammons, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Niceville | Fl | USA | Posted: 3:14 PM on 06.25.11 |
| ->> I only have enough to fit on a single lanyard... so they are still just around my neck... |
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Derek Montgomery, Photographer
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Michael Johnson, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Geneseo | NY | USA | Posted: 3:51 PM on 06.25.11 |
->> I save every one.... including the hand written one (on the back of a business card) that was give out in 2007 at the NY State Cross Country Championships.
I plan on one day doing something like framing them but my ultimate would be have them laminated into a counter top for my bar/man cave that I hope to build in the future (key word here is hope). |
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Brian Blanco, Photographer
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Tampa / Sarasota | FL | USA | Posted: 4:20 PM on 06.25.11 |
->> I make it a point to throw mine in the trash as I'm leaving the venue, because for a while there they were cluttering up the trunk of my car something fierce... I think my car gets better gas mileage now.
Besides, I guess I'd just rather look forward to what lies ahead.
That being said, Derek, I do like your Twitter background photo. |
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Alan Look, Photographer
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Bloomington/Normal | IL | United States | Posted: 4:21 PM on 06.25.11 |
| ->> Mine are hanging by my desk just in case I need a spare sometime :) |
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Derek Montgomery, Photographer
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Duluth | MN | USA | Posted: 5:05 PM on 06.25.11 |
| ->> Thanks Brian. It was fun going through them and remembering assignments from back in the day including one to the Wisconsin Cow Chip Throwing Festival. That event is as riveting and awesome as it sounds. |
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Andrew Knapik, Photographer, Assistant
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Lincoln Park | MI | USA | Posted: 5:26 PM on 06.25.11 |
| ->> I have seen some that will have them put down and then sealed under a bar-top or a coffee table in a man-cave. They look really cool like that, but because of the process that was used, if you need to rip it up, you could not save them. |
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Nick Wass, Photographer
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Wheaton | MD | USA | Posted: 5:31 PM on 06.25.11 |
| ->> i hung mine on a xmas tree instead of ornaments one year.... |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 6:22 PM on 06.25.11 |
->> I have two bankers boxes filled with credentials...
Love the idea of Xmas tree ornaments!
Hope I'm around to start a third box... |
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Brian Westerholt, Photographer
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Kannapolis | NC | USA | Posted: 6:44 PM on 06.25.11 |
| ->> I use one of those boxes I used to use to hold the envelopes that the 4x6 prints/negatives would come in - it is over-stuffed - time to start a second box. |
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George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 6:47 PM on 06.25.11 |
| ->> I've got mine going back about 25 years in a big bag in the home-office closet. Plan on one day getting a couple of cork boards up and using them as decor in said office. |
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David A. Cantor, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Toledo | OH | USA | Posted: 8:20 PM on 06.25.11 |
| ->> Can someone tell me how to get credentials? |
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Michael Fischer, Photographer
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Spencer | Ia | USA | Posted: 10:46 PM on 06.25.11 |
->> David, Anything in particular or do you just want to start with the NFL and MLB?
Michael |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 12:08 AM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> credentials are overrated. |
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Michael Ip, Photo Editor, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 12:19 AM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> Am I the only one that throws them out? :/ |
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Doug Holleman, Photographer
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Temple | TX | USA | Posted: 2:29 AM on 06.26.11 |
->> I've kept all of mine over the years, but they're in boxes. I figured I would do something with them someday. A couple of them might even be worth something to a sports collector.
When I was a kid my friend's dad, who was a printer, made a really cool glass top coffee table filled with those old metal type letters, spelling stuff all backwards. I wish I had it now. I've always had that idea in the back of my mind for all my old credentials someday. |
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Rodrigo Pena, Photographer
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Beaumont | CA | USA | Posted: 2:50 AM on 06.26.11 |
->> I used to keep mine in a shoe box, but outgrew the box. I kept some of the cooler ones and tossed the rest.
Recently, I have been putting my decal photo credentials on the cover of my bank check book (which measures about 13.75 inches x 9.75 inches.) It just has the concerts of Elton John, Shakira, KISS, Arcade Fire and Blink 182. I should have kept some of the others, but didn't think of it earlier. |
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Paul Nelson, Photographer
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Temperance | MI | USA | Posted: 5:18 AM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> I scan them in so I have a digital copy (usually just the front), then I put them in a photo album. They don't take up nealry as much space when organized in an album and it's an easy way to flip through them for fun. |
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Jesse Jones, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Gainesville | Fl | USA | Posted: 11:25 AM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> I have thrown all of mine away with the exception of my NASA credential. Since I grew up as a bit of a science geek, my NASA credential is the only one that I have any sort of attachment for. |
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Steven Bisig, Photographer
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 12:21 PM on 06.26.11 |
->> Thanks for the ideas everyone. I thought of the placing them under sheet of glass on my coffee table, but my wife didn't care for the idea. I do have a custom kegerator that I was planning to do a nice top for, maybe that would be a good place for some.
Like the twitter background idea, may have to steal that as well as the christmas tree ornament idea.
steven b~ |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 12:43 PM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> wife + credential display (anywhere in house) = F.A.I.L. |
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Steven Bisig, Photographer
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 1:41 PM on 06.26.11 |
->> @Chuck LOL.
Not even a garage? That is pretty much the only space I have to myself. Even my office has become more of her office/spare bedroom for her friends thats visit. |
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Andrew Nelles, Photographer
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Chicago | IL | usa | Posted: 1:50 PM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> I've got a cork board in my office where I pin them up. Ran out of space on it awhile back, might need to do some editing. |
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Kevin Krows, Photographer
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Forsyth | IL | USA | Posted: 2:12 PM on 06.26.11 |
->> I sell mine on ebay with all my CPS neck straps and monpod covers. CPS stuff + old credential= UR Cool
(OK...not as funny as wife+credential display=FAIL) |
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Tony Leon, Photographer
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Whittier | CA | United States | Posted: 2:19 PM on 06.26.11 |
->> At some of the bigger events I'll have someone there take a snapshot of me on the sidelines, somewhere.
I put the credentials in a shoe box (4 filled) along with the photo, sort of a time capsule for my daughter who'll be turning four in September.
This is what my Dad used to do. |
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Derick Hingle, Photographer
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Hammond | LA | USA | Posted: 2:44 PM on 06.26.11 |
->> I have nearly every credential I was ever issued.
I love the twitter background concept and will likely borrow that type of theme, I plan on doing some sort of display myself and (my future wife) will like it along with some of my favorite images framed for display sports and non sports. The credential display will be a great piece of memorabilia to pass down in the future. |
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Jim Owens, Photographer
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Cincinnati | OH | usa | Posted: 3:30 PM on 06.26.11 |
->> David Cantor :
Brilliant. |
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Matthew Jonas, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Evergreen | CO | USA | Posted: 4:49 PM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> I have every single credential since college. I hang them on a cork board above my desk in my home office. |
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Michelle Hedstrom, Photographer
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Arvada | CO | US | Posted: 4:58 PM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> These are some great ideas. Much better than my current "sitting on my desk under all the paperwork" method. |
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Mark Goldman, Photographer
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Silver Spring | MD | USA | Posted: 9:12 PM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> Papered an entire wall in my office with them. Since it is my office the Liddy factor (wife + credential display (anywhere in house) = F.A.I.L.) is not in play. |
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James Brosher, Photographer
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Cheyenne | WY | United States | Posted: 9:13 PM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> Use them on the bio page of my website: http://www.brosher.com/bio/ |
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Darrin Spencer, Photographer
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Corbin | Ky | USA | Posted: 10:37 PM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> I have kept all mine and I have also placed them in shoe boxes and one day I plan on finding some way to display them on a coffee table of some sort and place them down in my bar area of my house. |
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Chris Pietsch, Photographer
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Luke Johnson, Photographer, Student/Intern
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St.Petersburg | FL | USA | Posted: 11:20 PM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> Mine sit in a bag in my closet. |
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Sam Morris, Photographer
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Henderson (Las Vegas) | NV | USA | Posted: 11:27 PM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> Occasionally I scoop them out of the back of my vehicle and deposit them one of the boxes I hide from my wife in the garage. "Why? Why are you keeping them? What are you going to do with them?" All I can answer is, "I dunno." And then I find a new corner of the garage to tuck them into. |
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Tim Snow, Photographer
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Montreal | Qc | Canada | Posted: 11:57 PM on 06.26.11 |
| ->> All of my lanyard ones hang from a coat rack in my office, all of my stick-ons are in an Ikea box on my shelf. Snapped a shot of 'em for a lecture I gave on concert photography: http://timsnowphotography.com/passes.jpg |
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Michael Chen, Assistant, Photographer
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Saratoga | CA | USA | Posted: 12:17 AM on 06.27.11 |
->> I'm definitely considering stealing Derek's twitter background idea, and James' bio page idea.
Right now I just give most of the fancier ones to my mother since she started saving them when I was a student. She keeps them, somewhere, in a book or something. I think she expects a print to go with each event. She has all but maybe two of the old credentials, which are missing in action, somewhere.
I don't give her the generic UCLA ones that they just stamp a date onto for non-revenue sports. I lost count of how many of those I had; despite throwing them out I still find them everywhere... |
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Clark Brooks, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 9:58 AM on 06.27.11 |
->> Like Matthew and Derick I have nearly every cred I've been issued as most are contractual agreements and I treat them as such in case they may prove useful in a future dispute.
That said, one of my plans is to scan mine and use them to create lens hood wraps to dress up my long glass. Also, thought about using on the next set of rain covers I need to make for my lenses as well. |
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T.J. Hamilton, Photographer
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Grand Rapids | MI | USA | Posted: 2:32 PM on 06.27.11 |
| ->> I stick them on the back of that days mileage I record in my mileage notebook. So when Im old and grey, I'll go back through those notebooks. |
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Juerg Schreiter, Photographer
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Fort Lauderdale | FL | USA | Posted: 3:19 PM on 06.27.11 |
| ->> I sell them to the P&S crowd, tell they can just have them re stamped at the entrance. :-) |
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Jeff Snyder, Photographer
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Metro DC Region | MD | USA | Posted: 5:11 PM on 06.27.11 |
| ->> Laid a pile of them out on a 48x40" coffee table, and laid a piece of glass over them in our living room...Great conversation piece, plus I can add/change them up whenever I want |
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Doug Holleman, Photographer
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Temple | TX | USA | Posted: 5:38 PM on 06.27.11 |
| ->> Put them around a square game board and make a Monopod-opoly game and sell it to Sportsshooter members. The Olympics would be Boardwalk, and WNBA would be Baltic avenue or something. Network TV all access or NFL Films would be the get out of jail free card. |
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Doug Holleman, Photographer
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Temple | TX | USA | Posted: 5:40 PM on 06.27.11 |
| ->> Chance card: "You just got paid $25 for a photo in Bob's College Football Magazine and lost $325 in expenses! Do not pass Go! Do not Collect $200!" |
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Angus Mordant, Student/Intern
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Sydney | NSW Australia | Australia | Posted: 5:52 PM on 06.27.11 |
->> Jeff, Great to see the two Sydney 2000 Lanyards stood out as the first 2 I saw!
Although I so far don't have many I just keep them on a pin board above my desk. |
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