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Trapped!
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Copyright: Kathleen Amiee (SandPiper) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1215 W: 6 N: 1945] (7392)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-11-21
Categories: Humorous, Transportation, Decisive Moment
Camera: Olympus E-10, Standard Oly E-10, Compact Flash Card, Tiffen UV
Exposure: f/2, 1/25 seconds
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Lifts and Elevators, Sato: The Mechanical Bride [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2004-11-24 2:35
Viewed: 1299
Points: 26
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
I awoke in the critical unit with a sense of foreboding. I had gone to the doctor for a checkup and told I was near death and placed in the critical care unit. It wasn't too bad. I was scheduled for test. The sign for the past 24 hours on my door had read "No Food By Mouth". I questioned the horror of food any other way. They came for me. It took two hours to untangle me from all the tubes and get me in The Chair. I was pushed briskly by a young cheerful "transporter" who looked like he had never been sick a day in his life. He pushed the button to The Elevator. He deftly spun me around and pulled me into the elevator pit. Just as the door was closing a feeble, elderly man who looked like he had never been well a day in his life, hobbled in with us and pressed the down button. The elevator creaked to a start. Dropped suddenly. We were all airborne for a second. Then it stopped and bounced up and down like a well spun yo yo. The elderly man started hitting anything he could see in front of him. We began ascending. As the door began to open the man was still hitting buttons and the doors closed and down we spun and bounced again. We were hung between the 3rd and 4th floor. The elderly man was gasping for breath and now pounding the doors with his fist. It worked. We ascended and as the doors opened the old gent rushed out and we never saw him again. My annoying cheerful transporter chirped "WOW!Now didn't WE have fun!" "I am a heart patient" I mumbled thru clenched teeth. He whisked me into another elevator and we made it to the ground floor. He hit the large button that automatically opens the double doors to the X-ray lab. Nothing happened. "You must be a jinx" he chirped merrily. I glared. He banged the button with his fist. One door creaked open. He pushed me thru it, barely making it. They took X-rays. They told me I broke the processor. The films came out black. After the 4th attempt at X-Rays I was told I had broken the X-Ray machine. I was getting really funny looks by now.I was told I was being taken back to my room. The trip back was uneventful, but very quick.... My doctor was waiting in the room. He was informed of what had happened. All looked at me. "You are not coming near MY lab today" my doctor told me. "We will reschedule test for later." I wasn't feeling very well. I was a bit dizzy from the 100 mph ride back to my room. I noticed all the personnel suddenly were wearing crucifixes. I asked "Is this a Catholic hospital?" "errrrrrrr...No, Baptist" was all they would say.
I hope I don't get a bill for repair for all the equipment. I really don't think it was my fault.....
I took this photo of the interior of THE elevator at 3 AM one morning so I could relate this to you. There really isn't many photo opts in a hospital....and it really is scary to be trapped in an elevator!
Don't worry about critiques. What can you say about the inside of an elevator???? .......:O)
Quark, jmdaoudal, hojper, redvers, zto, lacouette, starkey666, muffled, tucancr, Bozzie, anneliesje has marked this note useful
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ThreadThread Starter Messages Updated
To Bozzie: So Right, Jeroen....SandPiper 1 12-15 13:58
To mike: Thank you, Michael...SandPiper 1 12-05 08:50
To balkermay: Ozur dilerim.....SandPiper 1 11-30 19:51
To eleparc: There is a difference....SandPiper 6 11-24 17:59
To muffled: Thanks, John....SandPiper 1 11-24 14:30
To Nessuno: Thanks, Wout...SandPiper 1 11-24 14:24
To pridel: Thanks,PascalSandPiper 1 11-24 14:18
To starkey666: Thanks, Dennis...SandPiper 1 11-24 14:14
To padre: Thanks, Brent...SandPiper 1 11-24 14:12
To cloverstar: Thanks, Diana...SandPiper 1 11-24 14:09
To hojper: Thank you, PerSandPiper 1 11-24 14:06
To zto: Thank you, ZandraSandPiper 1 11-24 14:03
To jmdaoudal: Thank you Jean MichelSandPiper 1 11-24 13:58
To Quark: Thanks, Hans...SandPiper 1 11-24 13:49
To BradP: Thanks Brad...SandPiper 1 11-24 13:45
To SylFondacci: Well writtten....SandPiper 1 11-24 12:58
To muffled: wear it at all timeseleparc 1 11-24 10:40
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  • BradP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 58 W: 53 N: 111] (1973)
  • [2004-11-24 2:48]
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Holy Crap Kathleen.
What else can I say, but welcome back "Home".
((Hug))

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  • Quark Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 1339 W: 10 N: 29] (66)
  • [2004-11-24 2:54]
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Woke up this morning and I'm in a "horror-story"! What a story you tell here! Amazing!
And the picture is just a picture, but after reading your words, this is a "spectacular" shot. The metal and coldness is just great now!

Happy you are back and Tu for giving a part of Urself.
Jean Michel

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  • zto Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 946 W: 120 N: 59] (262)
  • [2004-11-24 3:20]
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I know what you mean by the dizzy feeling when going back up to your room. Those elevators can really make your head spinn.
Right Kat, it's an elevator...THE elevator...thanks for sharing the story. And oh...don't think it was your fault the X-ray machine broke either...i think it takes more then a beautifull soul and a fragile hart to break a machine like that. ;)

It's not so much what you can say about the inside of an elevator, it's what you can say about what can happen inside an elevator. Great illustration of a superb story. I know you were not well, Kat, and a heart condition is a serious matter, but did it occur to you that the story about the young and the old man is also the story about the optimist and the pessimist - the healthy person without a care, without fear and constantly seeing life as a joy-ride - and the sickly person, claustrophobic and scared and in constant fear of the worst. So in spite of your condition you have given us an uplifting story about a falling elevator. That's not bad. Thank you.

As if you already weren't going through enough, and then to get stuck in an elevator, and still come out with a sense of humour. Great story to accompany the photo Kat. There are some golden hues on the elevator door, just like your personality.
Looking forward to seeing your next shot.

Hi Kath! i see your fan club is all around you now. You seem to have had a splash of a time with the baptists... how come you have your camera with you all the time including when you are near death? did they let you out from the intensive care unit in the middle of the night to shoot the elevators?? When i was hospital manager, our intensive care units patients would not have been able to escape the custody of our nursing staff... i hope you took a pic of your bed and i'd love to see the operating room too...

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  • padre Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 1419 W: 90 N: 263] (4035)
  • [2004-11-24 9:44]
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I once read an article, "Critical Care, The Crucifixtion of the Dying"! I guess your story proves the point! I certainly hope you are aware of our Spirits with yours. Peace, Brent

Great story Kat, I share the some feeling about hospitals.

It is nice from you to let us share all the moments you lived in the hospital and I am very surprised you could take shots as I read in the forum you were not very well.
I admire your courage to think of photography at any even hard time.
I am not a fan of your framing of the elevator, on a purely photographic point of view. I allow me this critique as we are on a photo site if I remember well.
I am very interested in shooting elevators myself, it happens I have a collection on my HD. It is like a space out of time for me and so special things can happen in elevators.
Sorry you had a bad experience.
I was wondering if you'll post some more shots about this hospital adventure and was thinking that you could create a theme after that.
Have a nice day
Sylvie

Wow. If you ever get mugged, you will have photogrqaphic evidence! Should you have surgery, be sure to bring your camera along so you can record it for TL! I thought I was well prepared because I carry my phone everywhere! Now we know how you find so many fantastic subjects. You don't carry your camera, you WEAR it! Keep up the great work and finding humor and beauty in even the most bleak places!

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  • pridel Gold Star Critiquer [C: 232 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2004-11-24 12:25]
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I believe to have much chance not to be able to read English without the assistance of a translator.
thus, I can criticize the photograph which I see without being to influence by the novel notes.
Of course I am informed, like everyone on TL about your health.
And for the 1st time, I will write that I do not like a photograph.
Usually I do not write anything except when I can give a council to improve the photograph or then I try a ws.
Your photograph does not present any relief, not colors, (I know, it is an elevator) and it misses clearness.
I hope that you read well that I criticized the photograph, as the TL TOS invites us to do it.
Pascal

Your note and photo show how important your hobby is to you... I guess it is a way for you of keeping control (and record) in this stage of your life... You have all the right to do so! Thanks for sharing!

This note shocked me. I had not known that. Now,there is only one thing I know about you: "The Passion of you is photography"...

Can

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  • mike Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 59 W: 16 N: 68] (280)
  • [2004-12-05 3:06]
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Your description of your elevator experience is spot on Kathleen, when dad was alive he was a troubleshooter for an elevator/lift company, I worked with him, and when we were testing new installations, one of the test was to make the lift go into freefall (with me inside it, lovely....!), this was to test the safety gear, the mechanism that stops the lift if anything goes wrong (like it did for you), yes, the lift does indeed bounce up and down for a few seconds, this is the steel ropes acting like springs, a very unsettling feeling if it's the first time you've experienced it!

After about the thousandth though it gets very ho-hum!

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  • Bozzie (16)
  • [2004-12-14 5:45]
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I guess this goes to show how important a story can be. As I see it, one of the reasons it is wonderful to look at photographs is that each of them is accompanied with a memory. Sometimes it can just be a memory of how you saw the subject and decided to frame it, but in some cases it is a wonderful story. Without a memory or story, a photograph is just a pretty picture with nice colours or shapes. That's it. It's the story that grants the picture a life.
I really admire the way you seem to handle bad things in a very positive manner. Thanks for sharing this with us.

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  • Miqra Gold Star Critiquer [C: 865 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2004-12-28 9:28]

I realize it must have been scarry for you, but your note still had me roaring with laughter, I hope you are ok now Kath, looks like nothing can get the good ones down mmm? (smile)
I like your photo as it is un-ussual and it gives one a clear picture of how 'trapped' you must have felt...praying for you still.
Miq

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