Last chance…please vote for my idea in Name Your Dream Assignment so I can take some amazing photos. To have a chance at winning, I need at least 500 votes. Please pass this along to other people. I don’t get enough traffic here. The voting ends Friday! Only those ideas in the top 20 will be looked at by the judges.

Here’s my plan:

A new wildlife reserve is being created in Ethiopia. I want to photograph the current conditions of wildlife in Ethiopia and the people involved in the rescue and transfer of these animals to new homes.

Born Free, a nonprofit wildlife rescue organization, is creating a new wildlife preserve in Ethiopia to save the wildlife from poor conditions. In Ethiopia, cheetah cubs are bred and traded. They are tied up and barely fed. The population of big cats is declining in Africa to the point were some are endangered species.

Due to the conditions in Ethiopia, wildlife preservation and animal welfare are of little importance. The animals in most need are lions, cheetahs and other wild cats.

I am interested in creating a photo story of conditions the animals are found in as well as their transfer to the reserve. I want to photograph the people involved from Born Free and the Ethiopians who are involved in saving these animals.

So far this week has been full of movie watching. I have seen two new movies, plus ones recently relased on DVD. The timing is perfect snce I will be participating in ScriptFrenzy again this year. It starts on April 1. I’m still working out an idea. I had a beginning come to me out of nowhere last week, but I don’t know if I will go with that.

This week’s movies:

Watchmen (surprisingly good, not one I would have picked)

I Love You, Man (hilarious, I picked this one.)

Milk (wonderful, moving; Penn deserved the Oscar)

Role Models (funny, but not as funny as I Love You, Man–by the way, is Paul Rudd in every movie?)

Religulous (funny, poignant, thought-provoking)

Body of Lies (good, worth seeing)

And it’s only Tuesday…gotta go…more movies to see…