Weird Photographic Obsessions
 

Sundae girl loves to take pics of food and menus. My FIL took pictures of toilets whenever he went on holiday. I feel as more and more phones are able to take pics, it's likely that more people with "unusua"l interests with be able to document them in this way. So come on, 'fess up, what item must you photograph if you see it? You don't need to share your pics....

Old masonry in a forest.

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Which forest, how old, how often do you encounter old masonry in a forest?

Glover Archbold park in DC, right by my place. I don't know how old it is.

The park follows a street runoff waste water line, so it is peppered with odd little protuberances of old piping and masonry.

I don't photograph stuff, but I am also intrigued by those kinds of things. Like sometimes you might see all that is remaining of an old house/shack: just the brick chimney in the middle of the woods.

The best we can do around here is stone walls in the woods. Occasionally we get an old foundation.

Outhouses, gravestones with death dates prior to 1850 or have interesting quotes, close up of spiders, animals of all types (eagles, deer, fox, coyotes, and any other undomesticated animal within range of my camera lens). My wife says I take too many nature shots, but honestly there is so much diversity in nature, you can't have too many pics! Thank God for digital!

I've had this project of going back through old negatives and digitizing them, and by far the most interesting ones are the pictures of people. It's not even close. Yeah, sure, that's a breathtaking shot of scenery, but that grainy shot of my little brother dragging home a tumbleweed to use as a Christmas tree is so much better.

oh cool, I want to see the tumbleweed pic.

Ditto!

Monster, I've started a toilet pics thread (I was gonna take the picture anyways ...) :).

I like to photograph spiders, snakes, and interesting insects. But I don't share them that much, I just keep a folder of them on my puter.

OK. It's actually after he finished dragging it home and was posing outside of our apartment with his buddies. He's the one in the cast. We lived in Tucson that year, and real Christmas trees were insanely expensive. I don't remember if we used the tumbleweed as a tree.

oh what a little bunch of tykes! thanks

DANG! How adorable. You can just tell that your brother was a tough little guy who never stopped.