Weird Photographic Obsessions

monster · 01-25-2011, 09:53 PM

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....

Happy Monkey · 01-25-2011, 10:18 PM

Old masonry in a forest.

monster · 01-25-2011, 10:21 PM

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

Happy Monkey · 01-26-2011, 09:04 AM

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.

Shawnee123 · 01-26-2011, 09:26 AM

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.

footfootfoot · 01-26-2011, 09:36 AM

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

Yznhymr · 01-26-2011, 12:42 PM

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!

glatt · 01-26-2011, 12:47 PM

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.

monster · 01-26-2011, 08:49 PM

oh cool, I want to see the tumbleweed pic.

Tulip · 01-26-2011, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

oh cool, I want to see the tumbleweed pic.

Ditto!

limey · 01-27-2011, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

... FIL took pictures of toilets whenever he went on holiday ...

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

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TheMercenary · 01-27-2011, 08:55 AM

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.

glatt · 01-27-2011, 09:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

oh cool, I want to see the tumbleweed pic.

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.

monster · 01-27-2011, 09:16 AM

oh what a little bunch of tykes! thanks

Pico and ME · 01-27-2011, 10:41 AM

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

01-25-2011, 09:53 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	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.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-25-2011, 10:18 PM	#2
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Old masonry in a forest. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

01-25-2011, 10:21 PM	#3
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Which forest, how old, how often do you encounter old masonry in a forest? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-26-2011, 09:04 AM	#4
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	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. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

01-26-2011, 09:26 AM	#5
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	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. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

01-26-2011, 09:36 AM	#6
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	The best we can do around here is stone walls in the woods. Occasionally we get an old foundation. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

01-26-2011, 12:42 PM	#7
Yznhymr the crowd goes wild! Join Date: May 2007 Location: USA Posts: 663	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! __________________ "The pride system tends to intensify the self-hate against which it is supposed to be a defense, since any failure to live up to one's tyrannical shoulds or of the world to honor one's claims leads to feelings of worthlessness." Bernard J. Paris, Ph.D.

01-26-2011, 12:47 PM	#8
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	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.

01-26-2011, 08:49 PM	#9
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	oh cool, I want to see the tumbleweed pic. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-27-2011, 08:55 AM	#12
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	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. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-27-2011, 09:16 AM	#14
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	oh what a little bunch of tykes! thanks __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-27-2011, 10:41 AM	#15
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	DANG! How adorable. You can just tell that your brother was a tough little guy who never stopped.

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