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.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/5...c668b2d22c.jpg

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.

He's barefoot. And those are the kind of sharp Southwestern rocks that mutilate your feet no matter how little you weigh. Plus he's got a cast that extends above the elbow? Man, I bet your mom is so glad he's grown up now.

That picture is just tooooo cute! :D

I love that kinda stuff.

We went barefoot whenever we could. The soles of our feet were like that leather BigV likes. And dirty. Although I remember a few times cutting my feet on glass and thorns and stuff. It's funny, because now I make my kids wear their shoes, and I never go barefoot.

Being older and being grown up are sometimes mutually exclusive.

I'm getting older, but, I refuse to 'grow up'.

Yes! I love photos like that too. Ones that are snippets of a story. People are infinitely interesting... i guess that's why i majored in psych.

I also like nature pics, and anything with a strong geometric form.

I love how pictures turn out when the subject doesn't know you're taking any. People always appear much more natural and real.

Take this kid for example:
http://pruett.smugmug.com/Travel/Cal...14_zZBeu-L.jpg

Him not knowing I was taking the picture set up the shot so much better than if he was staged. He looks completely melted into being at the beach, enjoying the surf. His natural condition, immersed in the setting. As opposed to a "smile for the camera" moment when all that is lost and he's just another kid at the beach.

Great pic! You should enter that in a contest.

Hey Bullitt? Be careful taking pictures of other people's kids at the beach. I'm just sayin'. It shouldn't have to be that way, but it is.

He's in the moment. great capture

Thanks for the compliments. It's my cousin's kid just to clarify.

Agreed. And the pic is fine, won't get you into any trouble legally, but if I saw you taking pics of my kids, We'd be having a conversation. Although if this was my kid, like as not it'd be on the friendlier side of protective parent.

Here's a pic of me and him, albeit he's a few years younger. Actually another example of a photo of someone without them knowing (we're both asleep)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...8&id=160800197

And also to clarify again, I don't go around taking pictures of random people when they aren't looking. I just like how much more natural people look when they don't know, that's all.