Or things that you tend to take photos of? I have loads and loads of pictures of flowers (preferably close-ups), churches (side-effect of researching my family tree) and landscapes. Also pictures of gravestones, but that's more for genealogy research than an actual desire to photograph them.
"If we go on like this, you're going to turn into an Alsatian again."
Uhm - favorite subjects - not really: interesting architecture, flowers, animals, clouds, practically the whole range of subjects any average photographer likes. Possibly I could call the region where I live my favorite subject: I take a lot of photographs in my closest surrounding neighbourhood, the same motifs in bright sunlight or fog, early morning or night, crowded or deserted, in pouring rain or snow, this kind of things. I never even go to the supermarket without my camera, just in case a flashy pink American limousine from the 50s turns up in my small European city (which it did a few days ago, hence the example , and I was lucky and captured it!), or someone drops a shoppig bag with 20 oranges rolling around.
I'd say it's kind of every-day life documentary I like to do, nothing very sophisticated, only at times playing around with perspective. The only favorite subject that has a bit of an obsession may be building sites. They really fascinate me ... all the colorful machinery they use, people doing things I don't have the first idea about, it's like a stage set with a play going on in a language you don't understand and have to figure our for yourself. Most of the times workmen ignore me, sometimes they chase me away, but at other times they like being photographed and even pose for me, you never can tell in advance. It's fun.
Regards, Rosabel
Trees.
Cypress and Oak mainly.
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1731606_1566407,00.html
Done a good bit of work in graveyards, trees and headstones using wideangle.
Impressive! All of them!
Are you a photo journalist? One of the enviable people who get paid for traveling? Did you also do the photographic essays following the tree pictures? I just took a first look at them, too, but they are too many for me to watch all in a row, I'll go back there later.
Regards, Rosabel
Ahh to hell with you, billyglenn!
I can see that your and my understanding of the thread title, particularly in the context of the OP, do disagree a bit ...
Okay, thanks for the link anyhow, the pics are well worth seeing, and I'll be on the guard now with future contributions by you: trap-alert!
Regards, Rosabel
You have my sympathies if you were caught up anywhere close to the hurricanes.
Sorry, but someone had to say it.
I hope you will find a way to forgive me rosabel.Don't worry, billy, I'm not a monster!
Been a long week.
Got hit by a hurricane. I'm sorry to hear that. Now will you sneer at me when I tell you that I love to look at hurricane pics? Emphasis on pics!, I never would want to be in one, and the people who have to suffer through it have all my sympathy.
A year ago I found the website (or I think it was a blog) of one crazy American photographer who specialized in hurricanes, with the most impressive pics of clouds and waves and trees I'd ever seen, but I can't find the link again; I hope he didn't fall victim to his passion and had to discontinue the blog! Does anybody know who I'm talking about?
This is the kind of pics I'm no end impressed with:
http://www.bareboatsbvi.com/images/Hurricane_Frances_2004.jpg
But these I really hate:
http://www.hurricanekatrina.com/hurricane-katrina-2.jpg
Hurricane plus trees for you:
http://www.medtogo.com/assets/images/hurricane.jpg
Whereabouts do you live, billy? Hope there was no damage done to your place. Do you have some of your tree pics to share?
Regards, Rosabel
Oh, you just took me right back to a uni project we had to do in the second year! I'm pretty shy around people - especially people I don't know - and this project required us to find twelve random people in the street and ask them to let us take their picture. It took me ages - just as well there was two months between the brief being set and the assessment but every time I took my pictures in to a tutorial, my tutor would suggest retaking them for some reason or another.
(So in the end I think I had about eight decent pictures so I enlisted my aunty, my uncle, my mum and my sister to make up the numbers. Which I know is really cheating but by then I just wanted to get it over with.)
In some ways, I think studying something like that can become more of a chore than a pleasure. Whereas if it had been something I had decided to do myself, it might have taken me a year and I might have only started it when I noticed I had got three similar shots and thought, "I could make something out of that" (as with my flower studies or my churches), with it being a set project with a fixed timescale it does sort of put the pressure on.
"If we go on like this, you're going to turn into an Alsatian again."