The Photography Thread

[Sergeant Rock]

Very nice. I've seen that place (in photographs) before. 

Yep, one of the most photographed spots on earth. I've been there many times (it's a must-see for family and friends visiting from the States), enough times to be sick of it now 

Sarge

[kishnevi]

Very nice. I've seen that place (in photographs) before. 

The landscape is more interesting than the castle, going by the photos in that article.

Neuschwanstein




Sarge

Nice angle for the castle.  But the village facade...any other photos of Fussen?

[North Star]

The landscape is more interesting than the castle, going by the photos in that article.

Well I'd naturally agree (see my photos on flickr, and count the ones with landscape/nature, and the ones with architecture...), if I had to choose one over the other. But architecture is a part of landscape, where it exists.

[Sergeant Rock]

Nice angle for the castle.  But the village facade...any other photos of Fussen?

Füssen is a few miles northwest of this spot. The village beneath the castle is Hohenschwangau. I don't have many shots of the village. When one visits a place so often, photos seem superfluous. Here are the few I have from my last trip there:








Sarge

[North Star]

Füssen is a few miles northwest of this spot. The village beneath the castle is Hohenschwangau. I don't have many shots of the village. When one visits a place so often, photos seem superfluous. Here are the few I have from my last trip there:

Sarge

And yet, often the best photographs are of subjects that we have come to know well. But that kind of photography is of course motivated by other things than the photos a tourist takes when visiting a place for the first time.

Nice photos, I like how the castle is small and in the distance. Reminds me of Atget's work, how he often either gave less emphasis to the thing that was - at least seemingly - the object he photographed, either giving something else equal or more weight in the composition.

[North Star]

Now in colour - thanks to Photoshop's Spot Healing Brush.

   

[Sergeant Rock]

And yet, often the best photographs are of subjects that we have come to know well

Yeah, like the women in my life 

But that kind of photography is of course motivated by other things than the photos a tourist takes when visiting a place for the first time.

My problem is that when I visit these places I'm usually the tour guide. Photography (other than snapshots) takes a backseat. I need to get out on my own more often 

Sarge

[North Star]

My problem is that when I visit these places I'm usually the tour guide. Photography (other than quick snapshots) takes a backseat. I need to get out on my own more often 

Sarge

It would be hard to concentrate on photography while being the tour guide as well. And yes, that's the obvious solution.

[Sergeant Rock]

Now in colour - thanks to Photoshop's Spot Healing Brush.

The trees had acne? 

     

Both versions work really well. Beautiful.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Throwback Thursday, to 1969, an era of long hair, short skirts and monster convertibles    The subjects: my girlfriend and her Oldsmobile Delmont 88. This is actually the first photo I ever took. I didn't have my own camera; I borrowed a friend's Canon FT (a few months later I bought a Yashica rangefinder, and a few years after that a Canon FTb).




Sarge

[North Star]

The trees had acne? 

Both versions work really well. Beautiful.

Sarge

Just a lot of pollen etc in the water. Thanks

[North Star]

Throwback Thursday, to 1969, an era of long hair, short skirts and monster convertibles    The subjects: my girlfriend and her Oldsmobile Delmont 88. This is actually the first photo I ever took. I didn't have my own camera; I borrowed a friend's Canon FT (a few months later I bought a Yashica rangefinder, and a few years after that a Canon FTb).




Sarge

Very cool. 45 years of photographing the same stuff. 
I took my first photos probably in 2004, this is one of them, I think..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zifoaexzl1nf09a/PICT0037s.jpg?dl=0

[Sergeant Rock]

I took my first photos probably in 2004, this is one of them, I think..

Your image isn't showing.

Edit: The new link works. Impressive location, impressive shot.

Sarge

[North Star]

I took my first photos probably in 2004, this is one of them, I think..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zifoaexzl1nf09a/PICT0037s.jpg?dl=0

Your image isn't showing.

Sarge

How silly of me. Now it should be visible if you open it through the link.

[kishnevi]

Very cool. 45 years of photographing the same stuff. 
I took my first photos probably in 2004, this is one of them, I think..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zifoaexzl1nf09a/PICT0037s.jpg?dl=0

Awesome.  In the original nonslangy meaning of the word.

[North Star]

Awesome.  In the original nonslangy meaning of the word.

Thanks. I do think (and hope..) I have come a long way since then, though, although I do like that composition



I did some more cleaning to this one

[North Star]

A still-life for change

[North Star]

Another one from June.

[kishnevi]

Earlier today, under the 17th Street Causeway in Fort Lauderdale.  To my left, the Intracoastal Waterway.  To my right, Port Everglades with the channel to the ocean to my right.  The clump of cruise ships in the background of one photo is part of the reason Port Everglades is set to be the second busiest cruise ship port in the world this year.  (Miami seems to be the perennial number one.)
First for North Star, trees blowing in the wind.  Stiff breeze today.

Not sure why the image editor supplied a black border when I resized this to meet the forum limits.

[kishnevi]

Next for Mookafalas, a seagull