I'd like to start this topic for the members of Unexplained Mysteries who have a love of taking pictures and capturing stories in images. I've recently found myself splurging on a relatively decent camera to fuel my desire to take pictures of the beauty that surrounds me in everyday life, and would like to share it with you and experience some of your own.

Photography I find is a peaceful hobby that allows people to share their surroundings and experiences while expressing oneself through the art of imagery. Now i certainly don't claim to be an expert in any way at all, i simply like to take pictures of things. Sometimes those pictures can only fully be enjoyed by the one who took it, and sometimes that can be a source of inspiration for others, or simple enjoyment to view the moments that others have captured.

So please, share some of your Photography, discuss your work and enjoy the work of others. I shall be uploading some of my own pictures very shortly.

I've been interested in photography for as long as I can remember, but didn't start until September of last year in hopes of getting the attention of a certain female photographer. I didn't succeed, but at least I found a new hobby.

Here are ten of my favorite pieces of work:

Gorgeous! And they call you colorless, that couldn't be further from the truth. You have a very impressive eye for art there, and it's really inspiring. Thank you, very much for sharing your work. I really enjoy the city-scapes and attention to the placement of the objects in your pictures.

I think smoke is sometimes beautiful in photos, especially if colored by sunlight. Especially if its the pinkish one of sunset.

Quite right. I imagine it would be rather difficult to capture a good shot of it but it can look quite magical. I'll give it a shot.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/jobot37/DSC00060.jpg

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two of mine I'm rather proud of

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Wow. I really like the first one.

wicked pictures,i gotta buy a digi camera

Photography isn't a hobby of mine, but I've been known to take a few pictures.

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I love your attention to details, very nice! Thank you for sharing. The first with the blossum is an absolute delight.



I really, really love the first one. It had a mood to it, a silent solemn mood that really draws me in and makes me want to know more. Good work!

Okay. Bear in mind this is something i've just started, i'm sure with time my images will be a lot better.

I have a fascination with sunsets, a rather awful one. Promise the next batch wont be full of them.

May 1st 2006.

Fab photo's everyone! This thread has now inspired me to take more photo's too!
Burns for a beginner you take good photo's, particulalry like 4, 5 and 6.

yup I gotta download more pics into my photobucket tonight, LOL!

Yay looking forward to seeing them.
And thank you! Actually i forgot one, it's just another sunset one though. I think next time i'll go out when the day is a little younger.

You have a great eye yourself, Burnside. And not to mention the potential to become an amazing photographer. Keep it up.

I have a thing for nature and sunset photographs....Here are a couple of mine from my last vacation (Ft. Myers Beach, FL).











I got inspired by a photographer in Ludington Michigan. I have all his published works. We go to Ludington every year for a week (its on Lake Michigan).

Todd Reed

He grew up in Ludington...its an absolutely beautiful place.

Im going to post something as soon as the add this attachment button thing works.

Thank you kindly. It's something i really enjoy, so i hope to have alot more pictures on the way.
I'm looking foward to going camping in a couple weeks to capture some good shots.




Those are some simply magnificent shots, i really like the sunset image and the trees. Thanks for sharing.

i dig textures

Nice photographs. To everyone.
Very good. I salute you in your skill, and good luck to BurnSide.

(This kind of made me want to post a few, but I am in no means an expert in this area. I just like to shoot random pictures, mainly of my cats...and things. 8D)

Here's two of my very favorites, even if the picture of my cat isn't exactly...well, 'art', I still find it amusing.

Here's one I took when I was at Sandringham in England. It's the only one I have here at work. It's hard to take a bad shot of this place:

here's a few of mine from last weekend

we went to the city and took a picture from atop the olympic tower


we visited the St-Joseph Oratory


and walked around the city, it was a beautiful day
I like this picture alot, it's my hubby


and one more of spring blossoms:

Gorgeous. That belongs on a postcard.

Simply incredible! You have a nack for patterns, it's really enjoyable to see.



Thank you! I'm gearing up for camping, oh man i can't wait to see what i capture!!
hehe your cat is very cute, and the picture is great it's very good quality. I've tried taking a few of mine but it's difficult to get a good shot, especially considering the cat seems to always be on a pot of coffee.

I absolutely adore though the picture of the Butterfly. Well captured.



What a delightful place! Oh i miss the scenic history of England.



Wow, what's the city? The one from the top of the tower is breathtaking!

Nice shot Coldethyl! I agree with Angrycrustacean, it belongs on a postcard.

Also, ShadowDancer, great shots. My mom would be particularly fond of the blossoms.


Camping is a great time to get some photographing in, I hope you get something worthwhile. The outdoors is a wonderful place.

Oh, you really like that picture of my kitty? Thanks! (Though, the shallow shadow is kind of distracting. I hate the automatic flash.)
Anyway. I find it's easiest to take pictures of Berry and Half once I've got a few 'experimental' pictures of them running around. They start to calm a little, and pose. Also, "tease" them a little, like: "I'm going to get your picture! Come 'ere -Insert Cat Name Here-, you silly thing. *FLASH*"

One more thing! Try and take pictures of your cat(s) when they're lounging, those make for good (funny!) pictures too.

Thanks, for the comment on the butterfly picture.

I'm taking a photog course, but all the pictures I think are best are in the unit folders... >_< so before I put them in this terms folder I'll try and scan them and upload them.
atm I'm using an Olympus OM-1, although its around 25 years old and the light metre is just a black stick on the left (and impossible to see at most times...) its still pretty good at picking the fine details up. it was my fathers, but he's thinking of getting me a new camera (no complaints here )

I love all the pictures on here atm, I just hope I can match them when ever I can upload mine

Wow! Thanks guys! Like I said a place that looks like that makes for a great picture. All the pics on here are great! This topic was a great idea!

I think I made Burnside homesick!

Very nice photographs everyone!


Thanks Burn!

Nothing wrong with an old camera, I use a Canon A-1 from the mid seventies, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

oh I know there isn't, just the light metre is very hard to see in dark area's. though its a very good camera, as you said also, I wouldn't trade mine either (but it belongs to my father, but if it didn't I still wouldnt trade it.)

its kinda sweet, how you only after a while you can start to 'see' pictures everywhere, in your head ect.

I love photography. I'm a bit old fashioned, whilst I love my digital camera I still think film is the best medium. Developing black and white prints in a dark room is just great fun. The way the image begins to appear on a blank sheet of paper still strikes me as being close to magic (and I'm a chemist).

I've put a few of my pictures in the member photography album of the multimedia gallery. Some of them are from a trip to Kenya I made in 2004.

So far there are 9 but I will add some more later. Any honest comments and constructive criticism would be more than welcome.

Good eye for a photo BurnSide. Out of curiosity though, what make/model is the camera? Not a criticism, but I can't help thinking your focus is soft - not sure if this is a camera setting?

some nice photos in here! good to see some nice creativity.

i have some shots, i havent been doing much recently as theres not much around here but most recent ones i guess ive been doing some close up shots of insects in the garden, pretty hard because you have such a tiny depth of focus.

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and some random ones, i wish i had ascanner to put in some of the long exposure shots at night on film i have.

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Nice photos jonb. I love the insect close-ups.

Is the cat always that angry?

I took this last week-end. I like the picture but the color of the water is kind of gross. lol

I must sort out a decent online gallery one day, but for now a few piccies can be found on one of my websites

Hey jonb, nice insect pics! What are the settings on you camera for those?

That moon photo got me thinking...I should post my Astrphotography CCD images...Currently I am having some trouble with the camera...so as soon as it get warmer here, I'll post them...and take some new pics.

i wow shadow wolf, those pics are great! I mean to go somwhere to photograph animals once i get a better telephoto lens

frogfish to tell the truth i just take a normal lens and turn it around to the camera the wrong way, it gives the macro effect a lot cheaper but you have to hold the lens in place it can be quite awquard.

I love astrophotography, i havent done much of it though as i live near a biggish town which gives some nasty light pullution :s also my shutter release broke in cold weather and lens' getting dew on them ruining the photo is annoying!

Do you use a telescope?

Thanks Jonb...Nice pictures Shadow Wolf

Yes jonb, I use a telescope. I have a 10" Meade LXD 75 Newtonian Refractor and the camera is a Meade DeepSky CCD Imager.

Just through my telescope, I get beautiful views of all the Messier Objects, and much, much more...In the Summer, I spend hours every week outside under the stars.

What are the sky conditions like for you? I live on the outskirts of London and I'm lucky if I can see the Milky Way 4 times a year. A city of 7 millions has an awful lot of sodium lamps.

thats cool, i agree lamps really ruin the sky.. i saw a cheap telescope with camera fitting on ebay a while ago was considering getting it, it could track the movement of the earth aswell which is great.
i also agree that film is the best medium as its free of anything going wrong electronically, and for long exposures there is no image noise. but it got too expensive for me and i never bothered getting film exposed so i went digital. still have an old canon film cam but its a bit dodgy

Digital is the way to go for astrophotography; compared to analogue film - even hi ISO such as 1600 - a digicam's CCD/CMOS sensor is an absolute light-bucket. This allows shorter exposure times (typically 10-15 seconds instead of several minutes); so for wide-sky shots you don't need a driven mount, and you don't get so much excess of sodium glow from streetlights. If we can get a decent moonless clear night (I know its working out wrong in the lunar cycle!) it'd be well worth trying to capture Comet P73/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 with a tripod mounted camera and standard lens.

jonb those are gorgeous!
ShadowDancer I like that pic you took even with the color of the water.

Here's a few more from England and two from Tennessee:











Oh, also there was a flood here in Arkansas and these pictures of this truck caught in water I took made it on the local news! Always have your camera!!
Click here to see the flood pics on my webpage

Yes, i do feel alot of my work is ruined because i'm not using the camera correctly.
I'm not sure exactly what it is because i don't have it on me, but i *know* that something is going wrong on it. My night pictures never come out at all, and they're nearly always blurry.
Forgive me but i do remain woefully ignorant since i'm pretty much an amateur with a camera who likes taking pictures. I'm sure i'll be able to bring up a manual online or something. It's second-hand, see. Just a small digital, not really completely fit to be taking landscape images.

I'll find out what it is and get back to the thread.




Amazing pictures guys, thank you all for sharing. This is fast becoming my favourite topic, there's so much beauty in it.

Yeah I wish I knew more about photography. I just have a little Fuji digital camera and I take pictures of what I like. I do always have it with me though. It was a birthday pressie and I have gotten more use out of it than any other pressie ever!

Are you using a tripod BurnSide? Night pictures need fairly long exposures and a tripod is esential. I use a cheap mini tripod for my digital camera and have got some resonable results.

The picture below, for example is a 1 second exposure. It would not be possible to hand hold a camera steady for that long and it would have been blurred with out the tripod.

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No, i'm not. I didn't even think about a Tripod, but along those lines i didn't even think about longer exposure.
Complete beginner here guys. I don't think that's even possible with my camera, i'll have to find out.

very nice pic, I like it!


and burns, if you can't use a tripod (they can also be pretty pricey for the decent ones. cheap ones can be unsturdy sometimes.) you should lean the camera on a wall, cheap and its free

Thank you Leliel.

If you are going to use a wall one tip I was give is have something with you like a mini bean bag or even a soft toy. The problem with a wall is that you tend not to be able to change the elevation of the camera. Using a mini bean bag you can place the camera on that and use it to point the camera up or down. A lightly stuffed toy will work but will look very silly.

That's really good thinking. Thanks, i will definately take that advice.