Thanks for the nice comments guys. Like soosh said, I try to find a subject that is interesting and/or unusual. I’ll bet that he does this too – but I actively look for stuff that to the casual observer would be considered insignificant or ugly. If looked at in a different light or from a different angle (both figurative and literal) this stuff is frequently really cool. I’ve said it before, but I really like my perspective of the world when I look through a camera. It forces me to stop and look and actually see the beauty in the world rather than just filter it out as I go about my busy day.
What makes something wierd click in my head and then turn out as a nice photo? Hell, I don’t know. I do know that frequently the pics I get out of my camera don’t match the cool one in my head. Lots of the crap I photograph just turns out as a crappy pic. 🙂 One of the reasons I love digital is that I’ll take bunches of pics of any given subject from all sorts of angles. Sometimes the odd angle turns out well. Sometimes it looks to me like I’m trying too hard to get a funny angle.
I’ve had a theme idea bouncing around in my head for a while now. I tried to capture it with the “Simple Beautiful” theme ( http://farktography.net/index.php?module=Photoshare&func=showimages&fid=141 ). That didn’t quite get it though. This discussion caused it to crystalize.
Theme – “Ugly….but has a great personality”
Description – Show us interesting photos of something that many would consider ugly.
Difficulty – While the incidental human is OK, people cannot be the subject of the photo.
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