I guess that's why no one bothers having pictures of their family.
I bet you'd feel more emotion if it was a lovingly crafted portrait.
Or if Timmy was taking the photos.
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Dullest Hobby Ever
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+1 Ti29er
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No pictures of your family?
How many Dads reading this savour every single image taken of their children as they grow?
The digital revolution has changed our imaging landscape, and we seem not to print our pictures quite as we used to.
I see this as a retrograde move personally.Seeing ones family on your pc's screen is one thing, having them as a print is another.
I make every effort to commit to print as oft' as I can, but just like you, I too fail to do them justice.http://us.leica-camera.com/home/
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/
Two offerings to illustrate what I belive is not simply just a passion, a pass time but a profession for some.
I apologise for throwing my toys out of the pram Terry - not like me!Posted 2 years ago # -
And, Timmy, to educate you a little, the use of mechanical devices to attempt to capture emotions and feelings is, quite honestly, misguided.
People have been doing so for decades, if not centuries, and doing it well. Creating a good photo is indeed an artform that takes a lot of skill and a good artistic vision/eye. People who obsess about their hobby/passion/job are often the best at it. While no-one is suggesting settings and numbers are the ONLY part of taking photos, they're certainly a major part - get one of the numbers wrong and you have lost that moment in time and lost the ability to catch it properly for others to see. Any art can be broken down to its bare parts usually can then displayed as pointless and incapable of portraying emotion. Referring to painting as "lobbing a bit of coloured paint on a canvas" would make you wonder how anyone could portray anything with it.
Just because you dont enjoy it [whatever it is] doesn't make it dull, it just means you dont like it. I can't stand football, I think its a pointless waste of life with a bunch of men acting like boys kicking a ball round a field. But I can see how people enjoy and value it, even if I feel it's dull.
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Despite it being rather dull and boring, I find myself strangely drawn to clicking onto this thread, only to find nothing of any interest. You could say that it's becoming a bit of a hobby of mine, it's certainly rather dull.
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But you have to admit its a bit odd to be obsessing about your settings when you're faced with a stunning scene. [quote]You could say dull.
I never do, I'm too excited
And, Timmy, to educate you a little, the use of mechanical devices to attempt to capture emotions and feelings is, quite honestly, misguided.
Photography has its value in documentation, but its not art.
If you DO succeed in capturing them then it probably is art, but I'd agree most of the time it's just craft
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Despite it being rather dull and boring, I find myself strangely drawn to clicking onto this thread, only to find nothing of any interest. You could say that it's becoming a bit of a hobby of mine, it's certainly rather dull.
I totally agree.
I would have thought it was very obvious that you'd have to be a complete idiot not to appreciate that the skill and artistry of a good photo. And recognise when someone's winding you up.
So its not photography that's the problem, it's photographers.
Right then, riding around on bikes with stupid sized wheels. What's that all about?
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In my early teens, collecting Small Cacti, had over 70 in my bedroom
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Hook, line and indeed sinker.
Right then, riding around on bikes with stupid sized wheels. What's that all about?
Amen.
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It's blokes, with equipment, some repetitive skills, a lot of shopping, hanging out mostly without their wives.
Indeed. It's all about that streak of autism that's in every man, which means that he can only really comfortably communicate with other men through the medium of consumer technology and acronyms.
It is also the reason why the world of work is, for so many, so tedious - we have yet to identify the labour that overlaps perfectly with our inner Rainman.
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i happen to find photography quite interesting
and enjoy going to the driving range...fishing isnt bad as long as u catch stuff
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I confess not to "getting" fishing.
My rides take my down by & along a canal tow-path for 15 mins, and the guys (note: not a single female) with their rods in the air, line in the water and ..... what?
In 4 years, I've yet to witness a single spark of excitement nor anything remotely dynamic about fishing in the canal.
Tell me what I might be missing!Posted 2 years ago # -
I love fishing, especially at night for big carp.
If you hook into a hard fighting 20lb carp in the middle of the night then that is exciting.
If you don't catch anything then you have been camping. Which is also cool
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i used to fish for tench and perch just because everyone else went for carp and pike.
used to love going down to the river with my avon rod (1.25lb test curve), old cetre pin reel, a loaf of bread and a bag of weed trying to catch some chub.fishing is what you make it and if you enjoy the countryside you are likely to enjoy fishing.
In the professional section, go to the winning image in Car section (the last category, I think).
I also won a 3rd place elsewhere on the site and 3x honourable mentions one submission was of a series of 5 images taken at Mayhem and Clic24 in 2008.don't think i've ever really had a 'sad' hobby. never bothered to collect stuff.
look at me. look at me!
photos are nice, photography is/can be dull.
one of my mates [thinks he] is a photographer and is really **** boring when talking about the subject.
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To my mind, swimming is seriously dull
I didn't realise I had any seriously dull hobbies but now I realise that I do
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I like photograpy, and it's giving me a break from this introverted mountain biking forum away from people like terry limp-wrist
but seriously, i bet people who slag photography off are probably a)Gay and b)Hypocrites (who jump at the chance to see pretty mountain biking photos)
And what's this about photography not being art? I think those B+W prints of New York City people hang on their walls are kinda cool. And did you never see the little girl caught in a napalm attack in Vietnam? The little girl running down the street naked screaming? Did that not convey emotion? Ever heard the saying about a picture and a thousand words?
And just as photographers obsess over f-stops and focal lengths, mountain bikers obsess over TT lengths, tyre widths, shock strokes etc. and people post on here - "What tyres for riding in Calderdale over semi-aqueous ground and some babies head sized metamorphic rocks in the ratio of 40:65 with a chance of mild precipitation?"
seriously, just because you can't do it doesn't make it shit.
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Bummerman,
seeing as you're obviously a bit slow, I'll spell this out for you:
I WAS TAKING THE PI$$.
I'm well aware of the irony of calling another hobby dull compared to MTB, but thanks for pointing it out.
seriously, just because you can't read doesn't make someone else shit.
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But I thought bomberman was taking the p1ss ?
I thought the smiley and the comment "but seriously" where both clues ?
I also thought "terry limp-wrist" was quite funny.Oh dear............ I don't think I'll ever get to understand this 'p1ss-taking' malarkey
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Its all about perspective, if its what you're into then all well and good even if its train spotting, have tried quite a few sports over the years but have always wound up doin gthe ones that scare me.
Personally I've never got the whole footy euphoria, and it really annoys me when you tell other men in the workplace you don't like footy they instantly think you're gay, wtf?!
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The worst has to the collection of slips from cardmachines that grows in your wallet without you knowing ,till you can't shut the dam thing.
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I think what wins the award for "Dullest Hobby Ever", was a couple of blokes I saw when working at the Worcester Beer Festival - they were buying a half of ale, sampling a drop of it then bottling and labelling it!!
It's beer, what are you gonna do with it!!
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fishing is what you make it and if you enjoy the countryside you are likely to enjoy fishing.
unless you're averse to killing things
and is really **** boring when talking about the subject.
the boringness of discussing an activity is not related to the boringness of doing it
For a fact there's not much to say about photography - you point a camera at things and press the button, and sometimes the resulting shot is brilliant. End of Posted 2 years ago # -
I know other people may find golf to be rather boring, but I really enjoy it!
Playing golf is a game of skill, the long process of trying to master all the little pieces that go together to create a good swing. The knowledge that has to be learnt with regards to how the weather can effect your game, and the frustration of trying to up the quality of your short game, and how to read the greens for speed and how the ball will break.
Golf is not really a sport in the athletic manner, but it is one hell of a mind game!
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Tell me what I might be missing!
Well fishing is about lots of things but a lot of it im(limited)e is about sitting by the riverbank/seaside/lake shore chillin out in the weather and relaxing. A form of meditation.. rather like road biking or distance running, or mountain walking on your own.. or maybe swimming except you get water in your ears/nose/mouth too often to properly focus on the physical..
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There was a guy at Preston train station who used to run alongside the trains recording their arrivals at the station waving frantically at any one in his way (and went mental if you spoke/shouted).
He used to play recordings of his favourites to you and could tell you what each one was by sound alone.Proper elite trainspotter.I was there as I worked with an autistic guy who loved trains to the point of compulsion and even he would get bored with this guy.
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Model railways. Oh dear lord that was a narrow escape ...
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I like bikes, fishing, golf, photography, collecting crap - god I'm dull but content
(yes I know you was taking the pi%%)
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