Photography thread

[bee]

Some pictures from Labor Day lunch-dinner-barbecue-thing at my sister's last weekend. They're all pretty much the same colour scheme because they were all taken in the exact same spot and I didn't move. I just played with my macro lens (can focus as close as 1cm!) while I sat at the new picnic table my brother-in-law built.

A screw (the droplets around are sap from the picnic table lumber)


My food--not sure why I like this picture this much, except maybe the details on the bun.


A pinecone!


Fun with light and my sunglasses...

[Nathan]

Yesterday I went out to take my sister's senior picture for her. Of course, she wanted it taken with her horse. So, here are some of the results. I think it went quite well.

Choice Pictures (Not sure which will get used):



Some baby goats that were around and crazily cute (especially when they were butting heads, but my sister had taken my camera then):



Some kittens who are basically having the life drained out of them by fleas :

[AlexSP]

hellooooo momma!!!

momma cat i mean, of course.

[Somewhat]

A week ago, we went to Floriade, Canberra's annual flower festival!

A magpie:


A bridge and some pretty willow fronds.


These weren't flowers in the festival proper but I think they're beautiful.


Tulip.


A sea of red.


These are the cutest.


Pretty purple things.


The Moulin Rouge field. The theme this year was Australian movies.


By the way, Bee, your macro shots are amazing. Such beautiful detail!

[Peter]

Peter looks out on a dismal Autumn day and accuses Raphael of cranking the saturation

Hey-ho. Tomorrow will be sunnier, thay say, and perhaps I'll have some leaves to photograph.

[Aletheia Dolorosa]

Beautiful, beautiful Floriade! Oh how I miss Canberra. Although I do have all this to look at:


Main entrance to my college.


My college.


My college again.


Tourist punts.


People punting.


View of the chapel roof (taken from the chapel roof).


Gargoyles.


More views from the chapel roof.


The university library, far away in the distance.

I'm not the world's greatest photographer (my hands shake too much) but I hope you get some idea of what this place looks like...

[Somewhat]

Miss Ronni, dear, were you aware that you're living in a Disney castle? Please inform me as soon as you realise.

[Peter]

Autumn is here:



No post-processing!

[Peter]

In London with FW today:

The weather kept fine, but was cold and blustery:



At the Cenotaph, in Whitehall. You can see the wreaths laid earlier this morning by Messrs Patch, Stone and Allingham:



What it's all about:



Just up the road from the Cenotaph:



The view from Hungerford Bridge on the way back to Waterloo station:

[Jaya]

The Lake District.

[brynjarbjorn]

Quite like the look of the fells in the distance, is logging conducted in the area?.

[thelxiepia]

The sky was pretty. (Bad quality camera on my phone, though. )




Also, I am hilarious.

[Starshade]

Btw, that perfume is good

[brynjarbjorn]

Assortment of photographs from the Berlin concert trip I went on with the symphony orchestra. We played with the Orchester Berliner Musikfreunde symphony in the Berliner Philharmonie and did lots of other fun stuff.


Martin Luther Kirche in Berlin, a pub we went to afterwards and couple of photos from Potsdamer Platz.


The entrance to the philharmonic concert hall. Looking out from the cafeteria.


The Holocaust Memorial, taken over and amongst the massive concrete blocks. Brandenburger Tor.


Sailing past the the Berlin Cathedral and Bode Museum on the river Spree.


Walking along Charlottenburg Palace. Interesting building across the street. Statue of Prince Albert of Prussia.


The fountain in the Sony Center at nighttime.

[Ian]

St. Andrews cathedral.



The moon on St. Andrews beach.



Looking back to St. Andrews.



Looking across dunes at Old Course Hotel.

[Enitharmon]

I'm considering putting in a bid for Most Beautiful Location in the 2009 Sraffie Awards.

[Yrael]

Oh when are the 09 sraffie awards?

[Nathan]

Was tasked with photographing my sister's latest performance, a Christmas show on horseback, in the dark. Some of the results I found quite beautiful.









When they finally stand still and the lights start to turn up, you can see what was going on (the horses and riders were covered in Christmas lights):

[Nathan]

Exploring Kassel in the snow.

Apparantly everyone in the city goes sledding when there is a little snow (at the Schloss Wilhelmshöhe Museum):


The Schloss Wilhelmshöhe Museum:





Frozen waterfalls are nifty:


Tram stop was pretty:


Old Aquaduct would still be running I think if the water wasn't frozen



(that's me in there)

Not quite sure what the purpose of this thing was:


Hercules (stairs of doom, basically). The view of the city from the top is amazing though. Sadly it got too dark for my camera to take any decent pictures.

[Somewhat]

I miss snow. It looks beautiful, Nathan, what a lovely trip.