post yer photos.

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by XCheeseMan

Holy ___ how fast is your camera?! I can see the bolts on the rims!! yay for rally

regarding what stimpee found: FUCK. WOW.

lloyd has got a niiiice camera with a big lens. that photo looks like the car is standing still when in fact im sure it was hurtling at great speed.

as for the photo i found, its so good you almost think its too good to be true but im sure its real.

[holden]

Originally Posted by stimpee

as for the photo i found, its so good you almost think its too good to be true but im sure its real.

i believe it! i was watching some StormChasers business on television and there was a tornado with a rainbow in front. Lovely. Then it ate someone's house. Not lovely.

Anyway, great photos, y'all!

[swillhite]

Originally Posted by stimpee

Not one of my photos, but a photo (yes photo, not faked) of a new building being contructed about 500 metres from my house. linky

I'm curious, what do you think of this building?

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by swillhite

I'm curious, what do you think of this building?

Well since then I have taken a couple of pics of it. You can see them both here.

At first I hated it but now I think its great. At first I thought "how can they get away with building this in the Museum Quarter in the old city?" (most of the bulidings around it date from 1580-1850). But its not on the Oudegracht (main canal), its behind and its out of the main public eye. Also gaining controversy at the time were the container accomodation for students at the university here -> pix

[swillhite]

Thanks for the additional pics. I've always appreciated Netherlands' and Germany's willingness to experiment. The US, particularly Colorado, the state I live in, are relatively conservative. Cities and developers just aren't willing to take chances, so I envy your country for that reason. That said, I believe that contemporary architecture generally falls into 2 categories- architecture that is designed for the user and the public, and architecture that is based mainly on the ego of the architect, more art than architecture. Without having experienced the building first hand it appears to be the latter. The exterior doesn't seem too friendly and based on the window pattern I question what it feels like inside. I can't even tell what it is- residential? office? ? All that aside, it is interesting in a geometric, mathmatic sort of way. But is that justification to make people live or work in it? I much prefer Santiago Calatrava's work in that respect.
The student housing looks pretty interesting, small, but at least there's some good glass.
Thanks again for the photos, interesting...

[polar_action]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarpolar/190633347

Photo taken by the seaside in Whitby. The boys were playing football and I'd taken a few shots of them in action. Some were good but just not quite right, so we cheated in this one - the ball isn't actually moving and the lads just pretended to shoot and dive on the count of three....

not bad for me though

[BeautifulBurnout]

Nice shot! And nice shot!

[the real stuff]

very nice, polar_action

There's a lot of amazing stuff in this thread, making it difficult for me to feel comfortable sharing my own. I don't have a car, so most of these are of everyday life around my apartment complex or college campus.

This is part of a recent impulse to use my camera at least once everyday.

[polar_action]

cheers for comment real stuff....but WOW.. your shots are VIVID.

I really like the green dumpsters and the half an hour after the storm sky.

I'm just getting started and know nufink about photography but the colours in you're stuff is amazing. What did you use?

[lloyd]

Oh! faking a shot! almost makes it art..
Indeed a nice shot, nice composition