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This thread might be a complete flop, but let's try! I thought it'd be nice to have somewhere we can share photos we've taken, and if there's an interesting story behind them even better. I got my first reasonable camera recently so I've been pretty much snapping anything I can. :D

Few shots on and around a church wall I happened to be sitting on. I decided to poke the ant hole after and about a million ants came gushing out.

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My grandparents' ragdoll:

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ragdoll is going to murder you. It's obvious from picture #2, and in picture #3 he's imagining how.

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Is that imagined murder beyond the human genocide all cats are always planning?

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That cat is great. I want to touch its face.

Here is a cat:

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Here is a cat on my lap:

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Here is a train platform:

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Here is the interior of the bar car. State pride, yo:

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And since this message board revolves around games, here's a die:

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Splendid cat, although I'd be worried about those claws in the second picture!

My favourite is the train platform. Seems weirdly empty.

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Here are some photos I took today, messing around with cheesy bokeh effects. My brother lent me his DSLR with a 50mm prime. The depth of field at low apertures is so ridiculously fine you have to pay an absurd amount of attention to focussing; it's intersting to mess around with.

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Nice photos Nachimir, although I'm not entirely certain what I'm looking at. ;(

Haha, Brown. Excellent progression.

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I only just noticed the cat's face in the second one! :)

Thrik, I was doing this kind of thing: http://shutterskills.com/make-your-own-bokeh-shape.html

But a bit fancier:

http://ympt.co.uk/bokeh/bokeh-p-series.jpg

You need a fast lens that can do shallow depths of field to get a lot of control over it; the more out of focus you can make the background, the bigger the bokeh get. Your camera might be a bit slow at f3.8, though it does have tiny bokeh in the background of that shot with the pebbles.

(Apologies if that's still jargon to you :getmecoat)

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Hah, that's a whole kind of creativity I'd never even heard of before!

Decided to make use of my cam's video capabilities for the first time, came out as a pretty good mood piece or background noise if you're into that kind of thing:

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and got some public domain ones from The Noun Project.

The Noun Project is cool! I've found most of the symbols I needed for my board game prototype there.

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Short video I shot at the same time as the cat photos I posted:

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I just took a lovely, although short vacation in Estonia (Tallinn & Tartu). Going through the 600 pictures is going to take ages. But here's a picture taken in a prison that was closed in 2002:

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Hah, awesome brkl — looking forward to seeing more. Absolutely love photography of dead/ghost buildings.

Had another fun day out this weekend, so naturally lots of snaps. :XD:

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Some of these pictures are great. I especially love the one with the old lady on the chair; it's so well-framed, and perfectly timed. The one of the old man on the chair has a beautiful paleness to it.

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Love the Katamari. Also love the duck, I really like ducks and feel you can never take enough photos of them. :tup: Those clouds in the city shot are quite splendid also. Just come back from Leeds so I'll probably throw up some photos from there soon.

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Also love the duck, I really like ducks and feel you can never take enough photos of them. :tup:

Ducks are great!

I like insects a lot. This is probably my favourite picture:

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Boy did I annoy that mantis!

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