The Photography Thread (cds, albums, quote, talented, 2009)

[reno42]

Originally Posted by Fraig

The exchange district/downtown Winnipeg

I thought I recognized that!! One of my favourite places to hang out around :P

[CanwllCorfe]

I have quite a few, but i'll just post a couple ,,these are all from Gettysburg







this one was taken in Florida for a girl I like, her name is Kristy

[Guybrush]

^Very nice and artsy

As most of you know, I've been living up in the arctic for some time and, while I've never had a really good camera, I did get some interesting pictures from up there ..

I've got a flickr account where my pictures are all up (available in all sizes), so I'll just make the pictures link to my account there. If you wanna see the secret pics (pics with actual people in'em), just register, let me know and I'll add you as a friend.

Here's a yawning polar bear, picture taken at the north polar ice-cap.




This is what the polar ice-cap looked like from the boat in august 2007 when the fog came rolling over the ice .. It was basically just an endless ice-landscape, but the fog added that ghostly touch.




For some reason, I get the message I'm over my limit when I try to post more pics, so I'll continue in my next post ..

[Guybrush]

Here we are in a rubber boat in front of a glacier. In the middle, you can see the boat "Stockholm" which is a lovely vessel to go on an arctic cruise with. Just after I took the picture, the glacier calved producing a thunderous sound and some rather big waves.




Here are some reindeer. Most animals around Longyearbyen have little fear of people .. reindeer, ptarmigans, polar foxes .. and so they hang around. For reindeer, settlements mean more high-quality grub and shelter from the wind.




Here you can see the colour of the tundra in late summer ..




And here we are on a trip in april 2007. It's impossible to tell distances on Spitsbergen .. Those humps of snow in the distance are big mountains, many kilometres away.




Hm, now I'm getting more error messages -_-

[Guybrush]

And, just to show you that I too can be artsy-fartsy, here's a picture of a Silene acaulis, one of many lovely flowers you can find up on Svalbard during the short summer ..

[jackhammer]

You have such an interesting job lost out there amid the beauty of mother nature. I know the loneliness may get too much sometimes but I should imagine that the solitude is also embraced at times.

[Guybrush]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

You have such an interesting job lost out there amid the beauty of mother nature. I know the loneliness may get too much sometimes but I should imagine that the solitude is also embraced at times.

Yeah, it's a bittersweet thing. It was especially weird for me during the polar night last november/december when it was dark all day and there were not many people around. I was going to work in the lab everyday, usually without meeting anyone on the way in our out and then walking in the dark, wind and the snow back to this empty barrack .. There was just this really strange and kind of unreal feeling to it all. Sometimes it felt like everyone was gone and I was the only person left. But yeah, it does have it's own strange appeal .. A part of me miss it .. And of course I miss drinking myself stupid in front of the computer just listening to music.

Being up there on my own without music or internet would be too much for me, though.

Walking over the tundra for hours is really peaceful. I tend to get lost in my own thoughts and just walk while I stare like 2 metres in front of my feet until I suddenly remember that I should keep a lookout for bears.

It was during my last lonely period up there that I joined up on MB - another positive thing to come out of my time there ..

[Kevorkian Logic]

My roommate's girlfriend's gerbil. I swear to god all that thing does is **** and chew holes in my clothing. I'm about to take it home and feed it to my dogs.


I don't usually take pictures of people for any arts reason whatsoever, but I still kinda like how it turned out


This is one of my dogs, the big white thing near her foot was a snowflake, and i'm not talented enough in photoshop to know how to get rid of it


A flower from the villa I stayed at this summer in Italy

[Molecules]

gerbils are f*cking evil, the worst pets ever. I had two when I was a kid and when we got back from holiday the cages were empty, we found two piles of guts neatly arranged at the bottom of the stairs. How the f*ck do cats do it? That photo is great but to me that looks like a wild animal, they shouldnt be skittering around chewing the sh*t out of furniture. Oh yeah and chinchillas are a pain in the arse aswell

[Kevorkian Logic]

Originally Posted by Molecules

gerbils are f*cking evil, the worst pets ever. I had two when I was a kid and when we got back from holiday the cages were empty, we found two piles of guts neatly arranged at the bottom of the stairs. How the f*ck do cats do it? That photo is great but to me that looks like a wild animal, they shouldnt be skittering around chewing the sh*t out of furniture. Oh yeah and chinchillas are a pain in the arse aswell

I'm a Alzheimer's patient concerning this gerbil.

About once a week I feel really bad for it having to be stuck in a ball all day and I let it out. And everytime I let it out it ****s everywhere and chews holes in the clothing that's on the floor, and I swear to god i'm never going to let out this damned rat again, and then the next week I forget what a pain it is when it's out, and I let it out and run around, and it ****s and chews things.