What's on your wall?

Personally, my main living area is filled up with pics of my 2 babies. I won't post them as you've probably seen them at some point anyway!

What have you got on your walls, and (if different)what is the all-time number one shot you've taken?

Good question ...

I have few photo's on my wall because I'm lazy ... but to inpire me to stay focused on priorities I have 6 shots from Namibia, Etosha wildlife and the Skeleton Coast, two from Sri Lanka, including one of a Tea Plantation which technically is so-so but it just tickles me for some reason to see my beverage being picked and also reminds me that my work is easy compared to carrying a sack of tea leaves on my back all day in the sun. The last image is boats at the Harbour at Ko Samui, Thailand ... because I like the colour and busy-ness of the scene and that in such places, you either get on the boat or you don't and, if you do, who knows if you'll get across the water or sink. I like that whole life and death thing ...

I do have two large frames empty with room for 6 more but can't be bothered printing and filling them. My photo printer has only been used 8 times so cost me about £15 per print!! I dunno why I take photo's actually as I keep very few. I'm in process of sorting out a photoblog and will get around to uploading some at some point ... or not

As to all time number one shot ... hmm, I dunno if I think like that, because I've never actually thought about it. Emotionally, it's probably an image I took with my ex Kodak DC240 3x optical zoom with a massive 2MP ( the bee's knee's P&S in 1998 ). Amazing how such noise was acceptable, but I thought it was a great camera and I still have it and use it now and again!!

It shows the gate to the Skeleton Coast, which is along the Atlantic Coast of Namibia and a very dangerous place to be on land or at sea. The gate shows a huge skull and crossbones and then in the distance seemingly endless sand. There is really nothing beyond the road sign ... but the place is really alive! No technical critique required I have only so much interest in the whole sharpness, quality, etc debate as for most of us the images that touch us and mean something don't need to be perfect.

No road other than a sand road, unknown weather conditions, dunno if there is enough fuel to get through, even though we had a large spare can full, do we have enough weater and supplies, how long will the trip take, what happens if we break down, will we get stuck in sand, can the vehicle cope, etc. It reminds me of life as life experienced in the moment, rather than life as living death ... all that attachment to things and ego and nonesense like that.

As it happens, the one place that we were promised would have some fuel for a mid way top up, a research station, was closed and we eventually JUST made it to the town at the other side ... about as low on fuel as it gets without stopping.

So, if anyone forgets what P&S quality looked like in 1998 check out the Kodak DC240 3x optical zoom with a massive 2MP below:

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I have several photos and paintings adorning my walls. Only one of the photos is from my own camera, though. I had this one, which I've posted here before, printed as an 8x12:

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Not sure it's my all time favorite, but I printed it and put it on the wall to see how it fit.

KAC

Except for a couple of "wal-mart" portraits (ugh...don't ask) of my daughter, every pic on my walls is one of mine. All were from a 17 day trip a couple of buddies and I took out west back in '99. My all time favorite shot is a 3 foot long Panoramic (4 8x10's side by side then trimmed) from the top of Tunnel Mountain in Banff, Alberta that I had put together from that trip.
Sorry, no diplay here....I've tried several times to get it together in photoshop, but nothing I do with it seems to do it justice.

L8r,

thomascanty wrote:
I have several photos and paintings adorning my walls. Only one of the photos is from my own camera, though. I had this one, which I've posted here before, printed as an 8x12:

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I have about a half dozen more than I've had printed and plan to matte and frame. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I'v seen this picture on webshots. Your version is better I think with the snow. Where is that?

I've seen similar pictures, too. This is probably one of the most photographed old cars around. It's in Bodie, a ghost town in the high Eastern Sierras.

This is my favorite picture so far.......I think the frame is perfect for it.

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Very nice...

The wife is a landscape painter so we have oils on the walls. Photos are in frames on cabinets and bookcases around the house and are mostly children (2 + spouses) and grandchildren (5 + 1 due Aug 18).

Heh I've still got an olympus 1.3mp from 1998 which was my first digital and what brought me into the photography world.

It IS amazing how much noise you could get away with back then! My pics from then compared with those of my 300d are, well... how to emphasise really awful... and I though they were fantastic at the time!

and well deserving of your wall too! I love baby shots. So innocent, and so little time before they go from gurgling and cooing to asking you for the contents of your wallet

Thanks for sharing!

I have several pics on my walls, many my own pics and family pics, don't like empty walls.

here is one of my pics from Dallas Arboretum.

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Its already couple years old, so I probably should find something else to replace, but at the moment this image.

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A 20X30 of this:

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Great idea for a thread.

I have four photos blown up to 24x36 in hanging on my walls. They are: