your favourite photo from your online album

squareballoon

I'm sure it's been done before but time to update. What is your favourite photo from your flickr stream or pix.ie (or other)

This is my favourite picture from my set because it's proabbaly the most adventurous shot I've taken. Whenever I see it I tell myself to do more experimental stuff but then time gets sucked up doing other things.

le_girl

joolsveer

joanofarc

Square balloon that is a stunning picture! Color is fantastic andchild is gorgeous.

oshead

That's easy. It's a new one for me.

eeyore2502

My favourite is of our 15 year old Springer, just wish the background wasn't so cluttered

Morrisseeee

My fav



/....jebus, its been so long since I've picked up the ould camera :eek:

gloobag

Slidinginfinity

I love this shot not just for the pretty picture but it is the most recent photo that turned out (almost) exactly as I saw it in my head, before I pressed the shutter release.

Kintarō Hattori

My favourite photo for a few reasons. I had bought the DSLR a month or two previously and was excited at the thought of bringing it to Poland and hopefully getting lots of opportunity to use it. This was my first serious camera and a big step up from what I had used previously, a compact then followed very briefly by a bridge camera. While there I took plenty of photos, processed some and filed the rest away.
Sometime later after having become more comfortable with processing and during something of a new picture drought I looked back over my photos and started processing these pictures which I had looked at initially and then dismissed. It was great to view these in a new light with new ideas.

It's also a photo that means a lot to me as it was the year I got my best friend and my brother to come to Poland with the other half and myself. Normally we'd just go ourselves but we managed to convince the others to come with us. My friend is something of a character for the camera and so it was great taking photos of him in an environment that was new to him. At the time he was rather taken with this Trabant and I think it made for a nice photo.


This is a really nice idea for a thread by the way. I just hope more people give some background as to why the image they've chosen is their favourite rather than just posting a photo.

baby and crumble

This one, because it was on my first trip with a DSLR and my battery was nearly dead after a long day... I just love how the light worked!

Not so much because it's a great photo (though I do really like it) but because it reminds me of a great day. It was the first time I ever arranged to be somewhere purely in a photographic capacity (Fire Station). Also met many great people, one of whom I still keep in touch with regularly, and it was just generally a great experience. At the time I'd only really began playing with my camera properly. Started reading up on it and checking in here more regularly for three months or so before I visited them, but that one day benefitted me greatly.

(Cheers, Drogheda Fire & Rescue! )

toe_knee

Not my best picture but I like it
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Revolution9

I'm an amateur, and not long after purchasing my first camera I went to Dublin Zoo and took this. First picture I had taken myself that I truely loved.

Mountainsandh

Father and daughter by mountainsandheather, on Flickr

I like this pic best, it was an exciting evening, experimenting and learning, and sharing that with my family. This fireplace was special, now replaced by a stove, but we won't forget it and I've the pic to remember it by (our house and its character are a big deal to us). I hadn't really thought out exactly what kind of a story I wanted to invent, but I wanted it to be "spirity" but not too creepy/sad either, so I think this one achieves that. The original idea was that my daughter would be the real live one in the pic (having her as the spirit was too worrying...:(:o) but she moved as a 4 yo will...

ike

Here's mine, taken 2 years ago when I seen it I knew straightaway it had to be converted to b&w. Got a series of 3 shots which display nicely together. Why do I like it?? I just like the simplicity of the composition, and also it was taken in the back garden no big planning or production involved

phog

Very hard to pick a favourite but as I have this one as my desktop I suppose it's also one of my favourites.

Chorcai

My Gandmother is 90 yrs old, with alzheimer's, parkinson's and breast cancer. Yet she always has a smile on her face. 19th of March 2010 my Grandmother turned 91. She is married to my Grandad for over 60yrs! I think its more but we can't remember how long now! Together longer than some people have lived, quite amazing really.

My Grandmother played a huge role in my life when I growing up, for many reasons.

Hugh_C

that's an amazing image Chorcai, truly great.

Here's one of my faves:

stray hair

model:Ciara D | photo Hugh_C

one of my early forays into heavy post production, the daft cut just worked and she looks like a mannequin rather than a human.

smelltheglove

It's quite hard for me because I dont have a hell of a lot in online albums. I also have too many pics to choose from, haha. Ok so this is the first one that came to mind so I will post this one but there are many more I like equally. I just loved photographing this girl, all of her images turned out so well and I really enjoyed the shoot as I shot with both PaulW and Dodgykeeper, we had great fun.

bernard0368

This is one of my favourite's she was the child of a family who ran a restaurant (more a shed on the side of the road) in the chinese countryside. The poverty they lived in was a shock more than I have seen anywhere else. Yet they were full of life and happiness. I was the first western person they had seen and the little one just kept sitting opposite me staring. As you do you start messing with them. Children the world over are the same and love a little attention, when I was leaving I gave her a pack of sweets I had in my pocket and her joy was a sight I will never forget.
To be followed by arguing with the parents who would no accept payment (€2.00) for the lunch because of my kindness to their kid. I ended up having to take a large water melon with me as a thank-you before they would take the money for the bill.

Jim

Mine is probably Citizen Fish playing in Le Cirk. Not really sure why. Probably because it's the most unusual of gig shots I've taken.

alb

on flickr
on pix.ie

This is back from the summer of 2003. I was just getting into digital photography and I had just bought my first prosumer camera - a Fuji S602. While walking through Galway I took a series of shots of the street entertainer Johnny Massacre. Little did I know he would tragically die soon afterwards in a car accident

Gambler

Mine is definitely this one, was trying for ages to get a halfway decent picture of birds in flight and then this just happened when I wasn't expecting it at all:

Mountainsandh

Wooohhh !!! Had you just done a good deed or donated to a charity or something ??? :D
you must have been in the good books...

Gambler

Hehe yeah it was definitely just perfect how it worked out, I only brought the camera because my wife was bugging me to get some nice pictures of the dogs so we took them down to bushy park and all the birds suddenly flew in from no-where when someone started feeding the ducks. Was well chuffed on the way home

jpb1974

Maybe this one...

dinneenp

hard to pick just one (obviously)....

Eirebear

Its hard to pick one to be honest but i'll go with this justnow. I love shooting with this girl using her both as a model and also as an MUA.

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dinneenp

is there any thread for something like 'your fav pic from last month?

superflyninja

so hard to pick. but because of memories Id say this one.

aFlabbyPanda

One of my very first when I got my slr but one of favorite. Some day I'll get print done of it.

homer simpson

My fav photo is this one, it was one of the lucky ocasions where everything seemed to work, wish i had more of them ocasions, lol.

Visuelle

Beautiful memories from a beautiful place, Dubrovnik.

Salmon Leap

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Carton Estate, Co Kildare during the Big Freeze 2010.

greeneyedspirit

favourite... hmm. Probably this one, for quirkiness, and because it sums this little bird up so well -

ilovebiccies

all these photos are fab...are they all taken from those big fancy cameras with the massive expensive lenses or are any from your run of the mill digital cameras?

love looking at photos and have to get a new camera....want to take a photography course up as my new hobby but do i really need a great expensive camera for them to look that great or would i be ok using a digital camera?

Kintarō Hattori

ilovebiccies wrote: »

all these photos are fab...are they all taken from those big fancy cameras with the massive expensive lenses or are any from your run of the mill digital cameras?

love looking at photos and have to get a new camera....want to take a photography course up as my new hobby but do i really need a great expensive camera for them to look that great or would i be ok using a digital camera?

You don't need a fancy camera to take a great photo. A lot of photography is to do with recognizing the moment or scene for a good photo. Having a good camera helps but it's not necessarily expensive.
I think the best advice I could give you would to really try and use your existing camera (even if it's just a compact) to its maximum potential before you move onto something more expensive.

cynder

this one taken near grindelwald in switzerland, it was taken with a cheap point and shoot camera

cynder

ilovebiccies wrote: »

all these photos are fab...are they all taken from those big fancy cameras with the massive expensive lenses or are any from your run of the mill digital cameras?

love looking at photos and have to get a new camera....want to take a photography course up as my new hobby but do i really need a great expensive camera for them to look that great or would i be ok using a digital camera?

My above photo was taken with a cheap point and shoot camera, this photo was taken yesterday with my new bridge camera, ive taken about 30 different pictures with my new camera and this one i like the most.



this is not taken with a DSLR its the next best thing if you cant afford or know how to use a DSLR. (lumix fz38), i would have never got that pic with a point and shoot.

Mountainsandh

ilovebiccies wrote: »

all these photos are fab...are they all taken from those big fancy cameras with the massive expensive lenses or are any from your run of the mill digital cameras?

love looking at photos and have to get a new camera....want to take a photography course up as my new hobby but do i really need a great expensive camera for them to look that great or would i be ok using a digital camera?

I'm just learning too, got a dslr now, but my pic in this thread #15 was taken with my Fujifilm Finepix S5600, it was a great bridge camera for learning how to use manual settings (and other settings). It's got all the features of your basic point and shoot, but you can also wheel it onto Aperture Priority, Shutter speed Priority, or fully Manual. You can also select a good range of Iso, and switch to manual focus (although in my time on that camera it wasn't the greatest).
Whatever their new version is, they're generally cheap and great value for money for starting (why not a second hand one ?).

Salmon Leap

ilovebiccies wrote: »

all these photos are fab...are they all taken from those big fancy cameras with the massive expensive lenses or are any from your run of the mill digital cameras?

love looking at photos and have to get a new camera....want to take a photography course up as my new hobby but do i really need a great expensive camera for them to look that great or would i be ok using a digital camera?

Mine is #35 on the thread and was taken with a Bridge Camera (Sony DSC-H7).

101001

cant pick a favourite.... but maybe this. One of the first decent photos i took after sucking most of my life

Nebezpeci Mys

Hmmmm, that's difficult - if I should chose from shots taken in last 12 months, it would be one of my holiday shots in the US...but if it was an overall winner, it would be this...

Sir Gallagher

This is my favourite photo i've taken so far, when i first took it i felt it was missing something so after doing a fair bit of PP on it i got the desired result. I've always loved this bridge ever since i was a young lad so i was glad to have captured it from an interesting angle. I like the various patterns in it, from the shadows on the road coming from the bridge to the bikes across the street to the beams underneath the bridge. I'm only at this photography lark for about 6 months now and this will probably be my first shot that i'll get printed properly and be proud to hang on my wall.

nelly1912

Chorcai wrote: »

My Gandmother is 90 yrs old, with alzheimer's, parkinson's and breast cancer. Yet she always has a smile on her face. 19th of March 2010 my Grandmother turned 91. She is married to my Grandad for over 60yrs! I think its more but we can't remember how long now! Together longer than some people have lived, quite amazing really.

My Grandmother played a huge role in my life when I growing up, for many reasons.

http://photos2.pix.ie/33/94/3394CE6022EA429DBC9BB0C2A7EABB77-800.jpg

a truley touching photograph

Promac

101001 wrote: »

cant pick a favourite.... but maybe this. One of the first decent photos i took after sucking most of my life

That's shockingly good. Well done.

trooney

kevvhayes

CSC_0177 by kevvhayes, on Flickr
this is the subway at the Dakota Building. being a big Lennon fan makes this my favourite

bigjoe

mikka631

My particular fav at the moment, might be something else tomorrow..../Mikka