Photography

[Niniel]

I love taking pictures. I am still learning though, and recently replaced my simple little camera for a canon 30D :D

Anybody here interested in photography?

[Sowen]

I am:)
Lucky you with the better camera!

Since I bought my first digital camera I found it very enjoyable. i am not a specialist but it is great to take some photos - there are so many beautiful things everywhere - we just need to open our eyes wider..
However, I need new, better camera - my old one made me cry last time. I saw such outstanding views but on pictures they were very poor (my camera has problem with zoom photos):(..well, I have started savings already!:)

Have you got any galeries or any place on the Internet to see any of your pictures?

[Emmie]

I do photography sometimes. :) Have a Canon 10D. I don't have the time to take as many pictures as I once did, but it's still an interest of mine.

What type of pictures do you two like to take?

[Lanyare]

I'd actually love to explore photography, but unfortunately I don't really have the camera for it, I'm afraid. Never done much of it, either, to be honest, next to holiday pictures.
But pictures can be absolutely awesome to look at.

[Sowen]

heh, it can be really frustrating when you sink into it with wrong (weak) camera:> some pictures - technique and ideas are so great to look and admire..

About my pictures - I love flowers and everytime I see new one I can not resist...especialy in the spring when everything start blooming..anyway, Scotland gives opportunity to see and shoot many interesting landscapes and places as castles, old houses and forgotten cemitries...there are so many beatiful places...oh, and I forgot about babysheeps - so cute!!!But it is difficoult to take a good picture as they are very fearful and running away before I can press the button;)
I also wish to take pictures of old buildings in Wroclaw and Warsaw when I go back to Poland. There are still some places full of spirits, which remember old times but I am afraid soo they will be destroyed..after many years will be iteresting to look how cities are changed..

[Niniel]

Have you got any galeries or any place on the Internet to see any of your pictures?

I got some on flickr. But that's only old photo's I've taken with my ''point and shoot'' camera. Might upload some new ones when I'm no longer on dial-up.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlotteknudsen/

I love taking landscape pictures, and also take photo's of old buildings...unfortunately there's not too many of them in NZ:p

[Emmie]

I'm mostly into nature photography myself - so landscapes, plants, and wildlife if I'm lucky. :)

I'd also take pictures of castles/cemeteries/old buildings if I could, though there aren't many where I live either.

[Lanyare]

There are indeed amazing castles and landscapes to be found in Scotland! I went there a couple of years ago, and absolutely loved it! If you get a chance and haven't done so, be sure to go and visit Melrose Abbey. It's a ruin of an abbey (well, obviously an abbey lol), and not that much is standing anymore, but what is left of it, is really awesome. I think it must have been an incredibly beautiful place at the time.

Austria was also great for taking pictures of landscapes... The thing is, I can't claim most of the pictures we took in Scotland and Austria as my own. Seeing as my Ranger was the one who actually took most of them (though, on my direction, lol).

I'd love to see Ireland as well sometime.

[Sowen]

really good stuff Niniel, beautiful places! Next time on Skye I have to find the Faerie Glen - It must be amazing - I saw similar places already but I heard about that place as well. You can feel magic there...
You're right Lanyare - Melrose s on my list to see. Only limitation for me is the fact I have no driving licence and I can't go as often I wish to go everywhere..

Anyway, last week I was for 3 days in Highland again. I travelled the way from Fort William to Mallaig. I heard before it is nice trip and I wanted to see also the Glenfinnian viaduct (the one from Harry Potter). Well, the movie showes beauty of this area but in reality it is hundread times better - not only couple of similat viaducts but the wild mountains, silent lakes and small houses lost between...gosh, I HAVE to come back there. However, I was not able to take many pictures as we didn't stop on the way and the glass in the bus was to dark to shoot anything..nevermind, next time. If someone of you will have a chance to go there I really recommend!

By the way, have you find any places you could tell it's Middle Earth ot any places like from faerie tales? (ok Niniel, I know it's easiest for you anyway:P) Even in my home county there are such a places but I haven't got so many pictures from Poland..but Scotland makes very often the feeling that I am in different word...
I try to add to the profile album few of my pictures like that later on

[Lanyare]

Niniel: Took some time to have a look at your pictures now... I thought they were awesome. You sure have an eye for it, I'd say.
And Faery Glenn looks sooo amazing! I'll have to return to Scotland and check it out. Just can't believe I missed that!

Sowen: Hehe, did you know you can actually take a steam train in Fort William, to Mallaig? I actually crossed that viaduct by steam train, myself. :D
The landscape is very nice during that ride. By the way, I also remember us making a lot of stops on the road from Aviemore (where we were camping) to Fort William, to take pictures.

Normally, I'm a sun worshipper. But Scotland was one of the best trips I did so far. It's so so beautiful out there.

[Niniel]

Thanks, Sowen and Lanyare! :)

Fearie Glen is amazing. Everything is much smaller there, even the trees...almost makes you feel like the place is magical. After all, the door to the fariry-world is supposed to be located there.
I really want to go back to Scotland and take some photos with a proper camera.

Also wish I had taken more photos in Norway when I was living there...There's alot of places there I could picture as middle earth:D

[Sowen]

I know :) there is also the steam train called "Hogwart Express" and they have offers for one day trips..unfortunately it runs only in summer time - in April there is no Jacobite Trains even...anyway, travellling by bus give possibilities to see all viaducts on the way..I hope I will manage to take a train trip as well...Lucky you if you had a sun! It is not easy to have such a weather here...there was non stop rain for 3 weeks when I firstly arrived to Scotland..I coudn't believe that it is possible!

[Lanyare]

Niniel: Wow, you've been living in a lot of different places then! It sounds so cool. You get to see something of the world, and because you actually live there, I think you get to know the culture better than if you're just there on holidays.

Sowen: Aye, that is the train I took... Not that I'm such a big Harry Potter fan, but the idea of riding over the exact same viaduct sounded appealing. Hadn't realized we're not the high season right now, though.
As for the sun... We must have been very lucky, I suppose, for most of the time we had really nice weather. Sure, there were some rainy spells daily, but it wasn't cold and the sun showed herself regularly even.
One thing that was fun as well, was how the mountaintop we were looking at from our camping spot, would at one time be shrouded with clouds, and the next moment in plain view, and then only ringed. Stuff like that changed in just a matter of seconds!

The past couple of days, I've been admiring the world during my trainrides to and from work. That, combined with this conversation, makes we want to buy a good camera and try my hand at photography as well.

[Niniel]

Niniel: Wow, you've been living in a lot of different places then! It sounds so cool. You get to see something of the world, and because you actually live there, I think you get to know the culture better than if you're just there on holidays.

Well, I'm from Norway, so it dosen't really count:p

But I do love travelling and experiencing different cultures. When I went to england a few years ago, I was supposed to be there for 2 weeks, but ended up staying for a year:p


Wow, the ''Hogwarts Express'' sounds awesome! I'll definitively do that if I come back to the UK. Can't believe I missed it the last time...



Any of you have any pictures to show?:)

[Lanyare]

Just holiday pictures, on my end, and most of those not taken by myself, either. So they aren't really material for this thread. Will try and save up for a nice beginner camera, though, and once I've started I will post some.
Any tips as to what I should start with, for a camera, are welcome.

Niniel: Still, you're very lucky you could make that decision to stay longer than intended! I highly doubt my employer would like the idea if I called in... Besides, can't afford 'crazyness' right now anyways, as we've bought a house. Not that I regret that, as I love it and can't wait to finally move in there. I just can't have everything haha. I do love travelling as well, and will always make sure that at least I can go on holidays somewhere yearly. First couple of years will be closerby trips by necessity, off course. There's still a lot of places in Europe I haven't been to yet, so comes in handy. ;)

[Sowen]

huh, would be great for me to stay for longer in a place that I like...never ming a job...but there alwayys something what limits us...

I have added few pics to the profile album if anyone wants to see, enjoy!:)

[Niniel]

Wonderful photos Sowen! Got a real Middle Earth feeing to them.


Lanyare, that sounds wonderful. We're looking for a house as well, but haven't found one yet, you're lucky to have found one you love:)

Traveling was fun, but not able to do that as much anymore, having settled down with a family and all:p:)

[Sowen]

Thanks Niniel:)
seeing and beeing in such a places it's like to be in different world..:)

[Lanyare]

Lol, do I feel silly now! I wasn't even aware there WAS an album! :o

In any case, Sowen, the pictures you posted there are great! The gate to the sea really made me think of the Grey Havens!
But the magic lantern, on the other hand, reminded me more The Chronicles of Narnia... I was immediately reminded of The Magician's Nephew for some reason. ;)

Níniel: And one that we could afford, as well... Sometimes, while we were still looking around, I'd wish we would win the lottery or something. This one's a newly built, part of a residential building project really. It's not, as I always dreamt of having, a detached house, but since I liked the building style so much I don't mind that at all! Plus: being newly built, we could choose everything to our liking. I take a few pictures when it's ready and post them.

[Sowen]

I would say it is the worst part of being adult - there are always limitation for realising our dreams - probably soon I will hav the same problem with looking for a house, uh..I know I won't get suh one I wish to have....:/

About the lantern - I also tought about Narnia when I see such lanterns - there is many of them in Edinburgh but not so many in picturesque sorrouding;). That's why I call the album "looking for a magic":)