What's on your photo hit list?

[Ryewolf]

There's quite a few things on my photo hit list but at the moment but the one at the top of my list at the moment is a Kingfisher. While I see them quite often - usualy a blue blur as they fly away - I've never been able to to a photograph of one. Tommorrow I'm off to Martin Mere in the hope I might see one.

So what's at the top of your photo hit list?

[Phil]

At the moment it has to be getting the daughter and 2 granddaughters together, to sit still, to smile, while clean and dressed nicely for a portrait shoot. Quite a task I can tell you

[Ryewolf]

My getting a Kingfisher sounds quite easy to compared to that.... I remember being a kid and sitting still or being clean where never very important.... A diificu;t task.

[Black Pearl]

A shot of the milky way - its coming to the right time of year for clear skies and long nights so fingers crossed.

[FUJI]

You may have noticed, that I have no particular ....Hit List......my eyes are my guide, and my inspiration, and my camera the tool that makes my photographs what they are.

I once had a hankering to capture a Kingfisher....and other birds or insects for that matter.....then, after a while, I realised that all Kingfishers are almost exactly the same, unless of course you can catch one mid flight with a dripping fish in its beak.

I sometimes wish I had more photogenic landscape close by.....our famous Castle next door is such a cliche to local folk, we walk past it daily without a second glance ......sad to say many landscapes too have become photographic cliches.

when we first set out on the Photographic road......we all go through the exciting stage of say.....Bird in Flight.......First Rose of Summer......Autumn Leaves.....Bluebell Woods.....etc, etc.....but I am sure for most....Photographer Mojo wains after we have practically gone through the cliche list.

Could I encourage you therefore to, lift your eyes beyond the obvious, the cliche, and the mundane......instead....seek out the very essence of life around you, or the deeper corners of our wonderful world......it can be found, in portraiture, Street Photography, The Coast and  within the miniature world of insects and bugs.

Above all, enjoy our amazing hobby to its fullest extent........I do. 

FUJI

FUJI

Edited October 10, 2015 by FUJI

[Black Pearl]

You may have noticed, that I have no particular ....Hit List......my eyes are my guide, and my inspiration, and my camera the tool that makes my photographs what they are.

I once had a hankering to capture a Kingfisher....and other birds or insects for that matter.....then, after a while, I realised that all Kingfishers are almost exactly the same, unless of course you can catch one mid flight with a dripping fish in its beak.

I sometimes wish I had more photogenic landscape close by.....our famous Castle next door is such a cliche to local folk, we walk past it daily without a second glance ......sad to say many landscapes too have become photographic cliches.

when we first set out on the Photographic road......we all go through the exciting stage of say.....Bird in Flight.......First Rose of Summer......Autumn Leaves.....Bluebell Woods.....etc, etc.....but I am sure for most....Photographer Mojo wains after we have practically gone through the cliche list.

Could I encourage you therefore to, lift your eyes beyond the obvious, the cliche, and the mundane......instead....seek out the very essence of life around you, or the deeper corners of our wonderful world......it can be found, in portraiture, Street Photography, The Coast and  within the miniature world of insects and bugs.

Above all, enjoy our amazing hobby to its fullest extent........I do. 

FUJI

FUJI

....so long as you also have a list of things you'd like to aspire to because there is nothing wrong in having a dream.

[FUJI]

....so long as you also have a list of things you'd like to aspire to because there is nothing wrong in having a dream.

No, not any more ROBIN............when you get to my age, there is no need, as long as your health is reasonable, grow old disgracefully.......like what Korky and I do 

Oh!........Hang on!.......there is just one thing........an iPad Pro 

 

FUJI

[Ryewolf]

You make a good point, the Kingfisher might be a bit cliched, but I see them so often and yet have been so elusive. I think a lot of wildlife photographers never stop chasing that perfect shot, I think we all do that to sme degree, it;s not just a matter of ticking of boxes. I'd never seen Red Squirrels befor this year, but that hasn't stopped me wanting to see more. I think a lot of the pleasure is being out there and seeing it with your own eyes, the photographs are an attemt to convey what we saw on that particular day.

[Guest]

my hit list is easy or so I thought, a damn Magpie, they see me without a camera they hop over, with a camera the fly away

[JHFoto]

A little useful information for anyone wishing to photograph the Northern Lights, the main destination over recent years for this has been Iceland. A professional photographer friend of mine say's northern Finland is the best place for this because its not an island and less at the mercy of adverse weather conditions.

Edited October 10, 2015 by JHFoto

[Ryewolf]

my hit list is easy or so I thought, a damn Magpie, they see me without a camera they hop over, with a camera the fly away

They are difficult, very shy and skittish and not only that the contrast between lights and darks is always tricky, I have Magpies that visit my yard every day - they come for the wrms I put out and I;ve still to get a really nicely exposed shot of one. Yet you can't really go anywhere without hearing or seeing one.

Jays are another common bird I see that I;ve never been able to photograph - and I see them all the time - theyre even shyier than Magpies.

[Korky]

I'm quite keen to learn more about shooting video, but at the moment, real life and my not unusual dollop of laziness are getting in the way.

I'm off to Cyprus soon, so maybe then. 

Korky

Edited October 11, 2015 by Korky

[Phoenix]

Mine is not a photo hit list. Rather to nail using lightroom. As for the kingfisher.... we actually hand feed a bunch of kookaburras- funny little fellows and very photogenic

[NannyFerret]

I just want to get more motivated to shoot anything.

I had my sons dog for two weeks before my holidays and my daughters dog for two separate times when she was away after we came home off our holidays, so had my hands quite full lately.

[CanonChrissy]

To get in a studio

[Leon]

There's quite a few things on my photo hit list but at the moment but the one at the top of my list at the moment is a Kingfisher. While I see them quite often - usualy a blue blur as they fly away - I've never been able to to a photograph of one. Tommorrow I'm off to Martin Mere in the hope I might see one.

So what's at the top of your photo hit list?

Penington flash, Pengy's hide

[JHFoto]

I am in the process of creating an AV at the moment, will post when complete......

[Leon]

I started a thread like this last year I think..

mine's pretty easy, I just need some spare time and money, I just want to wander round the very tip of scotland in my car and take Photo's of whatever I want too.

AND do the same round the Lake district.   and Iceland, the ice is some pictures looks amazing.

Did I mention Utah?

Guess there are many things I want to photograph....