let's have a look at the pictures you've sent in.

A lot of us have cameras, don't we! So maybe we could show some of our favourite photos what we have taken. Just for fun.

Here's some I found. In no order and not exhaustive at all.

daughter of a TMO contributor!

I was 32 and this is "Dr Manhattan". I quite like this framing.

a bit rubbish, sort of good though. Signs in the foyer of the ICA two weeks ago. looks like sweets.

my first attempt at "reportage"

more neon

I have a series of these at Canary Wharf and quite like the way the fountains all look frozen.

I have taken enough space for now.

edit to shrink

Postman Pat scooters. I'm quite proud of this photo; it was taken in the early days of me owning a Lomo, and I was trying out the "shoot-from-the-hip" style of photography that the camera lends itself to. I think the composition is quite, well, "good".

Holy Week 2002. Easter is magical in southern Spain. Next week I intend to take many more shots like this. Some of them may include Ben.

A horse. Not a real one, but nice all the same.

A 'LomoWall' of a friend of mine.

A toilet.

A view from my terrace.

new york

reykjavik

my nanny

tiger bay

d00d! I didn't know you went to clan meets!

I tend to like pictures that tell a story. I thought this one did.

Mmm. Breakfast. Near Russell Square, London.

Near Kenmore Square, Boston.

New Orleans...

Boston again...

A cause-and-effect shot. The 'cause' is to the left.

Let's try this again.

Self Portrait - 2001

Flower - 2001

Brooklyn - 2002

Times Square - 2002

(MF- You might see doubles on your photo upload thingy...sorry about that. Can you delete the giant photos?)

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Here's more:

Cambridge - 2003

Cambridge - 2003

Stonehenge - 2003

Dammit. Stupid spaces in my damn saving. Grr.

Ditto on encouraging Waynester to post. The more the merrier.

I can't help but be impressed overall though - good stuff from all sides, mine excepted of course.

I've been theorizing on the equipment behind the shots - digital or film? Am asssuming most are 35mm - not sure of what mart's lomos is. (I particularly liked the lomos one with the gnome in the foreground.)

Props to whoever knows which film this is taken from.

Well, this is it. My "Best Ever Photo". It looks a little more impressive hanging in my bathroom. Oh well.

Froopy: a Lomo is a Russian rangefinder, a copy of the Minox 35 (without replicating it entirely). It's something of a trendy wankie culty camera, cleverly marketed by the "Lomography" people in Vienna to make you think you're buying something incredibly amazing, when really all it has is an impressively luminous lens and an interesting tunnel effect (bright centre, dark corners). It does have its charm though, and since owning one I rarely pick up my SLR.

More below. Who are we waiting for, Misc at least.

this is my mater at home

cheeze

about as good as Brockley gets

edit: if i could remember file names, i'd be dangerous

Oh and I do mostly band photography, hence the images of lots of band members.

Leidseplein, Amsterdam, 1.30 am December

Jay from Zen Motel

Donna. I know out of focus, and badly lit, but I just love the unobtrousiveness - just a natural picture of someone I love very much.

Share Pedersen (Bubble/Dogs D'Amour, ex-Vixen)

Amsterdam Riot Police. Waynster gets political

Like I said they are not really much cop - the policeman is badly lit (yeah I could post process in Photoshop but that';s cheating right?) and though the Piccie of Share is badly lit, I do like it.

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Originally posted by froopyscot:

I've been theorizing on the equipment behind the shots - digital or film? Am asssuming most are 35mm - not sure of what mart's lomos is. (I particularly liked the lomos one with the gnome in the foreground.)

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Well to proove that equipment doth not the picture make I have one of these:

It really is the most outstanding camera I have ever had the pleasure to use, let alone own. Yes it cost me a horrible amount of money, as did for all the peripherals (I reckon a bit above 4000 pounds all told) but its been a progression - I have owned several Cameras - my first was a completely Manual Praktica MTL-5B, Then a Minolta 5000, A Nikon F601, A Sony DSC-P70 (my first Digital) and now the D100. The Praktica was a great learning tool, and I think maybe one of my problems is that I may have forgotten one or two of the skills, though I do hope to rectify this by doing a photography course soon. The move to Digital seemed natural to me, being the techie I am and the Sony was great, but I missed the overall controllability, and I suppose freedom you have with an SLR, so when the D100 came out, I had to have one.

I do find however that I take the Nikon everywhere, like you would your wallet or house keys, and have really started to fall in Love with photography all over again. It also is paying for itself in a way, in that it is opening doors for me - the band photography is starting to take off a bit, and I have a couple of tours to shoot starting next weekend, and I have had some used by the BBC, and this one by the VPRO:

Its a guy called Neil Leyton from Canada who I have seen a couple of times. Its been used a fair bit, and tomorrow I have to get some promo photos made for the record label in the UK, so yeah, the D100 is doing me good!

Be interested to hear what other people used for kit

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Originally posted by kovacs:
I really like those Waynester -- the one you're apologising for focus on is so great with the blue of the entire room except for the fire. Every time someone new posts on this thread I think "fuck, my pics are outclassed!"

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Thank you so much Kovacs - I am so often dissapointed with the shots I take, but to have them appreciated by another photographer really rebuilds my confidence. But as for your pictures being outclassed - no way! I actually thought that a couple of them were good enough for stock photography - particularly the Daughter shot, the Reykjavik shot and even the one of your Nan - have you ever tried selling or considered this?

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Originally posted by mart:
Waynster, those are quality photos. I also really like Froopy's diner - pure American Graffiti (except for the rain), and Amy's really sharp b+w one of the bridge in Cambridge, and the Brooklyn subway one, a copy of which hangs on the wall in my office. And I would agree that Ko's coffee-cup pic is pro catalogue quality.

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Thanks Mart - as I said to Kovacs, getting positive respoonse from fellows of the art really is so encouraging. I am very tempted to go take the D100 for a walk now actually

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Aren't we cool.

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Of course. All Moonies are

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Originally posted by kovacs:

I do think some of my pictures look like hotel magazine copy but that always struck me as evidence of some inner cheesiness and a kind of kitsch conservatism in my framing -- look even in the above small selection how many have an object like a wine glass all unfocused in the foreground. "'Boasters', the Travel Inn restaurant, with its executive area for entertaining those important clients, is open for your use between 8am and 11pm."

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Cheesiness? Kitsch? Photographers eye - not something you can necessarily learn, allthough I am striving to, but often a gift, a part of your genetic make up. Cherish it, don't doubt it.

I am really impressed with everyones work on here, and it does put some of my work to shame, but however after reading the comments I did look again at the shots I posted, amd realised that they are not that bad after all. I suppose the thing is to appreciate, but still be critical of your own work.

Actually last night I went to see Steve Earle play at the Paradiso - an old church which is now a music venue here in Amsterdam. No real security and I could so have easily have got in with My Lowepro backpack, the guys beiung none the wiser I was packing my camera. As great as the gig was, I did keep finding myself cursing that I had not bought the kit with me as the lighting was so right, and with the 70-300 (effective 105-450 - SLR-CCD conversion problem/benefit) I could have got some cracking shots from right at the back where I stood). Bugger.

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Originally posted by sabian:
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