All these "post your" threads made me think about sharing other hobbies. Especially Ken's post, because almost everyone here is creative in so many ways. Anyway, my others are as follows:

Floral Design
Pool
Music (violin, percussion)

I combine photography in my other hobbies :)

Like some others here, I use my other hobby to get myself around the world and create situations for photos!

http://tinypic.com/6sexaw.jpg

Family not shown. I took the bike shot and it was published in Dirt Rag (user's submission section). That's me on the board and on the kit.
Cheers,
Tim

All these "post your" threads made me think about sharing other hobbies. Especially Ken's post, because almost everyone here is creative in so many ways. Anyway, my others are as follows:

Floral Design
Pool
Music (violin, percussion)
Are you trying to tell me that there are things that can be done without a camera??? NEVER... :p

Ok I give...In no particular...

I have a couple other hobbies, the photo below illustrate my collection of obsolete computers. They are a Wang Dumb Terminal (Circa 1977), a Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 (Circa 1983), a Tandy Colour Compuer 3 (Circa 1986), and a Apple //c (Circa 1984). I have a much larger collection which includes Consols, and Calculators as well.

I've also picked up a new hobby, infultration, going into abandoned placed, exploring ubran structures ect, just for the fun of it. I just got back from doing one. I also write short fiction

Cool shot, Lidarman - coming up with something different for a dog shot can be difficult. Here's mine:

My Malamute and Samoyed taking me for a walk.
Sea kayaking in the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior. Got to make my permit reservation for next month today. Woo hoo!
A friend took this slow-sync flash shot of me at a gig last fall.

Besides my creative side and my family as mentioned in my other post, I am also an Amateur Radio Operator (call sign KC9EXE). I also enjoy tinkering with computers and various electronic things and like Axle, used to have a store room full of "ancient" computers which recently had to be gotten rid of. :-(
I am also a life member in 2 Veterans Orginizations and when I have the time...try to be active in them, but that has been very limited since the grandkids started coming along.
Ken

Never Almo, I just said other hobbies, a camera must always be within reach though. Spiders kinda fall into a "hobby" category for me too. The hobby is staying far from them.

Those computers make me feel so old, lol. Well, we have 2 percussionists, a bassist and guitarist. So, next meet we can have a jam session. What ya think guys?

Oh, did I leave out my bass? Ooops!

Shame on me...:o:rolleyes::p

Here's some from the infultration adventure. Unfortunatly with the batteries almost dying on the camera a lot of the images got corrupted, I only got four out of fifteen images...stupid camera. Also the front lens element got cracked.

Oh well, here they are. And yes there was a sign on the proporty that read "Private Property, No Tresspassing"

I like to play video games and build computer cases. This is formerly a compaq server I spend the entire summer on last year converting to a PC and giving an automotive quality paint job:

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I've done quite a few other pc mods and I also have my macintrash sitting here beside me. It's an old G4 I converted for use as a trashcan.

I like to play video games and build computer cases. This is formerly a compaq server I spend the entire summer on last year converting to a PC and giving an automotive quality paint job:









I've done quite a few other pc mods and I also have my macintrash sitting here beside me. It's an old G4 I converted for use as a trashcan.
Wow! Nice peice!


I'm just the oppisit. I like to take old junkers and max them out and then give them to people that can't afford their own computers.

All these "post your" threads made me think about sharing other hobbies. Especially Ken's post, because almost everyone here is creative in so many ways. Anyway, my others are as follows:

Floral Design
Pool
Music (violin, percussion)

I guess I'm not very creative. My other hobbies include motorcycling, running, biking, road races, triathlons, target shooting, scuba diving and astronomy. Too many hobbies, not enough time (or money). ;-)

Here are a few shots of a few of my hobbies.

First shot is of my buddy Brian and our Celestron C-8's. Took this one last year during the Venus Transit of the Sun.

Second shot is of me and my kids (and one of their friends) after the Beaufort Road Race.

Third shot of of me during a triathlon in North Dakota. The water temp was 56 degrees!

Final shot is my Winchester Model 70 Heavy Barrel.

The water temp was 56 degrees!
What, is that cold? ;)

Well, at least you stay busy. Not enough people stay busy as the group here seems to. I have started hiking and taking nature walks since getting into photography, and my health has greatly improved. We sure have a vast amount of diverse interests here.

BTW, i need some manly hobby like the rest of you. Floral design, lmao! I hesitate on telling people that, but it helps pay the bills!

Cool shot, Lidarman - coming up with something different for a dog shot can be difficult. Here's mine:




My Malamute and Samoyed taking me for a walk.
Sweet...
Reminds me of the sticker, "If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes."

[/list]Sweet...
Reminds me of the sticker, "If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes."
Thanks, and it's true! ;) I took that with my Coolpix and a fisheye, less than a foot from their back legs.

Hmm hobbies, I've got tons...

-Dance (Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Lyrical, Ethnic, Hip Hop)
-Rowing
-Scrapbooking (Embossing)
-Drama
- Reading/Writing
-Photography (given)
-Swimming
-Languages

I'm not too sure how many guys here actually take ballet... :p

What, is that cold? ;)


Not if you're a member of the Polar Bear Club.

Positively frigid if you're a southern boy from North Carolina!

:eek: of bodyige(yesit's a word in my vocabulary)---just cuz rick isn't around these days to put shameless advertisements about his physique doesn't mean you get to hop on the wagon and fill his place....



I was wondering though....




...could you post some more
:D ;)

just cuz rick isn't around these days to put shameless advertisements about his physique doesn't mean you get to hop on the wagon and fill his place....

Nat just when you thought it was safe, LOL

No, I'll spare you the shameless body self-promotion and just give you all a few hobbies...

Hiking
Carpentry and Woodworking
Dancing
Music (both playing and listening - Big Bad VooDoo Daddy pictured)

Nice thread!

Rick

It is a neat thread. I figured it would die and everyone would just be like "what a dork". :D

OK, I can't decide what exactly my "hobbies" are, but I guess here are a few.

theatre
travel ]¬
amateur meteorology w/focus on storms ]----(oh look, I have a photo combining the two!)
art
music (actually I sing, don't play piano much anymore)


I don't have any pictures of my most favorite hobby though: sitting on my computer!

:eek: of bodyige(yesit's a word in my vocabulary)---just cuz rick isn't around these days to put shameless advertisements about his physique doesn't mean you get to hop on the wagon and fill his place....



I was wondering though....




...could you post some more
:D ;)


For you Nat, absolutely!

:-D

Another from the Beaufort Road Race. My kids are wearing the green shirts.

And a couple more from the Triathlon Days in North Dakota.

The first one is of me and a couple of my friends waiting for the race to start. It was chilly.

The second one is of my buddy Chuck and myself post-race. It had warmed up considerably - and so had we!

Last one is another post race shot of all the Air Force boys that came from Minot to participate.

Oh good, someone who can appreciate my junk !

2x RML 480Z, with network interfaces (remember Ziolg Z-net?) and disk drive.
IMI 8" 8M hard drive, about 2 foot long !!

They're off to the skip this year I promise.
Like I have for the last 15 years :P

Wow, it's amazing how many people either do music or computers. Well, since I despise computers, it's gotta be guitar!
I posted this before, but it's the only one I have of me with a guitar. I don't like this pic, but everyone I show it to gushes about my mug. At least, all the ladies do... ;) The guys usually say, "That's a Cort guitar. Those suck!" or "Geez, how artsy can you get?"
All I can say is blues, baby.
Blues... :cool:

Oh good, someone who can appreciate my junk !

2x RML 480Z, with network interfaces (remember Ziolg Z-net?) and disk drive.
IMI 8" 8M hard drive, about 2 foot long !!

They're off to the skip this year I promise.
Like I have for the last 15 years :P

That's so cool! Don't throw those out! Do they still work??

The guys usually say, "That's a Cort guitar. Those suck!"
Just like with photography, it ain't about the guitar... :)

Just like with photography, it ain't about the guitar... :)
You got that right. For $150, it's pretty much all the guitar I need right now. It does have this nasty habit of going out of tune, but I like to really play the thing. No thrashing or abuse, but rather heavy use. I get every ounce of music out of that thing. Just like my camera... I must say that the Elan 7N is one sturdy bastard after all I've put it through... :rolleyes:
Hey, here's an idea. I know we can't all meet up for practice or even gigs, but we could go along with the Clan O'Canon/Nikon Samurai theme and start the honorary Photography Review Band. Only difference would be that everyone could be a member, just as long as they play an instrument, sing, write, etc. No Gibson Gurus or Peavey Punks or anything. Just a group of hugely talented folks. All we need is a name.
Ideas?

All we need is a name.
Ideas?

The Shutterbugs? Aparantly I have a good singing voice, but I also do sound.

I sing (soprano, if it matters), and I could probably do keyboards if it wasn't too challenging. I don't jam well cuz I don't know enough about how to do it.

I'm also a poet and have written lyrics.


(My DH composes.)

I have also went along the lines of sound and journalism too now Axle. Touring and deadlines, etc. was not all that fun.We had a great time for awhile, but it gets weird at times and fans are sometimes horrible. Sessions are still cool though, but in this little town, there isn't much need for that.

Perhaps with the punk revival I'll get into another band, but doubt it.

This is one of my hobbies:



"Going Home"


When she died he set his house keys on the kitchen counter and shouldering his shotgun he walked out of the house. We guess that he felt he had nothing left to live for. He took the car. We don't really know where he thought he was going to, but they found the car abandoned nearly fifty miles east of town in a grocery store parking lot. The police said that there was no sign of a struggle. No indication of a fight for life. No blood. No hair, or ripped clothing. And on top of all that there were eight twenty-dollar bills in his wallet that was found carelessly tossed in the rear of the car. All the doors were locked; he had left it there.

I think that he left the damned thing there as a message. It was so like he had just gone into the store for a gallon of milk. Except for the wallet it was as if the car was parked in the driveway at home. It was the billfold that made it clear to me. My brothers and sisters do not care for my opinion on the matter and through their grief they demand that he be found. But I know the truth. I know that he does not want us to find him, much less look for him. I know where he went, though none of his other children seem to have caught on, but then how could they. His sons were all always to busy to join him when he asked, and his daughters were, by the simple fact that they were female, never asked to go hunting in the great woods to the north were he had his cabin.

I was the only one that ever wanted to be with him then and so I am the only one who knows his secret. His wallet was a note to me. "Son, he was saying, "I have gone home. Do not follow me.

It has been five years since dad left us, and still my siblings put pressure on the police to turn up evidence. My sisters still cry at the thought of their lost father, and mother. Yet still I hold on to my secret. I have told them that I believe he is alive. I have told them that he wanted to be alone. I have told them that the set up with the car was his way of saying he was fine. But I have never told them that I know where he is. I wonder how they would react.

When she died he left, and we have not heard from him since.

Interesting there Almo.

Here's a piece of my short fiction to add to the thread:

This is the ending sequence to "Cottage Retreat" It's a very fictionalized version of a trip that myself and my youth group took up to a church's member's summer home on dark and stormy night.

I slammed on the breaks while steering into the ditch. The van stopped short. I
went to open the door, but they locked themselves.
“Open the door!” I hollered, my mind was not working right anymore.
“I can’t do that Dave,” the radio said again.
“My name is not Dave,” I yelled again, and smashed the driver side window.
Diving out the window I hit the pavement and rolled. I picked myself up, now my
hands were bloodied by the glass, and my shirt was torn as well for the same reason. I
started running down the road.
“Why don’t you be a good boy and die,” my van yelled after me.
“You first,” I yelled back.
Great I had just had a yelling match with my van. Then I saw it, refuge had at last
come, even with my screwed up mind I recognized it. The cottage, I ran into the
driveway, but as I approached the house I noticed not two but three vehicles sitting in the
driveway. One belonged to the owner of the cottage, the second was from the leader who
came up earlier on that day, but the third was mine. But I had left my homicidal van in
the ditch shortly down the road. I stumbled up to the door, and lowered my fist to the
door multiple times. The door opened and the owner of the cottage was on the inside, her
look of surprise caught me as odd.
“What?” I asked.
“You’re…” she trailed off.
I stared towards the door to see who was there. Unable to see past the host I got
up from the couch I was sitting on to see. What I saw next caught me by surprise, it was
a bloodied, ragged version of myself, and there was a madness floating in the eyes. He
stared at me with an insane look, like that of a madman. Then the clock struck twelve
thirty. The image of myself shattered like glass on the doorstep. I blinked twice, and
went to go sit down again, slightly shaken.
“What was that?” I asked.
“I really don’t know,” said the host.
The weekend went by great, but it was when we were driving home that I got my
second surprise of the weekend. I saw my van sitting in the ditch, with a broken driver
side window, a dead youth, and luggage in the back. The make model, and even the
license plate matched. I shuddered as I remember the image of myself standing on the
doorstep from that first night.

Interesting there Almo.

Here's a piece of my short fiction to add to the thread:

This is the ending sequence to "Cottage Retreat" It's a very fictionalized version of a trip that myself and my youth group took up to a church's member's summer home on dark and stormy night.


Wow...Way to creep me out dude. Love the last bit!

Wow, people. Singers, writers, musicians, atheletes, astronomers, techies... I love the diversity!
As for the band, well, jeez. We won't be lacking in any department. Way cool. And may we call upon someone to be the "bandleader"? P-J perhaps?
And what's our first song? I think we could cover something photo related. How about tossing out some song titles?
"Kodachrome" by Paul Simon comes to mind right off the bat...

"Photograph" R.E.M.

"Camera" R.E.M.

"Freeze Frame" J. Geils Band

Wow...Way to creep me out dude. Love the last bit!

Thanks! I gave the whole story to a friend of mine for her 16th birthday, along with a bunch more of my writing. Well she read it at night, and couldn't sleep because it creeped her out so much.

As for songs: Duran Duran - Girls on Film

Surfing: (See avatar, havent had the chance to get any worthy of a real post)
Mountain Biking
Computer Stuff (Gaming/LAN Parties, Website, Video Editing, etc.)

I would post the children's book I've written but I'm going to try to get it published, so I'd better not.

Hey, how about this? I wrote this poem a few years ago, although it is still unfinished:


The Prince and the Maiden

He picked a book
from upon the shelf
and there he began to read.

A story of old,
of dragons and knights,
and a prince upon a steed.

The prince was noble,
gallant and bold,
with courage he led his men.

But deep in the night
by the light of the flame,
his yearnings began again.

"Oh lady, oh maiden,
oh princess of light
let me find you and save you from fear!"

But there was nary an answer
from out of the darkness;
no princess his callings did hear.

One day in the glen,
as he strode through the reeds,
he quickened to hear a voice.

"A maiden in peril!
Away in the marsh!"
With trembling his heart did rejoice.

With speed he did hasten,
his steed strong and sturdy
ascending the crest of the moor.

But upon looking down,
he saw nothing of peril --
no dragon, no lion, no boar.

There stood a fair maiden,
bedecked in white daisies.
A twinkle escaped from her eye.

A song she'd been singing,
no fear had she spoken,
she softly to him did reply.

"Come away to my castle!"
the prince then declared.
"I'll save you from fear evermore!"

But she paused in the grasses,
surrounded by blossoms'
sweet fragrance she dearly adored.

No word did she speak
as she raised her eyes upward,
beseeching the prince understand.

For he was a stranger,
she was not familiar,
yet to her he had offered his hand.

The prince turned in fury,
in rage and despair,
and prodded his horse full ahead.

With curses and crying,
on galloping stallion
away from the meadow he fled.

As the man turned the page
of the book he's been reading,
he mournfully closed up its pages.

And returned to the shelf
the story unfinished....

:cool:

Wow, people. Singers, writers, musicians, atheletes, astronomers, techies... I love the diversity!
As for the band, well, jeez. We won't be lacking in any department. Way cool. And may we call upon someone to be the "bandleader"? P-J perhaps?
And what's our first song? I think we could cover something photo related. How about tossing out some song titles?
"Kodachrome" by Paul Simon comes to mind right off the bat...

"I Turn My Camera On" Spoon

I would post the children's book I've written but I'm going to try to get it published, so I'd better not.

Hey, how about this? I wrote this poem a few years ago, although it is still unfinished:


The Prince and the Maiden

He picked a book
from upon the shelf
and there he began to read.....

....And returned to the shelf
the story unfinished....

:cool:
Nice Poem Kelly. I see no reason why this couldn't be a good children's book.

almo, it could be, I suppose ... I always figured the subject matter was too "adult" (it's based on my relationship with my husband before we were married)... but I suppose if "The Princess Bride" could flyl, this could too.

I always imagined it more of a movie.