These are a few of my favourite things.

[Tom Dinning]

Let me make it quiet clear.
I hate this spell check that corrects my -our- to -or-' as in favorite. See! It did it again.

Now, to business.

Do you have places or things you constantly go back to and re-photograph?
I sure do.
Here's one. A lonely mangrove in Darwin Harbour. Bloody hell! How did that get through without correction?
I reckon I have a hundred shots of it scattered through the hard drives.

 

[Brian Moore]

A lonely tree is an appealing subject to me also. This particular image is a particularly nice one, Tom. I like the massive foreground, which accentuated the tree's isolation.

I will often take a shot under the pier looking toward the sea where the columns that support the pier forma kind of tunnel with a small light at the end. Here's one (shot with the Canon F1 and Kodak Tri-X and processed in Rodinal):



I realize I post this at my own peril; the dreaded Horizon Police will be after me in short order I do believe.

 

[Pete Askew]

You're OK Brian, they are involved in special operations up in Edinburgh at the moment.

Sorry Tom I'll come back with something more sensible soon. However, I flitted in to restore the 'u'.

 

[Brian Moore]

You're OK Brian, they are involved in special operations up in Edinburgh at the moment.

Let's hope they get it straightened out, Pete.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Wonderful shot, Tom. No wonder you have returned there often. All those spikes in the ground...an almost alien landscape. They look like they are advancing towards the tree, crowding round it with an almost religious reverence.

I'm not on my computer at the moment, but will later upload something from a place I photograph often.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Maybe we all have a place. I do, in fact I am greedy I have two places. A fisherman came up to me on the quay not so long ago he had looked at my flickr site , said '' hey you like them there bl**dy chains boy, what's that there then, all about' I had no answer just smiled.
He was the same guy when I got given a bag full of herrings said, ''What e want those for, may as well get some butter mix in some of your shaven whiskers in and eat that'' I did answer him that time and said I liked eating herring bones.

Anyway here are those chains.

STILL LIFE by Julian de Courcy, on Flickr

 

[Davie Hudson]

I go back here A LOT .... I now even have it tattooed on my chest

 

[Tom Dinning]

Each of those places seem worth the effort of returning.
But tattooing it on ones chest? Isn't that a bit extreme? What do you do about erosion, Davie?

 

[Brian Moore]

But tattooing it on ones chest? Isn't that a bit extreme? What do you do about erosion, Davie?

It's Scotland,...therefore every bit a worthwhile tattoo.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

This is a place I find myself returning to fairly regularly: Cramond village and beach, Edinburgh.

Cramond 1sq by RobMacKillop, on Flickr​

More from Cramond here: https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=77405756@N08&q=cramond

 

[Beth Carter]

probably the 3 mile stretch on rt 9 near where i work.

 

[Davie Hudson]

Each of those places seem worth the effort of returning.
But tattooing it on ones chest? Isn't that a bit extreme? What do you do about erosion, Davie?

it's more of a feeling than a place, it' hard to describe unless a person has been there but i gravitate there as often as i can. The tattoo hurt like hell mind you, not as badly as the owl on the back of my head but still

 

[Tom Dinning]

This is a place I find myself returning to fairly regularly: Cramond village and beach, Edinburgh.

Cramond 1sq by RobMacKillop, on Flickr​

More from Cramond here: https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=77405756@N08&q=cramond

Now that's a photo worth spending some time with, Rob.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Be my guest. Get a comfy chair, a cup of your favourite brew, and why not invite the neighbours around for a barbie? It could become an annual event

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

As Julian I have at least two and as Tom, I am a lazy photographer, so here is my favourite place which I return to ever so often, my bedroom view.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

That bedroom view beats mine by a long country mile!