Nice pics!
I like taking piccys but it’s always liberating to just enjoy the experience. But being honest, I never go back to look through old piccys. Basically just taking them for the hell of it.
Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎉🍾🍻🎇🎆 Wednesday, 1 January, 2024
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I have a bunch of lame pics from Geelong and my garden. I often forget to take photos when I’m out. Too busy looking with my eyes.
Enjoy. 🙂
On my way to Spencer street went thru Melbourne Central and saw the Omega 13 device. Looked awesome.
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Geelong pelican. Big.
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sea monster
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an exciting museum. ( truly, this was probably interesting but I wasn’t going to find out for $12. I grew up among farms and have seen factories too. So nothing new.
but what I noticed about Geelong which really *is great * is that it’s very wheel chair friendly and I saw many disabled people enjoying a holiday .
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night time flowers
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happy snail light
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Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Is that a Bella Donna? My mum was a nurse, and once told me about one of her patients who went blind from eating it for ‘entertainment’. Luckily for them the blindness wore off after a few days.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 week ago
4 o’clock flower?
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Ah, thanks. There are quite a few trumpet-flowered plants that look similar. Have just been down a very interesting google wormhole and now realise how many poisonous plants there were in our garden growing up, lol.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 week ago
True, mum had heaps of poisonous plants in the garden when I was a wee one, but only gave a shit enough to remove them when we got her a little dog
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
yes 🙂
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 week ago
“Too busy looking with my eyes”
I’m the same. I try to be present in the moment, where a lot of people live their lives through a viewfinder. Nice pictures. It’s been years since I’ve been to that part of the world.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I find sometimes having the camera enhances the moment. It helps me to focus on details and look at things from different angles, thinking about how/if something can make a good photo. I also like to put photos together into sets, so I will be thinking about things like how the detail on different old building compares, or finding all of the individual flowers in a garden as well as looking at the overall view. Then when I get back home and go through all the pictures to put together an album for the day it both helps to solidify all the memories and gives me a nice reminder to look back on.
I think the problem is that a lot of people take a photo instead of really looking, just as a way of ticking off a box of “I went here”. Or they are just focussing on taking pictures of themselves, and wherever they are is just a backdrop.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I admit I do try to make nice compositions when I take photos.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
lol, it was hard to explain. I’m looking to have an experience, not looking to take great shots.
And most of what I see is so common and banal anyway taking a pic for other people to see rarely crosses my mind.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Second this. The experience is all imo. Photos can be used to share the moment, but aren’t in any way a substitute for it.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 week ago
At least photos on a phone are less likely to be used to torture others later - the old slides and videos could be a nightmare for friends and family. For some reason people are generally incapable of culling their collection and only showing the good slides, and most people’s video skills are not that great.
I was at Port Arthur many years ago watching a couple with their video camera. The entire trip was just her videoing him standing in front of different buildings. I imaging their narration when they got home was along the lines of “this is Harold standing in front of an old house, and this is Harold in front of an old building. Was that the Model Prison Harold? I don’t know, it had some sort of name. I don’t know why they called it that, it doesn’t look like a model. There were signs up but I didn’t have time to read anything because I had to stand there with the video camera while Harold stood in front of the building”. The family probably still have nightmares.