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It’s clear from the recent camera thread, and various Afterworders I know on Facebook, that many of us enjoy a bit of photography, so let’s see some of your favourite shots. I’m really a point-and-clicker, but I can’t ask you to show me yours without showing you mine so here’s one I took at the end of June when I was in the right place at the right time.

It’s Hans Haacke’s statue Gift Horse which currently occupies the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. I couldn’t help but be struck by the way the cloud formation echoes the form of the horse. The Light’s daughter said it looked like the horse’s spirit was leaving its body, but I prefer to think that it looks more like it is cantering down to be reunited with it.

Your turn.

http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/rr107/Gatz_photos/Birthday%20034_1.jpg

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  35. OK, quiet afternoon, so I’ll bite – if I can get the sodding link to work. If not, could it be my Mac 10.6.8/Safari 5.1.10 browser is no longer compatible with Photobucket? Advice welcome. I’ll try …………….

    A ‘conceptual’ test shot (far from finished) inspired by The Afterwords very own Salwarpe from his much missed series of artworks (was it ‘Work In Progress” ?).

    http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/attackdog2/media/Iron%20Test%203%20Final.lores_zpsatwgcwqh.jpg.html” target=”_blank”>

    • I don’t think that’s why – my browser is no longer compatible and Photobucket clearly tells me so on their front page. Since TinyPic doesn’t work on this site I managed to get Imgur to work a few times, but now it also refuses to upload my photos, so that’s probably the browser’s fault as well.
      And please don’t advise me to change my browser – trust me, I’ve tried, but my computer just won’t do it. I tried to buy a new computer a year ago, ran into some annoying problems and aborted the whole project eventually, after losing my patience…I’m slowly feeling ready to try again, perhaps. Nothing saps all energy and joy from me like a tech-rage, and computers have an uncanny knack for turning me into a swearing, teeth-gnashing, fist-hammering monster. My current mouse is the latest victim of such a violent attack, thus opening multiple unecessary windows every time I left-click anything these days. 🙁

      • Hooray! Posting that really reminded me that I had to do something about this, as it was getting more and more difficult each week to get things to work with my obsolete browser…so I did something I’ve been putting off for a while; removing some stuff on my computer that was a probable cause for my difficulties in uploading a new browser.
        Then I tried – again – to upload Firefox, and unlike the previous try it didn’t fail mid-through this time, I got my new and up-to-date browser, and hey-presto! imgur kindly wants to upload photos from my computer again.
        So, testing, one-two:

        View post on imgur.com

        Just to see if I still know how to do it; that should be a photo of Swedish electro pop star Jenny Lewis and her cool sister on the guitar, a rather blurred photo but a cool pose.
        Taken last year at Stockholm Music & Arts festival – only two days until this year’s festival kicks off!

    • @attackdog – one of the Macs I use to post here is running the same OS and browser as you, and is fine.

      It sounds like you might have a problem with Safari’s ‘Cache’, or History, or the cookies that Photobucket puts on your mac.

      Try these; Safari/Empty Cache for the first; History/Clear History for the second, and Safari/Preferences/Privacy/Cookies & other website data/Details for the third – look for Photobucket cookies, delete them, and then Quit Safari and restart the mac. You will have to reenter any Photobucket passwords when you next visit their site.

      I find that some websites will deprecate (give out of date messages to) Safari 5. YouTube does, also Flickr, but you can click through usually and carry on.

      Photobucket does behave oddly at times, even when I use up to date software to access it. If I add to my Library, it often won’t display the photo until my next visit.

      If the Safari advice above doesn’t work – apologies if you’ve tried them already – it might be another Cache issue on the Mac. it would be worth clearing the other caches, using a utility like OnyX or Applejack.

  43. Off topic, but it’s an unexpected bonus of my Google Chromecast that, when idle, it displays an amazing selection of photographs and some art in full tv size. I only use it for a couple of things as a video/ music player (it’s a lot more limited here than in the U.S.) so I’m surprised they don’t make a bigger deal of the hi def photo gallery as a selling point*
    (*maybe all players do similar – I wouldn’t know as I only have this one.
    I don’t have shares in Google btw)

  47. http://i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv268/19mjh62/Picture%20042.jpg

    This isn’t the best photo ever taken, but it is one that resonates in my life. It was taken in September 2003 when Heather and I were doing the Tour de Mont Blanc. We were on the Italian side between Courmayeur and the Swiss border. We’d set out from the Bertone hut in thick mist (having endured a terrible night’s sleep due to a snoring German!) and we’d just popped out of the mist onto a summit with spectacular views of Mont Blanc and the Dent du Geant and les Grandes Jorasses. We were all alone for over half an hour and it was fantastic.

  51. Lots of talent out there in Afterwordland. Thanks for all your pics. Here’s another of mine which I hope demonstrates that not having a clue what you’re doing can add to the effect. This is Charles Bridge in Prague on a misty might, though not as misty as it looks here. My cheap camera couldn’t cope with the low light, but I like the blurred effect, and the two figures walking away turn the snap into a story. I have always thought that this one would make a good book jacket.

    http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/rr107/Gatz_photos/PC070075.jpg

    And another from Rome, which shows that even monks need to go on holiday.

    http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/rr107/Gatz_photos/Monks%20at%20the%20Colosseum.jpg

    • So the more of your work I see (here and your site), the more I draw a straight line between my Spirograph fixation as a child, to my own adult geometric addiction (see above), and through a very wide gulf to this sort of hugely technical structured stuff, and why it appeals so much to an OCD second-hand pattern-peddler like me.

      That’s supposed to be a compliment by the way. The middle bit anyway. Love your work.

      • Most kind of you Harold.
        I’ve enjoyed this thread immensely. Some marvellous photographs.
        I should take some photos of stuff other than my work but I get out and about so very rarely hence the photographs of paintings.

  63. I went to an observatory at Charleville, in outback QLD, and they had a telescope you could look at the sun through.
    http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g401/mikethep/IMG_7078crop_zpstm0j1owd.jpg
    This is the sun. You can see a solar flare at about 10 o’clock – the astronomeuse was really excited, because it’s very rare to see one actually happening, apparently. I took the photo through the telescope with my iPhone, and was amazed at how it came out.
    This is the uncropped original.
    http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g401/mikethep/IMG_7078_zps2jfgbmkv.jpg

  64. This is a response to Harold ( but try as I may the iPad won’t let me indent at the mo’)
    Thanks for that – the light really is incredible – I’d have taken a punt on Greece before you put me right – certainly the kind of light that is virtually unheard of here in South Wales! Wonderful colour tones, too.
    Very nice, cheers.

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