Favorite subject to photograph?

What's your favorite thing to photograph? Everyone has something they like more than anything else. I suppose some people just do everything, but I'm just curious if you have a favorite? Maybe not even something you get to photograph often, but something you really enjoy photographing when you have a chance.

I like to photograph old ruins. Unfortunately I live in the United States and those aren't very common here. There are a few super old structures, but not a lot. I've been through Europe and southeast Asia, though, and enjoyed visiting things like stone circles or old temples and things like that. It's a subject I love, but don't get to see often. I wish I had more money so I could travel more and see more of them.

My favorites? People and animals, in a moment which cannot be reproduced.

Landscapes, buildings, monuments (specially the "famous" of them) for me are not so interesting to photograph
cause in most cases it´s easy to do the same shot the next day, the next week, the next year too and mostly
has been done already by thousands before me and will be done after me.

Street Photography and Nature Photography for me.

This always changes for me. Right now I'm really interested in landscapes and macro. A couple months ago, it was portraits and street photography. I keep changing it up to keep things new and interesting.

Ulrich Brodde wrote: My favorites? People and animals, in a moment which cannot be reproduced.

Landscapes, buildings, monuments (specially the "famous" of them) for me are not so interesting to photograph
cause in most cases it´s easy to do the same shot the next day, the next week, the next year too and mostly
has been done already by thousands before me and will be done after me.

Capturing things in the moment is my weakness, I admire people that can do that. And I've seen your work around the boards and it's good

While I shoot mostly scapes and nature. I like to shoot pretty much everything. As far as ruins it depends on what part of the country you are in. I like old ghost towns and such too. Not so many here in the east as there were in Arizona though, or they are now private land, and have been fenced off. Unless you are in a good area for urban exploration, in which case then you have to bend the rules a little to get good captures.

Things I can see.

1. Nature
2. Landscapes
3. Cityscapes

I shoot weddings and portraits, so this will be my answer. Before when I have more time I did enjoy shooting other stuff, but I just don't have time these days.

Joves wrote: While I shoot mostly scapes and nature. I like to shoot pretty much everything. As far as ruins it depends on what part of the country you are in. I like old ghost towns and such too. Not so many here in the east as there were in Arizona though, or they are now private land, and have been fenced off. Unless you are in a good area for urban exploration, in which case then you have to bend the rules a little to get good captures.

Yes, I LOVE ghost towns. There are quite a few in California and Nevada that I've been to. Really cool. Even those are just a couple hundreds years old at most, though. I love things that are many hundreds if not thousands of years old. That's hard to find here.

Stealthy Ninja wrote: Things I can see.

I'm with you on this. Except for people...most of the time.

StephanieW wrote:

Joves wrote: While I shoot mostly scapes and nature. I like to shoot pretty much everything. As far as ruins it depends on what part of the country you are in. I like old ghost towns and such too. Not so many here in the east as there were in Arizona though, or they are now private land, and have been fenced off. Unless you are in a good area for urban exploration, in which case then you have to bend the rules a little to get good captures.

Yes, I LOVE ghost towns. There are quite a few in California and Nevada that I've been to. Really cool. Even those are just a couple hundreds years old at most, though. I love things that are many hundreds if not thousands of years old. That's hard to find here.

Yeah those are few and far between unless you hump around the back country a lot. At the family ranch in Az we have a canyon in the backyard, that has petraglyphs from when the Havasupai were on the move from the southern part of the state. I have yet to find any ruins in it. Another canyon I go to has some, but they are hard to find, and I have not been to some for many years. If you head over to the Sedona area sometime there are several sites with ruins, and then there is Chaco Canyon in NM.

Scotty wrote:

Stealthy Ninja wrote: Things I can see.

I'm with you on this. Except for people...most of the time.

small world, same with me!

I'll go with "things I can see that capture my interest" for $100, Alex.

I don't know where you live but you're missing the boat in this country. Here old ruins are called old homesteads. There are lot's of them all across the country. The South West has old Navajo cliff dwellings to shoot.

I like shooting old homesteads and ghost towns but number one is action photo's of bird dogs and pointing photo's of them.