On The Walls

[cz23]

Well, if I ever produce a pic good enough to put on a wall, I'd be too shocked to decide what to do with it.

When it comes to your home, don't ask if it's good enough, but rather if it's meaningful to you. I bet you've got plenty of those.

John

 

[seany65]

When it comes to your home, don't ask if it's good enough, but rather if it's meaningful to you. I bet you've got plenty of those.

John

Actually, no, I've not. Even with all the years I've been interested in photography, and all the cameras I've owned, I've taken almost no pics. Partly laziness, partly being too much of a 'chicken' to trust that any pic I took wouldn't be too bad to look at, partly cost - had other things to pay for eg. I've got too many books for my shelf space, record collecting (which i don't do now as I've no record player), partly 'cos I've got no transport other than busses and feet, (which can limit choices if the weather doesn't look too promising), and partly 'cos I ain't got much of a "photographer's eye". I see so many pics here that I would never have taken as I wouldn't have 'seen' them.

 

[Richard G]

Actually, no, I've not. Even with all the years I've been interested in photography, and all the cameras I've owned, I've taken almost no pics. Partly laziness, partly being too much of a 'chicken' to trust that any pic I took wouldn't be too bad to look at, partly cost - had other things to pay for eg. I've got too many books for my shelf space, record collecting (which i don't do now as I've no record player), partly 'cos I've got no transport other than busses and feet, (which can limit choices if the weather doesn't look too promising), and partly 'cos I ain't got much of a "photographer's eye". I see so many pics here that I would never have taken as I wouldn't have 'seen' them.

I'm with John. If you can write this you can see a good photo. Those limitations you mention are actually advantages to getting some good photographs.

 

[Photog9000]

Before moving into my current abode, I had images of my own hanging in several areas around the house. Photos of a jazz festival that I covered for 14 years &prints of my family were intermixed with prints by Ansel Adams and HCB. In my current home, I only have a couple of prints up as we try to get the interior painted. BUT I continue to print images for the future for my heirs to do something with.

 

[lawrence]

I continue to print images for the future for my heirs to do something with.

Hopefully it will be the kind of thing you'd like them to do 🙄

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

Most of my pictures are of my wife standing in front of a vacation memory, or of friends. All photos go in the photo box, or given to the friend who is the subject.
Everything else is what I call "a rusty nail".
We rummage thru the photo box on occasion, the rusty nail pics usually get the comment "what's this?"
I like bare walls. My wife hangs paintings on them.

 

[JHutchins]

I don't actually have walls at home so there are no photos there, but I do have a few of my own photos hanging in my office and don't feel there's any special vanity in that -- I took them because what I saw at the time meant something to me and I still see that in the photos so even if no one else has any interest in them, they speak to me. In general, I'm probably the biggest fan of my own photos for that reason and spend more time looking at my photos than other people do because they do speak to me. If they speak to no one else then they're clearly failures as photos and I'm a terrible photographer but even if that's true that doesn't erase their value to me.