phranklee
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I like shooting!
Who has hobbies other than photography?
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peterm1
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I used to shoot when in my teens and 20'ss but here in Australia licensing laws became so tough that it became difficult and in any event my life went off in other directions with my career and lifestyle and so forth. I can say I enjoyed it at the time though. Mostly target shooting and in terms of pistol shooting, also shot practical pistol with an old WW2 Webley revolver - loved that darned gun even though its 38 cal round was anemic it was accurate as all get out with very little recoil.
das
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I collect spores, mold, and fungus.
peterm1
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Godfrey
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I am retired and no longer have a career work-life.
Photography, bicycling, following motorcycle road racing, reading (studying mathematics, astronomy, etc, and enjoying literature), and travel are my activities.
(Of course, I listen to music and go to movies too.)
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Photography, bicycling, following motorcycle road racing, reading (studying mathematics, astronomy, etc, and enjoying literature), and travel are my activities.
(Of course, I listen to music and go to movies too.)
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johnf04
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yossi
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I am into Chinese calligraphy, but I am a great fan of great Japanese Calligrapher - 杭迫柏樹 (Hakuju Kuiseko)
Archiver
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I feel the same way about my cameras, books, watches, comics, magazines etc. I don't have anything outstandingly valuable - no rare Charizard Pokemon cards or Action Comics #1 - but I love all my 'stuff', and would like to see it all in good, caring hands when I pass in the hopefully and presumably distant future. I have younger relatives who are good candidates, but what happens after they pass? I am the Archiver by name and by nature, after all. Just the other week, I jokingly said to my cousin that maybe if I become really famous, my various collections could go to a museum where they will be cared for in perpetuity. 😄 But I trust that is will be in a far flung future, as I hope for all our RFFers. 🙏
Mute-on
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Japanese kitchen knives and (some) woodworking tools. Started in around 2013, decades after photography. I probably have around 60+. I enjoy sharpening and cooking with a selection of them, too. Of course there are accessories … Japanese natural (sharpening) stones, knife stands, etc …. 😎
p.giannakis
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That is a very wise choice - if you are going down that money pit you really need to have some ground rules otherwise you end up broke. I have a max budget of £50 and only buy what comes up in charity shops and works well. I stay away from ebay/chrono24...
This is a work of art. From a Casio to a Vacheron Constantin, heirloom watches are such a big part of horology. Your IWC is a work of art - I suspect it carries a calibre 81 in there which in itself is outstandingly beautiful - you will have to put it under a microscope to fully appreciate it. I am sure qualified technicians will restore it if something needs restoring.
Wear it in good health and enjoy it. I too was reluctant to wear expensive watches but now I am wearing my beloved 9c gold Rotary Maximus almost every day to enjoy it.
Alpsman
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Too many interests, too little time.
only a few . . .
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Richard G
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Like Ko.Fe, photography has stuck longest, and deepest. I don't really consider it a hobby. I read and have lots of books. There are books so special that I will not re-read them, but I want to have them still and see them to remind me of where and when I did read them. Others I haven't yet read, but I see them there, remembering the original call, perhaps some never to be read but of value in company with the others. Some books I am currently reading.
Like reading, in particular, I can't consider music a hobby either. It has been with me since childhood. I limp along with the piano, learning at a glacial pace. I played second flute in the school orchestra and play one Bach piece every other year. I will be on a walk or cooking and Brahms 4 or some other piece heard the day before or twenty years ago, will be playing in my head without me realising at first. Certain works I can remember precisely when and where I first heard them. Like Richter only playing some Beethoven Sonatas or Bach preludes, I almost deliberately avoid collecting a set of most things I am interested in, as though I fear becoming a collector only. My 20 cameras are not a collection. I use them. I judge a book or CD by its cover very often. I bought a young conductor's set of Schubert symphonies: unlistenable. I don't know how the orchestra could have followed this awful conductor's direction. At the weekend I gave him a second chance, but it was even worse than I remembered. I had very quickly retreated to the 90 plus year old Herbert Blomstedt's 8 and 9 and found there such perfect tempi and dynamics. I have many versions of the one piece. I probably have five or six box sets of the Beethoven sonatas, and of the Well Tempered Clavier, and the Bach cello suites.
I gave up golf at 19. I can no longer play tennis, cannot now take the risk of skiing, much as I would love to, the only sport I am remotely good at. And cycling too is a risk for me now. Never mind. I am going to return to painting and drawing. I would like to smoke a pipe or cigar again but I know I mustn't and it is disgusting of course, but I think about it occasionally.
I walk which might in the end be more important than the rest of these things.
Like reading, in particular, I can't consider music a hobby either. It has been with me since childhood. I limp along with the piano, learning at a glacial pace. I played second flute in the school orchestra and play one Bach piece every other year. I will be on a walk or cooking and Brahms 4 or some other piece heard the day before or twenty years ago, will be playing in my head without me realising at first. Certain works I can remember precisely when and where I first heard them. Like Richter only playing some Beethoven Sonatas or Bach preludes, I almost deliberately avoid collecting a set of most things I am interested in, as though I fear becoming a collector only. My 20 cameras are not a collection. I use them. I judge a book or CD by its cover very often. I bought a young conductor's set of Schubert symphonies: unlistenable. I don't know how the orchestra could have followed this awful conductor's direction. At the weekend I gave him a second chance, but it was even worse than I remembered. I had very quickly retreated to the 90 plus year old Herbert Blomstedt's 8 and 9 and found there such perfect tempi and dynamics. I have many versions of the one piece. I probably have five or six box sets of the Beethoven sonatas, and of the Well Tempered Clavier, and the Bach cello suites.
I gave up golf at 19. I can no longer play tennis, cannot now take the risk of skiing, much as I would love to, the only sport I am remotely good at. And cycling too is a risk for me now. Never mind. I am going to return to painting and drawing. I would like to smoke a pipe or cigar again but I know I mustn't and it is disgusting of course, but I think about it occasionally.
I walk which might in the end be more important than the rest of these things.
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peterm1
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Man the interior of that watch is certainly something to behold and wonder at. So nice. 🙂
peterm1
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I actually did try Chinese calligraphy for some months but the person teaching it moved to a new location and I let it go - I did not follow up. The same small "school" taught the playing of Chinese musical instruments as well. I caught this photo below of a young music student through a translucent window of the facility where the training was carried out, with her instrument on her back awaiting class.
Beyond a Dark Window by Life in Shadows, on Flickr
Dogman
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I'm a reformed pipe smoker. There was the hobby of collecting pipes involved so it was something of a double hobby. Then one day I decided to quit smoking and I took my collection of nice pipes and accoutrements to the dumpster. On reflection, that was a dumb thing to have done--some of them were expensive pieces. But it was the only way I could stop smoking them.
I think one of the original reasons I switched to Canon from Nikon because all my old F2 bodies smelled like the pipe tobacco I used to smoke. I sometimes think about smoking a pipe again too. It was relaxing and enjoyable. But people complained and it's not good for me so....
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Freakscene
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The last photo is the Rifugio Tuckett e Sella, a mountain hut located in the Brenta Dolomites in Trentino, Italy. I walked up there in the 1990s.
I also like to walk out in nature, and I grow vegetables in my garden.
Freakscene
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In the Court of the Crimson King! Awesome.For me the big two outside of photography and collecting and enjoying film rangefinder cameras are motorcycle touring and scootering. Actually, I'm off to a scooter rally tomorrow in Portrush, Northern Ireland.
Also big is general woodworking and in particular wood carving.
Celtic Flower Thing by Philip McAllister, on Flickr
21st Century Schizoid Man by Philip McAllister, on Flickr
Oak Carving in Lime by Philip McAllister, on Flickr
JoeV
Thin Air, Bright Sun
Interactive Typewriter Exhibit at the ABQ Museum by Joe Van Cleave, on FlickrI collect typewriters! Currently I’m in the low 50s. Unlike some collectors who focus on early models that are mainly display items, my interest is in functional machines for typing. The oldest one in my collection is a 1922 Remington Portable #2, while the newest is a 2025 Nakajima electronic daisywheel model.
This image is a recent “Type-In” we had at the Albuquerque Museum, a dozen machines, all of them manuals except the first one, a blue 1960 Smith-Corona Electric, which was the first portable electric model to hit the market.
We had hundreds of people stop and try out the machines, many of them reporting that now they wanted a typewriter of their own.
Richard G
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Thanks for joining me in this thought. I’ve kept my one lovely Dunhill pipe on a shelf. I’ve sucked on it some evening in the last ten years, unlit. My youngest brother at 3 or 4 insisted on having one of my father’s pipes in his mouth, and not some old one either, but one of the good ones in current use, particularly the Falcon.
Much to the detriment of my photography, I rediscovered cycling in September 2017, it really took off when I bought my first proper road bike since high school in December 2020, and I've been clocking up about 10,000 km a year ever since. I just love being able to escape the city into nature under my own power, see things and go places that wouldn't necessarily be accessible by public transport or car, and get some good exercise while I'm at it. I've been attempting to rekindle my photography in recent months, but haven't been very successful yet.
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