Who has hobbies other than photography?
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ChrisPlatt
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On Long Island fishing was a popular hobby. I grew up fishing for flounder in spring and fluke in summer on Great South Bay.
Later I developed a preference for freshwater catch-and-release fishing in the New York City water supply reservoirs Upstate.
Marriage ended my fishing weekends, but now in retirement I have no real excuse not to go. I still have most of my tackle... 😉
Chris
Later I developed a preference for freshwater catch-and-release fishing in the New York City water supply reservoirs Upstate.
Marriage ended my fishing weekends, but now in retirement I have no real excuse not to go. I still have most of my tackle... 😉
Chris
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wlewisiii
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I have a small coin collection that has started taking up a bit more of my time. I have a fondness for Crown/Dollar sized silver coins. These are two of my most recent acquisitions:
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Collecting coins was a big thing when I was in high school. I had a big collection of bank notes from the early 1900s and coins going back to the mid-1800s. I gave most of them to my niece who collects them. I kept a few but most went missing when my kids were growing up. Now I just have a few.
JeffS7444
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Long ago, I used to collect USA proof and uncirculated sets each year, but they all started looking pretty much the same to me. But I have held onto a few non-USA pieces which I find visually striking.
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Well let’s see, photography started as a hobby when I was 7 years old then when I was in college it became a career. For the next 55 years photography was both a career and a hobby and now I’m back to hobby.
I majored in college in the sciences and have a small collection of 1800’s scientific instruments. I sold off some due to space but still have some very nice ones.
In the 60’s when very few people collected photographs, I started buying images by famous photographers. I have a nice. Collection of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Lewis Hine, Edward Curtis and others original prints. It’s not a large collection but are some of their classic images.
Later I started collecting tintypes, Ambrotypes and Daguerreotypes. I’ve acquired a couple of rather famous images by Mathew Brady of George Custer and a Charles Melton Bell of Sitting Bull and Spotted Tail (Sioux Chiefs). I also have a beautiful collection of various subjects by unknown photographers.
I collected fountain pens and enjoyed using them but stopped collecting a few years ago. I also have a few watches but haven’t bought one in a while.
As a hobby and part of my business I learned to fly. My clients were spread out from near DC to Charleston SC and St Augustine FL. Commercial flight was inconvenient but Piloting myself on my own schedule (and the weathers) was the answer. I loved flying and would fly for personal enjoyment as well as business.
I grew up in a family of competitive marksmen. My dad shot trap and my brother shot silhouette (steel turkeys, chickens, ducks and rams). I took up action pistol which is like an arcade game shooting at targets that spin, swing and flip. It a young man’s game so I’m no longer shooting it. Now I’ve resorted to collecting older revolvers and shooting targets that don’t move.
I majored in college in the sciences and have a small collection of 1800’s scientific instruments. I sold off some due to space but still have some very nice ones.
In the 60’s when very few people collected photographs, I started buying images by famous photographers. I have a nice. Collection of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Lewis Hine, Edward Curtis and others original prints. It’s not a large collection but are some of their classic images.
Later I started collecting tintypes, Ambrotypes and Daguerreotypes. I’ve acquired a couple of rather famous images by Mathew Brady of George Custer and a Charles Melton Bell of Sitting Bull and Spotted Tail (Sioux Chiefs). I also have a beautiful collection of various subjects by unknown photographers.
I collected fountain pens and enjoyed using them but stopped collecting a few years ago. I also have a few watches but haven’t bought one in a while.
As a hobby and part of my business I learned to fly. My clients were spread out from near DC to Charleston SC and St Augustine FL. Commercial flight was inconvenient but Piloting myself on my own schedule (and the weathers) was the answer. I loved flying and would fly for personal enjoyment as well as business.
I grew up in a family of competitive marksmen. My dad shot trap and my brother shot silhouette (steel turkeys, chickens, ducks and rams). I took up action pistol which is like an arcade game shooting at targets that spin, swing and flip. It a young man’s game so I’m no longer shooting it. Now I’ve resorted to collecting older revolvers and shooting targets that don’t move.
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Freshwater tropical fishkeeping,
...and playing about with old computers with Linux.
...and playing about with old computers with Linux.
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I sold off the last of my model railroading stuff a number of years ago, figuring that I had been too unfocused about what I wanted to do, and that, should the urge strike again, I could just start anew. And lately I've been pondering something different:
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Maybe it's just what I need: A bite-sized project with a limited number of variables?
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Thank you.
It's only low tech method planted aquarium, so no CO₂ injection. It's 300 litre aquarium, the substrate is Tropica soil, gravel and river sand. The substrate is four inches deep.
Daily fertiliser dosing via a dosing pump of easy-life ProFito and Ferro.
Lighting is two Fluval AquaSkys LED lights for two photoperiods of 4 hours morning and evening per day.
Joao
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Everything related to making images: drawing, etching, painting, sketching using whatever comes at hand.
and recently giving my first steps in linocut
and recently giving my first steps in linocut
chuckroast
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Excuse me, but pens are not a "hobby". Their acquisition and use rapidly becomes a disease. DAMHIKT
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My theory is that it is Sneaky doing the actual watch repairs.
JeffS7444
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My success rate with Craigslist items for sale is low, but not quite nil: This evening, I scored a Z scale train set, complete in it's original box for what seemed like a great price. As the set is decades old, and the locomotive appears never to have been serviced, I plan on a full CLA plus upgrade to current-spec coreless motor, which requires some modifications.
bulevardi
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I love to play guitar and record melodies, layer them with other instruments into 'songs'. And then create cover artwork with my photography skills and put it online.
It's never been professional though, I'm not a real musician or playing live, but I just like doing that.
Perhaps I have some sort of imposter syndrome or just want to stay under the radar but I never talk about it with family/colleagues as I don't like to brag, but I just post it online for strangers to listen. Don't ask why.
It's never been professional though, I'm not a real musician or playing live, but I just like doing that.
Perhaps I have some sort of imposter syndrome or just want to stay under the radar but I never talk about it with family/colleagues as I don't like to brag, but I just post it online for strangers to listen. Don't ask why.
Richard G
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This page reminded me of two correctives to my early collecting instinct. My mother persuaded me that I didn't need at all to be filling drawers with the cardboard boxes all my Corgi cars came in.... I still have an MGB GT with whizz wheels, and rubber tired E-Type Jag wth a removable exhaust underneath, and of course opening doors, including the unusual rear luggage access door, and a Porsche Carrera racing car. The latter two were given me by my father when I was 9. When I was 12 he gave me a Lamborghini Miura, yellow, for the Scalextric track. The rest of my cars were scattered by younger brothers. Lego the same. I had (have) some coins but never got serious.
Hobbies were summed up here succinctly by my son, now an army lieutenant, who still paints very expertly model soldiers and tanks and armoured vehicles and Warhammer. Asked by his older sister, years ago, what are you hobbies? I don't have any. You must have a hobby. Look! My hobby is just playing, OK?
Hobbies were summed up here succinctly by my son, now an army lieutenant, who still paints very expertly model soldiers and tanks and armoured vehicles and Warhammer. Asked by his older sister, years ago, what are you hobbies? I don't have any. You must have a hobby. Look! My hobby is just playing, OK?
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