Your most _haunting_ photo

[RML]

What is the most haunting photo you ever took? With haunting I'd mean an image that tickles your horror bone, one that might follow you in your dreams, one that is so surreal you feel completely off-balance, one that left you feel violated mentally. 🙂

For me the shot that comes closest is my _Baby showroom_ shot. Admittedly not an rf shot but I want to see something different than the same ol' street scenes and this was the best I could come up with. 😛 Let me see yours....

 

[GeneW]

I was subjected to two days of psychological testing in this barren room, sitting at the little table in the foreground. I still get the horrors thinking about it. I emerged from the testing feeling less than human... The photo probably doesn't convey Kafkaesque nature of the room. It was one of those "you had to be there to understand" situations. The building was in an industrial park and there was no place to go even for a coffee...

I did get questioned about why I took a photo. I just replied, "I'm a photographer; this is what I do"

Bessa R2, CV 35/1.7 Ultron, Tri-X

Gene

 

[lushd]

Not quite as scary but I found myself in gothic mood a few weeks ago while walking around the Cathedral 😱

Camera: Zorki 1

 

[FrankS]

Gene, I thought you'd post your transmigration photo here. The barren room is pretty scary. No windows, right? Did you pass the test? 🙂

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Came across some Roses washed ashore on a local beach, late winter. There had been some drownings the prior year. It was so cold the shutter malfunctioned, and produced this:

 

[Dracotype]

A little Poe-esque Gothic atmosphere.

This was the oldest Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, on a beautiful sunny day. But, with infrared film...

Drew

 

[GeneW]

Gene, I thought you'd post your transmigration photo here. The barren room is pretty scary.

I forgot about that one. Yes, it's very strange:

The one and only time the shutter did something weird. I think it was sent as a warning that this is what happens if you go into management 🙂

Gene

 

[Meleica]

my niece...sad and haunting for such a happy girl

Dan

 

[back alley]

this one seems to do it for some folks

 

[AsahiPentax]

Here's a shot of my brother I took a couple years ago with my *ist (before I knew what a rangefinder was 😛 )

 

[raid]

No clue if this is "haunting" ...but I like it. It was taken through the window of Preservation Hall in New Orleans many years
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3646828

 

[raid]

There are "ghosts" here .... boooooooooooooooh! Again, the photo was taken in the French Quarter of New Orleans. While the previous shot was an exercise of grain (Scotch 1000 E6 film), this one is on Fujichrome 50.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3646494

 

[raid]

This one is haunting to me ... his look tells a story. He passed away since this photo in New Orleans. An excellent Harmonica player and Blues singer in the streets.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3646473

 

[XAos]

I wouldn't agree with your definition of haunting, but this is the one I'd call the most haunting photograph I have. This is a digicam shot (before I got into film). A digicam stuck up to the eyepiece of my binoculars even. I cropped it down closer but left the vignetting (more like a mask at this extreme) because I think it adds to the mood. It's my brother in law and some of his kids on the beach. I left early, he was killed in a car wreck while they were still down there just a few days later. Not just that it's one of the last pictures, but that it's in the context, the lack of visible faces, the through the binoculars really gives it an 'outsider looking in' sort of feeling.

 

[nwcanonman]

Not an RF shot, but this one always says "haunting" to me.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1415183

 

[dadsm3]

The haunting thing about this is that someone would deface a 150 year-old tombstone....

 

[dadsm3]

XAos, that's very sad. What a loss to those beautiful kids. Belated condolences....life is such a struggle sometimes.
Mike

 

[RayPA]

Here's mine. Not an RFand about 20 yrs. old.



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[dadsm3]

That's the spookiest so far.....well done.

 

[XAos]

Once again NARF, but at least it's film. Tri-X in Diafine. I'm wanting to try some B&W RF stuff the next time we get one of these to burn.