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07-15-2008, 10:22 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Sverige
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What Is Your Favorite Photo Of All Time?
Well I don't know if a thread like this has been tried before but I didn't see one. So I thought I'd make a new one if there has been. So Just post up your number one favorite photo that you have ever seen or taken.
There ought to be some RULES though:
Only 1 photo per post
Please try to keep the chatter down, if you want to comment on a photo, do so when you post up your own photo.
Please don't quote posts with photos to say 'that looks cool OMGZORS'
Be kind to the dial up connection; no photos over 800pixels on a side.
Please don't post up random snapshots you took because you have nothing better to post.
To start it off:
This was a rescue plane that had some obvious problems on a mountain runway in Guatemala. It was taken by Robert W. Madden. Every time I see this I just go "Wow." Imagine seeing this coming, then having your camera ready and adjusted in time and then managing to snap it at just the right moment. Remember this is 1976 so he had one shot too, not 1000 chances with his dslr. If you carry a camera with you everywhere you go in life, you may have an opportunity to catch something like this. The two guys jumping away is priceless.
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07-15-2008, 11:30 AM
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in your face space coyote
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: kcmo
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This has been attempted before. Don't be upset when it collapses like a dying star.
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07-15-2008, 11:07 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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This thread will be good for a while, but will go downhill rapidly and cause massive amounts of work for the moderators who have to delete pages of flaming/worthless posts.
Not my favorite photo of all time, but it goes with the theme in the first photo.
Split-second shot MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, Idaho -- Capt. Christopher Stricklin ejects from the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds number six aircraft less than a second before it impacted the ground at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Sept. 14. Stricklin, who was not injured, ejected after both guiding the jet away from the crowd of more than 60,000 people and ensuring he couldn't save the aircraft. This was only the second crash since the Air Force began using F-16 Falcons for its demonstration team in 1982. The ACES II ejection seat performed flawlessly.
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07-15-2008, 11:55 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: candyland
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Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper depicts eleven men sitting on a girder eating lunch, their feet dangling from the beams hundreds of feet above the New York streets below was snapped on September 29, 1932, and appeared in the New York Herald Tribune shortly after. The photo was taken on the 69th floor in the last several months of construction.
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07-16-2008, 06:44 AM
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stole my virginity
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: ohio
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Walker Evans |
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07-16-2008, 11:24 PM
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Why So Serial?!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: I R 466
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shot by p8ntcheck45
one of my favorites. |
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07-17-2008, 01:34 AM
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umad ^_^
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wgp4life55
shot by p8ntcheck45
one of my favorites.
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ben affleck? wut?
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07-17-2008, 01:40 AM
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Its Aggafagnaificent!
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Colorado *303*
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wgp4life55
shot by p8ntcheck45
one of my favorites.
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ooo man crush
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07-17-2008, 01:57 AM
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All That Is Man
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: St. Louis
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wgp4life55
shot by p8ntcheck45
one of my favorites.
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....no way...I almost don't belive it 
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07-17-2008, 02:01 AM
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Valar Morghulis
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Ilium, NY
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Protip: It's a composite photo.
Edit: or it was hanging off a string. still a cool shot, but no he didn't time a shot perfectly as the ball whizzed inches from his lens.
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07-17-2008, 02:12 AM
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TEXAS 45-35 OKLAHOMA
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: rowlett TX
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wasnt it just dangling in front of her?
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07-17-2008, 02:13 AM
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Obey Propaganda
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: San Diego, CA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by drumebskater
wasnt it just dangling in front of her?
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Haha, Jimmy is a girl! |
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07-17-2008, 02:14 AM
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Hot Bread Z!
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Portland Oregon
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lol I am going to bed 
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07-17-2008, 03:42 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Sverige
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so much for the no chatter or quoting pictures rules  |
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07-17-2008, 04:52 PM
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(yಠ,ಠ)y
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Nanaimo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by t("t)
so much for the no chatter or quoting pictures rules |
I find it cute that you think this sub forum is capable of following sensible rules.
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07-17-2008, 11:53 PM
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Valar Morghulis
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Ilium, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by t("t)
so much for the no chatter or quoting pictures rules |
what's the point of posting favorite photos if you can't discuss them?
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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
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07-18-2008, 02:09 PM
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Bangarang!
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Denver, CO
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How many of these threads do we need to finally realize that they just don't work?
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07-19-2008, 12:47 PM
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I am a thinking thing oo~
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Ohio, not Taipei - ****
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Atleast one good thing came from it... I learned about W. Eugene Smith thanks to 207.
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07-19-2008, 02:27 PM
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Bangarang!
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Denver, CO
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You need to take some photo classes, man!
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07-19-2008, 02:41 PM
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I am a thinking thing oo~
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Ohio, not Taipei - ****
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Dude, I know. I really do (for more than one reason.)
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flickr-Has, but does not condone the sharing of, noodz.
"Originally Posted by gentimmy: potz ur my hero"
"Originally Posted by AndyAllen019: By far the funniest post I have seen in quite some time[...] Well played, good sir, well played."
"Originally Posted by Brown LavaLamp: You are socially awkward penguin."
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