photogrl57 Loc: Tennessee

Welcome to Day 79 :) With all the new people that have joined us recently .. I thought we would take a personal day of sorts. We all come from different backgrounds,
live in different parts of the world, but there is one thing we all have in common. Photography. I have the camera with me everywhere. Some days I will go to a specific
place to take photos, but other days I just ride around and shoot whatever grabs my attention. A lot of times I'll be sitting at a traffic light and grab the camera
real quick to capture some moment in time. Other times I'll be driving and see something and slam on the brakes, get out and get the photo. Hopefully I'm not the only
person in here that does weird things like that LOL .... So I was wondering ... What Makes You Slam on the Brakes to Get the Photo ? Here are some things that I always
brake for. I look forward to seeing what makes you slam on your brakes :)

Local Icons


I cannot pass a good landscape


I love southwest architecture


animals


of any kind


Old vehicles just call to me


Can't pass up a soccer game


silly things always make me stop

AnnMurrey Loc: Ohio

I didn't look at yesterdays or post anything either. I felt rotton by the time I got off work, came home and went to bed. I hope to be back after work today.

SUSIE Q Loc: Colton, California

Ok...here are some things that make me slam on the brakes, turn off the engine get out of the car and take a photo. I always have a camera with me. It might only be a point and shoot camera sometimes, but it is better than no camera. Besides, a multitude of sins can be covered up with Photoshop!

Just like Photogirl 57's piggy sign, my first photo really captured my interest and the lavender blooms of the Jacaranda Trees in our area, to the magnificent Victorian archecture, these are some of the things that always make me stop...

Susie Q

Sign in shop window in Door County, Wisconsin(photo taken less than a year ago-are there still hippies around?)


Jacaranda Trees in bloom, Redlands, California


Morey Mansion, Redlands, California

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

This one did! The kids on snowboards

Then I found these ....

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

I always have one or two cameras with me for exactly this reason, something worth stopping for. However I have a problem with this. I knew of an abandoned farm in the next town and recently I drove by and stopped to take a few photos however this stop opened the door to a project and now I have nearly 200 photos of this place and shall be using them for a calendar contest and also for a You Tube. In fact two You Tubes, one in B&W the other in colour. If it was just this one, it would have been fine, but I have also been collecting pics of old barns, sugar houses, life along and on the St. Lawrence River and also sunsets.

The sunsets came from a fellow whom I have met several times and lives in what is called the Lower St.Lawrence and he would go out at different points and places and do sunsets in surrounding towns and villages. Then he made a CD of these and named it Soleil du Jour which became his trademark and also the name of his store where he sold prints. Did he make money? Guess so because some years later he sold everything, he and his wife put on their pack sacks and headed for Europe bumming around doing photography during at least two years. Now, I have nothing for sale but this fellow has been an inspiration for me and I have hundreds of sunsets, and sunrises now.

Another bad habit I have acquired by bringing my own packsack is that now instead of taking driveby pics, I drveby to take pics, in other words I hunt. This makes the local gas station owner very pleased and to show his pleasure he gave me a card and after ever five coffees he gives me a free one. What a nice guy LOL.

Happy clicking

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

Photogirl Sherrie
I wasnt ever really the pull over type. BUT...since carrying my camera everywhere...I THINK I AM NOW.
I just had to pull over the other day while it was so foggy
I shot this one a while ago without even pulling over...so silly dont know if I showed you all.
Ive been wanting to pull over for something for a while...maybe I will today.

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

Beingthere at the right time

The house being mooned was a must

The sunset in Rimouski,,I stopped on the main road, put on my flashers and got out and too the pic. Luckily nobody else was that dumb to out in that January cold!

A photographic roadkill

brenner Loc: Washington

My pullovers always seem to be for critters and landscape shots.

Does pulling over in the boat count?

newbieshooter Loc: Missouri

Here are a few pictures that just seem to call my name, begging me to take a moment and pay attention.

Tractor along the road


Just another pretty face


Georgia sunset

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

p1 - I hear you AnnM. Hope this stuff leaves pronto! But not looking like it...

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

p1
SusieQ love that mansion
RR love those sunrises and the way select images of both the old and the new - you look good on that snowboard :) Love the moon shot
brenner - each one is beautiful
newbie - love rust but really wish I were on that beach - NOW!

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Love it, Nan p1

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Just about anything appeals to me. But here are some more recent. Images that evoke a feeling or tell a story also grab me.

Old buildings, rust, old paint


Architecture of any kind - spires, doors, windows


Buildings that "used to be" and likely won't be standing much longer


The unusual - metal shavings discovered in a bin behind an old mill


Musical instruments of any kind

Peanut Loc: St Augustine, Fl

OMG..you cracked me up so early in the morn. i always enjoys your shots and stories. Since Jan when i started this whole picture taking thing with this challenge i take my camera everywhere i go. i still don't know what my "thing" is to shoot yet . Hopefully that will become clear and i will have focus ...no pun intended hahaha

Peanut Loc: St Augustine, Fl

i am old hippie..does that count???hahaha i find signs very interesting too.