wide2tele Loc: Australia

What subjects do you shoot?
Is it anything and everything or do you have select subjects?

Moving forward I intend scenic photography to be a major part of my photography.
I have...yes...this is correct...a total of TWO scenic pics I have taken in close to the last couple of decades!
I am greatly looking forward to making landscape/scenic photography my priority subject.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Anything and everything. I don't have a camera/lens for birds, another for cars, and another for people.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

I usually have a goal to shot a specific subject when I remove the camera from the backpack. Sometimes it gets removed because something caught my eye others because I have a plan. I guess you can say I shoot anything that catches my eye and wildlife and flowers. Lol

avflinsch Loc: Hamilton, New Jersey

just about everything, my favorites are frogs, dragonflies, bees and other things with stings.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I prefer mostly scenics, plus general memoirs of trips.
I don't do birds or flowers, except on a rare occasion.
Animals sometimes.
I don't shoot for the sake of shooting either.
I "cull" before I shoot.
My 18-200 lives on my camera.

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

Wildlife.

Jerry G Loc: Waterford, Michigan and Florida

Most things, I shy away from portraits.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

My efforts usually include landscapes, structures, nature (flowers primarily), and people (mostly friends and family). I so envy those who produce good street photography of life and people in our cities and countryside. I wish I had the vision to recognize those opportunities and the courage to capture them.

Stan

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

Currently mostly wildlife/nature because in my free time I’m usually kayaking or hiking. But I really like shooting a lot of different things, scenic/landscape, architecture, street, etc.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Documentation
Family stuff
Pets
Experiments

Anything and Everything? No. I do not shoot subjects that don't interest me.

In my youth I did a lot of events but in my old age I don't get out as much. I've gone from >25,000 shots/year to maybe ~2500. I expect a small bump up in usage this year because of two family weddings scheduled.

There's nothing like a family wedding to increase GAS pressure while simultaneously decreasing disposable income.

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Back in another lifetime I realized that for most static subjects and scenes a whole world of photographers were executing rather minor tweaks on what is essentially a canonical body of “approved” imagery.

Then there’s sports and similar action, again a similar situation of tweaking and re-re-re-retweaking the approved shots.

I decided that the only reasonably original, or semi-semi-semi-original, shots would depict real people at reasonably close range, especially interactions with multiple people.

Note that this deprioritizes “beauty” or “aesthetics” and prioritizes uniqueness or originality. In that past life I was a voracious consumer of the most respected works of “the masters”. One day, rather suddenly, I realized how that body of works had “99.9%” of aesthetic photographic endeavor by-the-balls. Originality was being smothered by restrictive awe.

Realizing that the essence of photography is that it starts with a real world subject, I figgered that since no two people are alike, then honest portraits represented the only unique landscapes, and that human interaction represents the best opportunities for somewhat unique action.
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Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

Anything that catches my eye. Mostly birds, flowers and an occasional landscape. I also like getting animals of any sort, large or small. Guess all this puts me in the anything and everything category.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

Historically, I've always been a technically oriented person. As an engineer, I have liked to shoot railroads, bridges, dams, buildings, aircraft, and the like. This included fulfilling lots of requests to do documentary and training photography at work. Or major "things" of nature"...like desertscapes, mountainscapes, oceanscapes, animals, and the night sky. And zoos and arboretums. Since retiring and undertaking my second career of substitute teaching, and, most recently, of settling in at a single school and making several new friends, including all of the art teachers there, my horizons have broadened, at least a little. People find their way into my photographs more now, along with other interesting, if mundane subjects. No portraits. A few stage events.

My major focus of learning going forward right now is centered around the question of "scope" and "scale." Of these, scope is the easier to address. It basically is just concerned with where the edges are...what is in the photograph and what is not. It is part of, but really goes significantly beyond the question of framing when we discuss composition. It's akin to the question of defining boundaries of problems in scientific and engineering endeavor...what is part of the problem, and what is not. Scale is much more difficult, and relates to the problem of communicating just how big the Grand Canyon really is in that photograph. What does it mean to be 17 miles across? What does it mean to be a mile deep? How can that really be effectively conveyed? The old formula of putting a person somewhere in the frame really doesn't do it. So what does? My friend who is a painter has agreed to help me with this. She can "bend" elements of a scene, or "stretch" them in ways that I cannot as a photographer. Or can I? We'll see. The investigation will be fun.

ELNikkor

WOW! One scenic per decade; and in Australia, no less! Great that you are going to go out there and get some now; be sure and share your efforts with us, as I, for one, have never been "down" there. Just last night, I was thinking about your "everything and anything?" question. Yes, no real specialty, but always looking for the composition, timing, lighting, historical value, family event, special animal, nature phenomenon subject that might make a great photo.