Anything Never Photographed (Page 4): Interesting yet pointless question. Note most of the replies have some implied time travel element. Virtually everything and every place on Earth...

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

John_F wrote:

I have been a reader here for some 6 months and have enjoyed looking at all the photos. This has caused a question in my mind. Short of booking a seat on the next space capsule flight, is there anything that has not been photographed before?

Interesting yet pointless question. Note most of the replies have some implied time travel element. Virtually everything and every place on Earth has been photographed since Nicéphore Niépce 1826 or 1827; photography became commercially viable around 1839. I would imagine there are obscure caves and under ocean locations never seen before or photographed. And every now and then a new species of something shows up (often from those two types of places). Note National Geographic (since 1888) and Life Magazine (1883 to 1972).

A possible one that I don't believe I've seen is a macro of a rock on the dark side of the moon. I would guess possible things not photographed would be the impossible or near impossible to actually do. A photo of a single Hydrogen Atom; Though I have seen a X-ray microscope image of a Benzene molecule. The pi cloud of electrons around it is large! A photograph (conventional) of the core of the Earth from its inside.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

davidrb wrote:

On another day it will be a different shot.

That is very true and I was thinking that too, but that is not what he asked.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

John_F wrote:

I have been a reader here for some 6 months and have enjoyed looking at all the photos. This has caused a question in my mind. Short of booking a seat on the next space capsule flight, is there anything that has not been photographed before?

Playing with silly impossibles again. A hot 105 degree day in MN. A naturally occurring cacti in Antarctica.

On the serious side, each photograph is unique.

rdgreenwood Loc: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

I've never seen a clear shot of a Canon owner and a Nikon owner smiling in agreement.

Mudshark Loc: Illinois

Well, up until a few months back I could have given you an answer. But my wife demanded I undergo a colonoscopy. She was convinced the medical community would discover the location of my missing brain
So, at this timeI can't think of anyplace that has not been photographed. AlthoughI'm not sure about Al Gore's brain...

pwmcmahan Loc: Whitney, Texas

John_F wrote:

I have been a reader here for some 6 months and have enjoyed looking at all the photos. This has caused a question in my mind. Short of booking a seat on the next space capsule flight, is there anything that has not been photographed before?

Schrodinger's Cat

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

John_F wrote:

I have been a reader here for some 6 months and have enjoyed looking at all the photos. This has caused a question in my mind. Short of booking a seat on the next space capsule flight, is there anything that has not been photographed before?

Every image made is the only one and that image has never been photographed before. Every time you press the shutter of a camera the resulting image is the only one.

stan0301 Loc: Colorado

To the best of my knowledge there are no photographs of someone being struck by lightning--could be wrong
Stan

Apjar307 Loc: Cheyenne, Wyoming

mcveed wrote:

Tomorrow's sunrise.

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OldEarl Loc: Northeast Kansas

pwmcmahan wrote:

Schrodinger's Cat

You'd have to open the box and then you would know whether the cat was alive or dead.

rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

rook2c4 wrote:

Instead of searching for something new to photograph, seek out an entirely unique and different perspective of the old.

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Hacksaw Loc: Pacific Northwest

A Black Hole

Reinaldokool Loc: San Rafael, CA

John_F wrote:

I have been a reader here for some 6 months and have enjoyed looking at all the photos. This has caused a question in my mind. Short of booking a seat on the next space capsule flight, is there anything that has not been photographed before?

Many things have been snapshot. Far fewer have been photographed well.

foodie65

You might profit by taking a picture of an honest politician.

LJR

Some of the replies bring out interesting points about different photographers' differing approaches to the same or similar subjects.

An example: I am one of a group of six photographers who have been meetin approximately every month for the past 10 or 11 years to critique each others' photographs. Several years ago one of them suggested the she and I go to a salvage yard not far from where we live. After receiving permission to photograph each of us wandered around the yard for a couple of hours. On our way hoime we discovered that both of us had taken pictures of the same subject, a basketball backboard and hoop that was lying on the ground. We decided to show prints of each of our photos of the backboard to our critique group at our next session. When we did so it was obvious that the subject and the lighting were the same, but how each of us saw and photographed that subject was quite different. And the critiques of both images were positive.

While there may be nothing new under the sun, how they are perceived and photographed are without limits.