Sharing this here because I think it’s a photo of @fanofrockytop on the 1st at Athens Country Club.
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Yes sir, that’s me!
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Want to make sure I understand the rules of this thread - are we just sharing our favorite golf photos we took?
Share any golf photo you took, good or bad. We’re golf junkies, any fix will do.
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I’ll oblige - this off the 17th fairway at Turner Hill, Ipswich MA (which I’ve adopted as my avatar since I love this building)
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Some lovely photos of Hankley Common:
The deep purple heather (proper heather, not the tall wispy grass which is sometimes called heather) really makes the greens and surrounds pop.
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Not sure if I should start a new thread for this, but in preparing to teach a class, I’ve remembered a few iconic photographs from the history of the medium that incidentally happen to include golf. Was wondering if there were other examples (outside of sports photography, in a fine art context) that may have crossed your radars.
There’s a frame from Mitch Epstein’s “American Power” of guys teeing-off in front of a nuclear power plant. And the most famous example I can recall (in the context of fine-art photography shown in big exhibitions at museums) has to be Larry Sultan’s “Pictures from Home” project, which includes these two:
There was an “Art of Golf” traveling exhibition a few years back in which most of the work was deliberately about the game, but it included this amazement from Tim Hetherington’s incredible “Restrepo” project.
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Another odd example – from Emmet Gowin, who spent most of his career making portraits of his wife, friends and family members, in addition to aerial photography over nuclear test sites and other landscape destruction scenes. This is the making of a course from 1993. This is from MOMA’s collection.
Wonder if anyone could glance at this and instantly ID the place!
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Can you explain why this particular picture is “a great one”?
I’m in my last semester of grad school, so taking a photography course for fun. Unfortunately the intro photography courses are all full, so I’m taking an advanced level Documentary Photography course. Pretty nervous to be surrounded by real art people… Any tips to make the most of it?
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I’ll make a fool of myself real quick and dust off my art/photo critique from undergrad haha
To me I enjoy it compositionally. It’s interesting the 5 different areas are so visually stark and different from each other. The way golf carts lead to the golfers to windmills into nothing is a pretty cool way to capture all that angle wise.
Even the shape of the green with the shape of the cart path kind of work together in that contrast but it’s cool they were able to catch the similar overall shapes.
Then just in general the 5 areas all kinda work together to show just how jarring golf/desert golf is and definitely some sort of play on the need for energy being harvested right up next to a place where it is being expended like crazy to maintain the lush green grass.
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By no means am I going to knock your opinion, but from my eye, it doesn’t do anything for me. Sure there’s a ton of contrast to play off of… but… what else?
What’s the story that’s being told here? (I get stories from the others, but not this one.)
The light is just blah in my opinion. It’s midday sun. You could take the same picture in golden hour I’m guessing and get a whole lot more out of the backdrop.
Idk, it just doesn’t do anything for me.
Saw @alexshreff post this on IG and I’ve been wondering the same. Love the look of film but don’t want to drop a bunch of money. Any suggestions??
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That’s the great part of critique. There’s no one correct answer.
And everyone’s perspective/experience is gonna shape what they see hence our two very different ways of seeing it.
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So far two very different answers:
Pentax K1000
Smena 8M
I’m sure I’ll uncover more and will post here as I find some.
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I have a Chinon Auto 3001. I love it. eBay price should be 50 to 100 in good shape. Retailed for like 400 bucks back in 1987. A very solid brick too. It bounced around in my golf bag all last year.
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Just bought one of these last week since your Bandon and NC photos inspired me!
Edit: Everyone go back and look at @avess incredible photos
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Thank you. My day is made!
Harold Eugene Edgerton’s photographs of golf swings are wonderful and a significant technical achievement:
Martin Parr has a nice portfolio of golf related work in the Magnum archives.
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