Practice of creating images of destinations, objects, and events in one's life using a camera or mobile device.
Practice of creating pictures about some events in ones life.
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Questions tagged [photography]
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Where is this photo of a group of hikers taken? Is it really in the Ural?
With this story on tutu.ru on the Kvarkush plateau in the Ural comes this photo with the filename ural-4.jpg:
Source: tutu.ru.
It doesn't look like the Ural to me — on other photos of the Kvarkush plateau the landscape look much more rounded than…
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Where was this stock photo taken?
It's one of the background choices for Linux Mint. I tried doing a reverse Google image search and found this website, but it doesn't say where it was taken.
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Can I sell the photographs I take on a tourist visa?
I'm a hobbyist photographer that enjoys traveling (combines very well, I can assure you). Usually I just post the pictures I take on social media, but I'm also considering selling some of the better shots or using them in other ways to generate…
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Why do some tourist attractions forbid tourists to take photographs?
In my travelling career, I have seen lots of no photography zones, but the reasoning behind it mostly made sense. It is related to national security (infrastructure, proximity of military bases) and museums (copyright issues and/or light-sensitive…
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How can you enjoy nature, when it looks better in photographs than in person?
My grandparents acknowledge technology's ability to distort and exaggerate pictures. Yet they still feel hoodwinked by (second-rate) reality compared to first-rate images. What can they do or improve? E.g. they expected:
Picture 1, at Parc national…
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Can a shop in the Netherlands force you to buy clothes if you take a photo?
I've just been in a shop in Amsterdam which had a sign saying:
No pictures allowed and specially not when wearing our garments!!!
If we see you making pictures anyway, you will have to buy them by law!!
To my British sensibilities, it seems…
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Where was this picture taken in 1932?
This picture was taken about 1932 in central Europe - probably in Czechoslovakia, maybe in Budweis.
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How can I protect camera equipment in checked baggage?
While I usually take my camera equipment in a carry-on when I fly (within the US), that's not always an option (small plane where no carry-on other than my purse is allowed, travelling with too much computer/camera equipment to carry it all on,…
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What publicly accessible tall structures to take photos from exist in London?
I'm looking for publicly accessible tall structures in London from where I can take photos of the city.
The Monument to the Great Fire of London has pretty good views, and I understand you can get good views from the dome in St Paul's Cathedral. Any…
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Where is the background photo used by Office 365 taken?
If you login to Office 365 on http://login.microsoftonline.com, you see following picture.
Does anyone know where it was taken. I could not find it with Google.
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Is it possible to take a photo of Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) from an airplane window?
I see sometimes photos of the Elizabeth Tower allegedly taken from an airplane window. Here are just two of them taken from Instagram account loves_bigben.
Do passenger airplanes really fly such low heights above the center of London that it is…
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Where (in Germany) is the landscape behind this newsreader, with a gazebo on a small, lush steep hill surrounded by higher, broader forested hills?
When the German tagesschau evening news on the public broadcaster Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD) announce the upcoming weather forecast, there is the image of a landscape…
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Why can't I take photos inside of stores in Portugal?
In a para-pharmacy in Porto, I was stopped from taking a photo of a product in their store. (I was going to use it to look up the product online to see if I could switch out the power cord when I got back to the U.S.) I was confronted by an employee…
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Can you use a camera during take off and landing?
Based on this question I wondered how the rules are about using a camera during take off and landing, and whether they differ for different kinds of cameras. And by whom the rules are made and enforced.
From seeing what happens during the flights I…
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What traffic interchange does this picture show?
I found this attractive picture
from http://www.cowen.com/reports/exploring-the-future-of-transportation/ and wondered what interchange it's based on.
It's perfectly symmetrical so the creator likely mirrored it along the median or central…
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