Odd hobbies?

[crazy_red]

Besides gardening, does anyone have any other hobbies some people might consider odd/weird?

Artistic/ adrenaline fuelled or just off the beaten path?

Or things that they are trying to teach themselves?


Red x

[Johnny Appleseed]

A hobby that is going backwards in time....

Forget all the latest digital cameras LOL, I'm going back in time and taking lots of pinhole photographs using an old film camera body. The lens is a piece of aluminium roasting foil with a needle hole in it.

The aperture is f186 for anyone interested and the exposure time is in seconds not fractions of a second.

If you want to experiment, you can also use a digital slr with the lens removed and a small hole drilled through the body cap.

It's great fun and the effects are superb.

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - home

Every year there is a World Pinhole Day and anyone can post an image they have taken with a pinhole camera but only on that day, and it is then displayed worldwide. The site is well worth a visit just to see some of the stunning images taken without a glass lens -just a hole in the lens cap.

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - home

[BrideXIII]

dunno about offbeat

make my own balls for the xmas tree, hand painted.
sculpt fairies, witches and goblins
hand painted tee shirts
carve runes
willing to try anything really

[HayleyB]

Land Rover trials (very competitive) see avatar - adrenaline pumping? definitely

used to showjump quite seriously but now told old - bones break easier

[HeyWayne]

I'm really rather dull.

I started this allotment lark to give me a hobby.

[shirlthegirl43]

Used to do a lot of showing, dressage, day-eventing and side-saddle but Madmax is allergic to the horseys so gave it up (still got 2 old-timers left waiting out their days).

Suffer (sometimes quite badly) from CFS/ME so don't have energy for much. Love our old jukeboxes which Madmax has bought looking like scrap and I have helped (I think) with restoring them. I also enjoy older cars and love our classics from the '80s

[geoff]

My other main hobby is hillwalking; unfortunately the best time for that, Spring, is also the time when the allotment demands the most attention - roll on retirement!

My indoor hobby is making model aeroplanes, the plastic kits, of which Airfix is the best known. Now this hobby is in decline, with the average age of those doing it getting older and older

[zazen999]

Forget all the latest digital cameras LOL, I'm going back in time and taking lots of pinhole photographs using an old film camera body. The lens is a piece of aluminium roasting foil with a needle hole in it.

The aperture is f186 for anyone interested and the exposure time is in seconds not fractions of a second.

If you want to experiment, you can also use a digital slr with the lens removed and a small hole drilled through the body cap.

It's great fun and the effects are superb.

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - home

Every year there is a World Pinhole Day and anyone can post an image they have taken with a pinhole camera but only on that day, and it is then displayed worldwide. The site is well worth a visit just to see some of the stunning images taken without a glass lens -just a hole in the lens cap.

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - home

Snap...

I was out yesterday taking pinholes on my DSLR through a f64 pinhole - got some great moving water shots.

I've also bought an old film camera - taken the plastic lens out and made a tiny pinhole [no idea of the f-stop] and made it into a pinhole camera. It's got a little shutter on the front, which means I have to cock it and release it so that I can wind it on as i'm using colour/B&W film - but I just open the shutter for a few minutes to take the shot.

I'm also doing alot of Holga images - with a wide angle lens gaffer-taped to the front, had them developed a few days ago and scanned them in last night. Need to get the colour right on photoshop before I ca print them out though.

I'm looking next at making a scanner camera - using an old flatbed scanner and lots of black foam board. and a magnifying glass for a lens...but got to find an old flat bed scanner from freecycle first.

[nelliegemini]

Teaching myself to make handbags, mainly from tweed but also pretty, soft girly fabrics. Making bracelets from glass beads (and using beads on handbags), I've just bought a clarinet and I'm a guide around our local lighthouse.

(thinks... perhaps the top of a lighthouse is the best place to learn clarinet)

[rustylady]

Don't consider it particularly odd - though some people do - I enjoy cross stitch embroidery. Also making jams, chutneys, wine, etc, though most of them get given away - there's only me at home now.

[Comfreyfan]

Fishing! Not an unusual hobby I know, but people seem to think it's odd cos I'm not a bloke! Everyone assumes it's OH's hobby and I go along to pour the coffee - wrong!

[crazy_red]

Have to fess up now you've all been so honest.....

I bellydance.....

[burnie]

Used to fly a Saker falcon for seven years

[lynda66]

i make miniature hats

[Comfreyfan]

Have to fess up now you've all been so honest.....

I bellydance.....

Now I'm really jealous - I'd love to try - just need someone brave enough to go with me!