Your Favorite Pictures Of Pipes

[SlowToke]

These aren't my pipes but, rather, pipes I've made and photographed. These are some of my favorite photos:

[durangopipe]

Absolutely spectacular, Wayne.
So glad you posted. You've taken this thread to an extraordinarily high level.

[Goose55]

My understanding of this thread was that it was intended to be about favorite pictures of pipes, not pictures of favorite pipes

That's right. That's why I phrased it that way. Favorite pictures of pipes

What if my favorite pictures of pipes are pictures of my favorite pipes?

Than you would be like me! I like pictures of my pipes. Especially those I've refurbed.

[philofumo]

Great thread idea Goose!

I've enjoyed looking at the photography and all the nice pipes therein.

Love the evocative atmosphere set in your pix Durango, they create a calm and mellow mood in me.

And Wayne, your art also evokes!
-drool-
Good stuff!

My absolute favorite pipe picture that I've taken came out in a way that I just love...



...a few more from the same maker,
Gian Maria Gamboni:



Serendipitous butterfly on an Askwith:



A Genod + oatmeal stout =



Monkey Style Condor Ashton:



1991 Ashton Brindle at 90mph in a 1986 Saab 900 Turbo.



Just a beautiful pipe,
WDC Ripple Briar.



David Enrique rhodesian emulating GLP's noirish shadowstyle photography.

[Goose55]

Nice pix, Philo. That one with the smoke wafting out of it is classic.

[durangopipe]

Beautiful pipes, great photos, philo.
I love what you do with shadows.

[philofumo]

Nice pix, Philo. That one with the smoke wafting out of it is classic.

It is incredibly difficult to capture a smoldering pipe, and it can be a frustrating exercise.
That one is the best I could do --- I've seen better though!

Beautiful pipes, great photos, philo.
I love what you do with shadows.

That style was cribbed from GLP as I was heavily influenced by his eye and technique, my attempts are an amateur show compared to his stuff,
good eyeballing in his Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/glpease/



More pictures please people!

This is a wonderful thread!

[durangopipe]

Nice pix, Philo. That one with the smoke wafting out of it is classic.

It is incredibly difficult to capture a smoldering pipe, and it can be a frustrating exercise.
That one is the best I could do --- I've seen better though!

Beautiful pipes, great photos, philo.
I love what you do with shadows.

That style was cribbed from GLP as I was heavily influenced by his eye and technique, my attempts are an amateur show compared to his stuff,
good eyeballing in his Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/glpease/



More pictures please people!

This is a wonderful thread!

Pease's B&Ws have given me some ideas.
Very Man Ray-like.

Thanks for the link, Philo.

[philofumo]

Nice pix, Philo. That one with the smoke wafting out of it is classic.

It is incredibly difficult to capture a smoldering pipe, and it can be a frustrating exercise.
That one is the best I could do --- I've seen better though!

Beautiful pipes, great photos, philo.
I love what you do with shadows.

That style was cribbed from GLP as I was heavily influenced by his eye and technique, my attempts are an amateur show compared to his stuff,
good eyeballing in his Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/glpease/



More pictures please people!

This is a wonderful thread!

Pease's B&Ws have given me some ideas.
Very Man Ray-like.

Thanks for the link, Philo.

Yep.

He's a great photographer no doubt.

The b&w stuff is amazing, and besides the shadows he also uses a sort of pictorialist blur thing too, sort of like the romantic soft-cinema close-ups of actresses --- an effect difficult to get without manual focus, or vaseline on the lens.

[GaryInVA]

No, Goose. They're all my own photos.

Photographing my pipes is as much of a hobby for me as collecting and smoking them. I almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.

Here are a few more . . .

Pre-Cadogan Comoy's bent apple


Pre-Cadogan Comoy's blasted billiard


Ropp horn-stem Liverpool


Stanwell Sterling 109


Stanwell Trio 95


Viprati Cherrywood POTY 2013

You live a charmed and blessed life! The pipes are beautiful.

GaryinVA and I are going to raid your house sometime soon while you are away. We have an agreement. He gets the Tinskys, and takes the wrap. All the others are for me!

Shhhhhh, I get the ones with intact stems...

[joegoat]

I love photographing my pipes after I finish them. My photography skills are next to zero, but the stars align for me on occasion.

[A_Morley]

Here is a picture of the pipe that I am smoking right the hell now. It's a Peterson Emerald rustic Canadian that I bought at a sho called the News & Smokes sometime in the early two thousands. It's the second Peterson pipe I ever bought. It also has had a brief career on the stage. When I was Lucky in a production of Waiting for Godot a few years ago I was asked by the director what a Peterson pipe was because another of the characters was described as smoking one in the text of the play. I brought all of the Petersons I had to the next rehearsal and told the actor playing Pozzo to pick the one that most appealed to him for his character to smoke. He chose this one and pretended to smoke it through the run of the show. I should have just made the theater buy him his own damn pipe.

[durangopipe]

Lovely photo, Morley.
Beautiful light.
Great story.

The Norton Shakespeare anthology!

Is that your journal?

[DepartedLight]

[Goose55]

Pipes? Seems ones pants would catch fire from the exhaust pipes

[Gabriel]

Niiiiiiice...

[joegoat]

Fixed it! I think. I'm still mostly computer illiterate.
I love photographing my pipes after I finish them. My photography skills are next to zero compared to some of y'all, but the stars align for me on occasion.

[Fainn]

I just can't post my favorite picture. My wife would kill me and I'd get booted from the forum.

[Goose55]

Fixed it! I think. I'm still mostly computer illiterate.
I love photographing my pipes after I finish them. My photography skills are next to zero compared to some of y'all, but the stars align for me on occasion.

You refurb these 3 pipes, Joe? Nice job. Nice pix.

[joegoat]

Fixed it! I think. I'm still mostly computer illiterate.
I love photographing my pipes after I finish them. My photography skills are next to zero compared to some of y'all, but the stars align for me on occasion.

You refurb these 3 pipes, Joe? Nice job. Nice pix.

These are three of the ones I made.