What is your favourite genre?

[Duane Pipe]

I went for creatures. Although I wouldn't say that it is my favorite it's just something that's easily accessed. I do like sport for a challenge but that's few and far between.

[Mark L]

..... However I do want to try and extend into other genre's

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[wanderer51]

Not surprising that 'Places' is leading, well at the time of writing anyway. While I sometimes dabble in other genres I always return to the only genre that really interests me, Land/Sea/City scapes, coupled with 10 stop ND long exposures.

[neil70]

sport sport sport and then weddings. odd mix i know

[bobt]

I picked "other" because I like weird creative stuff and tabletop photography. It's the God complex .... table top photography gives you total control !!!

[Allie]

I like looking at landscape photos and macros as photographed by other people but chose creatures as my own subject of choice as native animals and dogs are my passion and interest .... however not at the same time or in the same photo!

[REDbiv]

I chose Nature, because it's so open haha. But I really love shooting land/seascapes, animals, macro, I often don't get the camera out when I'd love to. Land/seascapes are so versatile, animals are unpredictable and you can get magic shots with an itchy trigger finger, and macro is simply another universe.

[Glenda]

I chose places but I'm still waiting to shoot a fantastic landscape/seascape. I also enjoy sport, birds and candid people shots - but only have the confidence to do this when away on holidays.

[enseth]

"Creatures" for me, which mainly means birds, but I also enjoy Macro ie insects. The main reason for this is because you don't have to hunt too hard to find a new subject. Just walk outside. With Landscapes & Architecture etc. it usually means jumping in the car and going somewhere.

[kiwi]

Anything paid :-)

Mostly sport though these days

[Derek-C]

I voted other as I don't seem to have a favourite.

Just enjoy what I do take.

Derek

[mongo]

F O O D ...!! Particularly other peoples'

[glennb]

I chose places but I am getting an interest in macro/insect photography, Im starting to see a different alien like world that getting my interest.

[jev]

I picked "other". Anything that requires creativity to tell a story, really. Always looking for Le Moment Decisif, in any picture.

[evat601]

Places, namely architecture and the way it interacts with it's surrounds.

[ricktas]

Thanks for all the comments and votes. I wanted to see if your choices in this poll reflected how the voting went on the Photo of the Year. Thus from this poll and the 'least favourite genre' poll, I was interested in seeing if the way you viewed different genre, affected how you would vote in a photography competition.

*You being as a group, not individually

[mpb]

As an individual I definitely vote lower on genre and subjects I am least interested in compared to the "Group".
I like to look at how I have voted compared to everyone else. It is interesting to see that the biggest variation usually correlate to those genres and subjects I do not find ingesting. This should be no surprise, just human nature, the biggest surprise is the amount of variation.

[rackham]

Most certainly places.

I grew up interacting with the outdoors and now I do it for a job. Landscapes make sense to me. When I look at a photo of somewhere I find it easier to embrace it.

Photos of someone on the otherhand don't encourage that same level of empathy or personal involvement. Animals go a bit both ways; photos of animals in their natural habitat absolutely do it for me, but the habitat is crucial. Photos of animals in zoos/enclosures/managed places, no, no thanks.

Photos of something I find go a bit both ways too. How that thing interacts with its surroundings is pretty key (so a lighthouse getting smashed by a huge wave, yes, everyone has seen that photo, I shamelessly love it)... otherwise it just strikes me as documentation (here's a photo of me with the Eiffel Tower/Leaning Tower of Pisa/Opera House/etc).

Sport is pretty great though. The conflict and the pursuit of excellence, when it's captured well it's awesome. A lot of the time though it still strikes me more as just snaps from a sideline. I think it's genuinely hard to cross that bridge.

[piXelatedEmpire]

Wild birds are my number 1 focus, however of late I have been getting into photographing my extensive chicken collection

[Babu]

I enjoy shooting a wide range of subjects but I derive most enjoyment from capturing shots of wildlife of the non-human variety.

The (civilised) human animal is too often prone to affectation (trying to look 'hot', be 'cool, 'unreal', 'wicked'...especially in their selfies) and the desire to make a buck at the expense of losing any kind of credibility. This certainly does not apply to victims of wars, famines, disasters... captured by press photographers, often at personal risk. I treasure a great many pics I've taken of people in villages in Africa, India, South America, Borneo, Madagascar... going about their daily business.

There are always amazing triumphs or calamities in the sporting arenas. I have shots of nacreous clouds in Antarctica and amazing sunrises and sunsets all over the world but the shots I treasure most (other than those of my grandson) are of wild creatures doing their thing: lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas chasing and bringing down their prey; Polar bears, Rwandan gorillas, Malagasy lemurs, orang-utans & proboscis monkeys of Borneo at play in rainforests; albatrosses, boobies, condors, drongos, eagles, flamingos, frigate birds, horn-bills, tropic birds ...

...it really gives me a charge to catch them doing their thing, being beautiful without posturing!
I voted for creatures.