the eye of sauron belgrade

So.....

one of my goals with PoptpoP (yes, there are goals, apparently (said like dr zoidberg)) is to fully delve into the whole idea of a poptpop. its not just photographs of people taking photographs that so fascinates me. its the whole process. the awkward looking at the back of the camera (thank YOU technology), the scooting people around in the frame, the SUPER intense postures people take to frame the shot just right, its the chimping the photo after, the re-shoots, and in THIS case, the "oh shit, Alexandra, I totally fucking nailed that posed next to fucking Saurons eye. Do you still have that palantír in your purse?" look of satisfaction right AFTER a POPTPOP.

poplsahtpt
(pictures of people looking satisfied after having their picture taken)

this is in belgrade, serbia (written "beograd" at the bottom of sauron's ...er..iris)

Bhate

I've never understood just what the hell Bhate is. anyone know? I got nothin'.


featured here is YET ANOTHER GLORIOUS GUEST POPTPOP.

Sir Brandon Ballard, ESQ again sends in magic.

below you'll see a picture of kevin "k-bone" "chostagev" wilder photographing j-rod allen photographing a weird bhate building.
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note that this is a cropped version of this image to attempt to stick to the "width" of this blog without making a single image ungodlyily hugegantic.

if you want to see the larger version, navigate to this URL


©Brandon Ballard

who doesn't love a botanical garden? its a great place for a photo

who doesn't love a botanical garden? its a great place for a photo. its practically a fact. you can take blurry photos of flowers. you can take pictures of different....things that are...growing. you can take bad portraits of friends costumed as faeries, kids in matching outfits, or i guess kids it matching flowers.

this is a place in monroe, la that has nickel cokes which is why we went there. NICKEL FRIGGEN COKES. in 2008. its the former home, i think, of the local area old school bottling plant duder who was the coke guy way back in the day. now this place is a museum of boring but b'god they have some cheap ass coke. in a bottle. delish.

an odd poptpop

So we've been on such a roll lately with submissions and interactions and what have yous I thought I'd throw in an odd ball.

this is me taking a picture of me (or Cary; portrait of a grey beard hair) but its Also john shooting Boris and Trevor (Boris is hidden behind my melon).

this was at the end of our euro trip in vienna, were we were having a relaxing time at the park watching people.


picture of me taking a picture of me taking a picture of john taking a picture of trevor and boris
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WE HAVE A WINNER (and a runner upper!)

Okay so competition was fierce. There were blog guesses and facebook guesses.

THE RESULTS ARE IN:

the winner is the lovely TAMMY HARPER! I hereby award this part-inkling person the arbitrarily numbered bonus points!
her answer:

ah! i finally found it.

there is totally a dude squatting down in front of the stairs taking a picture of the dude with his hands in the air.


Now! That said, the multi-talented ANNA CARRIGAN answered here on poptpop TWO minutes faster than Tammy, howEVER she seemed to throw in the towel. She got the man on the stairs with his hands up but didn't find the photographer and reinforced this by ending with "i have no idea". SO CLOSE!

As a consolation prize, and because she was wonderful enough to SEND IN HER OWN POPTPOP (thank you), she gets today's post!

Background story from Anna:

in Edinburgh, Calton Hill, Lindsay Blount taking a picture of Alison in front of the National Monument aka the Parthenon aka Edinburgh's Folly because it never got finished.

The Photo:


©Lindsay Blount [or Anna Carrigan]


other notes:

since those were basically two winners, the "official" runner up is Meg "is that meg posing by the pool on portico?" Rymer McClung!

and i think we all agree the women are American. They are dirty, rotten, and from Florida or from the Midwest. It is clear they say things like "warsh" as well. You can tell by the pants.

More poptpop to come!

I think I smell another Mr Brandon on the way.


SEND ME YOUR DAMN POPTPOPs!



ps, my favorite part of anna's poptpop is the couple of people perched on monoment.

viewer contributed poptpop! brandon ballard!

So here is another contributor photo that is LOVELY (and how!). Thanks to reader Brandon Ballard for sending this one in! (I took some liberties with the post..I hope thats okay)

what a great Picture of a person taking a picture of a group of people at the st louis arch (poaptapoagopatsla)

thanks mister brandon!


©Brandon Ballard



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(soon there will be a more elegant way to submit, but for now, email me them!)

more dubrovnik croatia

Hey!

So here is another one from a recent trip to Croatia. This gem is technically a double poptpop. 19.7 bonus points to the first person to point it out!

extra bonus points for attempting to guess where these ladies are from. guess guess guess. i dont know, i just want to read your funny guesses.


ALSO! I just now realized that I didn't have blogger sending me emails when people comment so I have not as yet replied to you all! I WILL! KEEP COMMENTING! YOUR COMMENTS FEED STARVING CHILDREN (im told)! YOUR POPTPOP™ COMMENTS CAN SAVE THE WORLD (apparently)!

So here are the ladies at some place in the old fortress in Dubrovnik.

Holla, Ladies!

dubrovnik wall

the city center wall in Dubrovnik is a bit attraction (costs like 10 bucks just to walk around. whatever to that). these people (blurry) were waving.

The Original!

SO I PRESENT TO YOU!

The original shot from many years ago taken by my good friend John Yam (seen many times on electric lion, and maybe once so far on here..more to come..don't fret).

This shot, to me, is just so epic. The man taking the shot's posture is one of the best things I've ever seen.

John was in Washington DC across from the National Gallery (I think) and saw this nonsense.


©John Yam

This image stuck with me for years and it was only this year that I realized that I have been taking shots of the same kind of subject ever since then (and decided to make a blog about it).

Who out there has a POPTPOP to share? Have a Double? A triple? THE ILLUSIVE QUADRUPLE?

Send it my way!

Send in your PopTpoP's with a little background info and it may well end up here!

GET INVOLVED! SEND THEM IN!