What "Other" Hobbies Do You Enjoy?

[scottywil]

My hobbies after work play piano:celebrate008_2:

 

[gadawg]

Other than Audio then I guess Photography is my next most expensive hobby ... here is a shot from this past summer at White Rock Lake in Dallas

 

[Puma Cat]

Photography (both personal competition work and professional real estate/architectural/product/motorsports photojournalism)

Some examples:
RE:

Motorsports PJ (e.g. MotoGP):

And personal work entered into Competition

Cycling (though these days its on a recumbent trike)

Watch Collecting/Photography

Writing (for TAS)

Quantum Mechanics

A New Year's resolution is to start learning guitar.

When I was younger, I studied classical ballet assiduously for 10 years (class 4-5X/week).

When I quit ballet, I took up motorcycle road racing (and track days).

 

[Puma Cat]

Other than Audio then I guess Photography is my next most expensive hobby ... here is a shot from this past summer at White Rock Lake in Dallas

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Nice. Looks like you're pretty serious about your photography.

Something I'd recommend is checking out Greg Benz' Dodging and Burning course using luminosity masking. I've learned a lot from it and luminosity masking is one of the most important photographic techniques I've learned in the last 10 years.

Link here: Greg Benz Photography - Luminosity Masking, Photoshop Tutorials, and cityscape and landscape photography

 

[a.wayne]

Photography (both personal competition work and professional real estate/architectural/product/motorsports photojournalism)

Some examples:
RE:

Motorsports PJ (e.g. MotoGP):

And personal work entered into Competition

Cycling (though these days its on a recumbent trike)

Watch Collecting/Photography

Writing (for TAS)

Quantum Mechanics

A New Year's resolution is to start learning guitar.

When I was younger, I studied classical ballet assiduously for 10 years (class 4-5X/week).

When I quit ballet, I took up motorcycle road racing (and track days).

Wait , what ..! You went from Ballet to Racing motorcycles ..

 

[Puma Cat]

Wait , what ..! You went from Ballet to Racing motorcycles ..

Yup...two sides of the same coin: extremely fine neuromuscular control while moving through space.

 

[CPP]

Sometimes my wife's hobby rules mine.

 

[steve59]

Trail bicycling, hiking, waverunners, motorcycling, Target shooting currently a witness stock 3 10mm, cz 10 short(p09), ruger .357. and gulp computer games.

 

[Phishphan]

What "Other" Hobbies Do You Enjoy?

Cooking. My favorite is smoking meat in the summer. I make my own rubs, and sauces.

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[Barry]

1) World Travel is #1. Covid is killing me!
2) Road Cycling for over 50 years. Many great exploits when I was younger. Now a little bit more of a social thing.
3) Food & Wine. Sadly, my tolerance for alcohol has diminished somewhat, and my wife is getting more than half the bottle. Who's hobby is this anyway?
4) Financial Markets. Was my job for several years. Now reading about it is mostly just for fun. Thankfully, don't need help managing money (or spending it!).

 

[a.wayne]

Yup...two sides of the same coin: extremely fine neuromuscular control while moving through space.

Unless you are on A TZ500 ...

 

[mallen123]

- Riding Motorcycles - My 2013 Ducati Diavel and 2001 Aprilia Mille R
- Riding mountain bikes - older Lefty Cannondales and my newer 29r Santa Cruz
- Breeding Bengal Cats - PurfectPrideBengals on facebook
- My Koi pond at our AirBnB
- My Cabernet Vineyard at our AirBnB
- Playing my Jazz, Steel String and Classical Guitars'
- Flying Radio Controlled Helicopters

 

[stereogeek]

Audio, mountain biking on a Trek Fuel, dirt biking on a KTM 300xcw and flying RC sailplanes.

 

[puroagave]

Audio, mountain biking on a Trek Fuel, dirt biking on a KTM 300xcw and flying RC sailplanes.

slope or thermal? I used to live near Torrey Pines Gliderport and flew RC at the north end of the slope. when the wind blew straight in at 20+ knots the lead sleds came out--what a rush!

 

[Marslo]

Tennis, biking ( Trek Fuel EX 5,5) swimming, boating ( Chaparral 275 SSi ) . Kayak and SUP. Playing piano . Riding an old Harley ( Sportster 883 ) . Snowmobile if enough snow. Nordic walking . Collecting art , reading books/magazines and drinking wine

And mostly - wasting time at audio forums :hey:

 

[stereogeek]

slope or thermal? I used to live near Torrey Pines Gliderport and flew RC at the north end of the slope. when the wind blew straight in at 20+ knots the lead sleds came out--what a rush!

Here in Florida we fly mostly thermal. I met a guy at the flying field one day who was one of the best sailplane pilots in the country and he had the trophies to back it up. He was in an elite group of RC sailplane pilots that had kept a sailplane in the air for 8 hours without landing. He used a spot in Florida called Bel Aire Bluffs. The wind was blowing in and it was a bit chilly so he propped up a piece of plywood in front of him and launched the plane. An hour or so later the cops were called because the residents didn't like the look of the plywood and they made him take it down. About 1/2 way through the day he had to take a dump so he propped the plywood back up, did his business and took the plywood back down. The cops came back and he told them what he had to do and they left him alone after that. BTW, for folks that don't know, the slope sailplanes are the fastest RC planes there are and they don't even have a motor. My thermal planes have electric motors to get a few hundred feet up and then you shut the motor off and the prop folds. I have been so high up I have lost sight of the sailplane. You have to make the plane "dirty" by holding the elevator full up and the rudder full to one side. If you try to dive the plane to get it down you can get going so fast you can flap the wings right off of them. Experience is speaking here, lol.

 

[TheOctopus]

Another life long RC fan. Never tried slope soaring but thermals with sailplanes, I have. Mostly enjoy helicopters and airplanes as far as flying and am proficient with aerobatics, precision, pattern, 3D. There was a time I was really into car racing both off and on road (have not raced since the 90's). Another words if it is radio controlled, I like it! I am mostly into building scale trucks these days as I love to wrench on stuff, build models and airbrush and the scale trucks let me enjoy all three. Just finished up a "Post Apocalyptic" zombie escape vehicle. Jeep XJ Cherokee build. Fun project. Way too many of toys but the grandkids will have a blast one day playing with them all haha.













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[Stagger Lee]

I decided to write a novel. A murder mystery. I never tried this before and I learned a lot while having fun. I self published the book and it has five star reviews on Amazon. I don't need the money so I donate whatever Amazon sends me to my Kiwanis club for Children's charities in town. The title is "What You Wish For" Kindle downloads and paperback is available on Amazon. I wrote it for fun and it's very gratifying to have other people enjoy it.

 

[MichalDabrowski]

I Grow Orchids, I learned how to breed. I also like to read everything in a row, now there is a lot of new stuff in electronic form.