Does where you live affect your photography?

[Brownbear]

Beautiful photos Kaye,

I too, always take photos of the sky and the clouds... Photographed at a bus stop with my husband asking me why, and truthfully I have too many of these, but I think they are pretty...

[drjuice]

Hi, GlenK -

I grew up 21 miles from there and, whenever I've been in Victoria (short drives of lots less than a half-hour, punctuated by 1 or 2 ferry rides depending on the route to get there), I've ALWAYS found lots of things to photograph, from Butchart Gardens to individual ivy leaves on the Empress to really interesting faces in the garden of a retirement home. Then, always looking at uniquely Canadian things, like a stack of donuts at Tim Horton's or a lineup of guys (no women in the line) waiting in the Day before Christmas cold to buy coffee off a truck at a construction site are often things that I find interesting. I even took a picture of the Horwood Ford dealership complete with four Chevys (all the same model and same color with identical signs in their windshields) in its used car lot once.

I'm jes' sayin'....

virginia

[Mito]

Valencia is a photographers dream. From modern architecture to historical, the dry river bed, fiestas, people, the ambience, it's a fantastic place. Just down the road is a National Park for wild fowl. Apart from the indigenous birds, migration time brings many different species.
I live 120km, 90 minutes away. In the 25 years I've lived here, have I ever been on a photo visit? Who's lost out then?

[KHarmon]

Where I live definitely affects my photography. For any of you who have ever been to west Texas, the Lubbock area specifically, would know that if you are into nature photography you are going to be sorely disappointed. The flat, wide open plains, are only good for growing cotton. The only nature you may run into is in the Ransom Canyon area where there are a few deer, turkey's, and the occasional bobcat. Getting to those areas to photograph them is a trick since all of that land is privately owned.

The only positive to photographing anything in this area is when there is a thunderstorm the wide open space is great for lightning photography.

[Henk33]

Do you think that where you live can affect your photography? In my mind, I live in a very uninteresting place photographically. Realistically, I understand that if I truly got my lazy bottom out there, I could find some interesting sites to photograph. Plus, being interested in macro photography, there is beauty in the tiny detail. Part of this stagnation is due to a bit of mental hang up, and part is that I need to reevaluate my surroundings. When you see something every day, sometimes you forget how interesting it can be.

You live in a boring place? I live in a suburb of Rotterdam in a town that is called very boring. I am photograping it for 40 years, I make thousands of photographs every year, most of them are made in my direct surroundings.
Also at home - what a boring place - but look under your dinner table or towards the ceiling or somewehere else with a different eye. You will find something interesting. I make hundreds of pictures a year of my cats, I stay fascinated with them after all this years.
I do macro - so at 1 or 2 meters from my door I find lots of insects, weed and flowers - the picture of the egg laying bug is made within a meter from my backdoor.


The western part of the Netherlands is very crowded, but you still can find some amazing landscape, Picture taken 3 km's out of town after a short bike ride. I always walk or cycle, with a car you miss a lot.


And industry - people at work, oh I can go on for hours!
I don't think there are boring places, only people who are bored!

Henk