Sunday, November 4, 2007

Thoughts and Pictures

In every city, town or village, there is the the local gift store. We had a chance to visit many of these during this trip. In every one the is usually the section of the local book describing why this place is the best place. There are also these photo books, with glorious images (mostly nature) of the given state usually. In most cases this is the highest level of nature photography, though usually under estimated. In every place I visit, naturally I want to capture things the best I can, being inspired and guided by these books and photographers quite a lot. The more land I cover here, the more I see it's impossible. Not because of my skills (though probably too) but because I don't live here. All of the photographers that specialise in a specific place, is in most cases a resided of that area, so they have all year long, with all four seasons. If it's Darwin Wigget photographing the Canadian Rockies living in Alberta, or David Middelton living in Vermont (no room for comparison), and the list goes on (even those who don't live near by, usually have periodically access to their certain area). So is it possible to be this kind of photographer from two weeks (or three months) of travelling? no matter how photo oriented the trip is. Am I waisting my time (obviously I'm not moving here, and in the moment Israel doesn't have the kind of scenes you see here)? As you can see, this chain of thoughts consists of much (much) more variables, and is written here pretty raw, but in essence this is it.

I will leave you with some views of North Conway, New Hampshire.


Have a great week.


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow, that's set us thinking - its a hard one, philosophically, not to mention practically. I'm not sure there is really an answer. Of course the local has the luxury of accessibility and of not being limited to time or change of season.
The other side of the coin of course relates to the things the "new", "unused-to-the-area/climate/locale" eye sees. A fresh uncluttered viewing with no connection to the place, no previus agenda, can produce original "in the eyes of the beholder" shots that make for a lot of perhaps more interesting photography... However you look at it, you're a talented photographer !