One thing I have learned over the decades I have spent teaching myself to be a photographer: sure, it’s great to travel far from home and see dramatic scenes and exotic subjects. But especially during the early months of the pandemic, I learned how to *see* something new even in the same places I experience every day. Hiking the same trails and visiting the same woods time and time again, I ended up making images that resonate with me more deeply than most of the work I made since I first picked up a camera at age 18.
You got me thinking about how everybody's far off exotic place to visit is someone else's home. It takes somebody to build a 'home' for a place to be special enough for others to visit. Apart from natural landscapes, it's the 'locals' that make the trails and parking lots.
One thing I have learned over the decades I have spent teaching myself to be a photographer: sure, it’s great to travel far from home and see dramatic scenes and exotic subjects. But especially during the early months of the pandemic, I learned how to *see* something new even in the same places I experience every day. Hiking the same trails and visiting the same woods time and time again, I ended up making images that resonate with me more deeply than most of the work I made since I first picked up a camera at age 18.
Totally true!
Beautiful comment, Janet.
You got me thinking about how everybody's far off exotic place to visit is someone else's home. It takes somebody to build a 'home' for a place to be special enough for others to visit. Apart from natural landscapes, it's the 'locals' that make the trails and parking lots.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)