Favorite Location (Real or Fantasy)

[CleverName]

Anyplace besides where i was 5 minutes ago,

OK, I'll bite. Where were you 5 minutes ago?

 

[MinorTones]

oops wasnt fishing. I meant anyplace new. I kinda knew that would not read well.
any place i could make a photograph i havent made before is a good place for me. 😀

 

[FPjohn]

Serious

Serious

Hello:

My favourite places would be Scotland and Greece. My two serious photographic subjects are State Street in Madison WI and the Falls and Gorge, with the Basins, at Grand Falls, NB.

yours
Frank

 

[Jason_K]

Right now my current favorite is outside the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington. It one of the most architecturally interesting places I've ever seen. They've also got a rotation of art installations at various locations outside as well.

I've got an album dedicated to it in my gallery, and I'm sure it will continue to be a source of inspiration for some time to come.

 

[John Robertson]

Marc, try visiting the Granton on Spey area, you could spend a week there visiting distilleries, then use your liver as a curling stone later 🙄

 

[RJBender]

Could be worse, I could've said Graceland. Thank you very much, thank you.

Don't ya wanna go see the graves next to the "cement pond"?
http://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/delta99/2memphis/graceland/grave.htm


R.J.

 

[Pherdinand]

One aspect that leaves me in wonder is famous photographers who come to Thailand and make books in a week or two. How in the world does one expect to make any kind of insight into a 2,500 year old evolving culture with a taxi driver and a lonely planet?

On one hand you are absolutely right, there's no way to get a 'good picture' about a culture in one week.
On the other hand, it might be an interesting book that reflects the view of an outsider who knows nothing about the culture, for people who never went there this will be an indication of what to expect when they go there for the first time - and, for people living there, it's interesting as well, or should be interesting, to know what are the first impressions they make to a complete stranger.

 

[Pherdinand]

Oh i just read a book about the scotch whisky distilleries and it left me with an impression that it is a MUST to go there once and spend 1-2 weeks going around. Thanks for the tips about the midgies.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

I'd like to go back to Ypres, especially the Menin (?) Gate, and the nearby battlefields and war graves.

 

[hugivza]

Oh i just read a book about the scotch whisky distilleries and it left me with an impression that it is a MUST to go there once and spend 1-2 weeks going around. Thanks for the tips about the midgies.

If you go you should go to Islay (pronounced Eye La) and try Laoproagh (La froyg) it's like drinking liquid peat, and is available in cask strength at 57% rather than the regular 40%. I only drink it for medicinal purposes, and it helps keep the midgies away so I have been led to believe. RF opportunities abound.

 

[Pherdinand]

i like laphroaig, one can get it here in NL in some pubs. My favourite so far was lagavulin. Last evening i tried Oban for the first time. A little bit sweet for my taste. Islay is certainly on my list.
what's 'peat'??

 

[Bertram2]

Where would you go? Why?

Me... Cabo Sao Vincente, on the extreme south western tip of Europe.

For hundreds of years this was 'The Edge of the World'. And it still feels that way.

I've been there and yes, it's a very fascinating place indeed, a bit magic in that sense
of "end of the world" .

Among the cities Paris is still the one and only, a crazy love I cannot really explain.

Scotland is something I have thought of amy times, next April I'll finally go there.

Bertram

 

[taffer]

playboy mansion

😀

 

[nomade]

Wherever life exists!

 

[canonetc]

I'd like to go to Japiur, India, or Kyoto, Japan.

C.

 

[FrankS]

Back to Japan. Even though there are many, many places in the world I have not been, I would choose to go back to Japan, where I have been. It's just so weird and different.

 

[Doug]

There's something about the place of my youth; the one home of my youth. Youth itself has slipped away, and the home too now is gone. My parents chose well their place to settle, a wonderful place on the water (an arm of Puget Sound) a few miles north of Bremerton Washington, with a magnificent yet ever-changing view of the Olympic Mountains across the bay to the west. It will always pull me...

 

[Trius]

Try the "real" highlands of Scotland, North and West of Inverness. The usual tourist trail stops at Inverness and Loch Ness, full of tacky souvenir shops and tourists. Try Torridon, Ullapool, Lochinver area, amazing scenery. Go before the end of June to avoid the dreaded "midgies" microscopic biting flies which will drive you nuts, and get inside everywhere, even the camera when you change lenses!!!! Avoid Isle of Skye on a Sunday, you will be lucky to find anything including toilets open! 🙄

John: May I go to Elgin & the whisky trail? PLEEEEEEEEASE.

In addition to the true Highlands:

Lake Superior (north shore and its tributaries)
Provence

The latter is probably a cliché, but if I could live their in cooler weather, and jet-set between Superior and my 7x great grandfather's stomping grounds in the highlands, sampling the fare at every true pub in the area, I'd be a happy, happy man.

Slainte,

Earl

 

[John Robertson]

i like laphroaig, one can get it here in NL in some pubs. My favourite so far was lagavulin. Last evening i tried Oban for the first time. A little bit sweet for my taste. Islay is certainly on my list.
what's 'peat'??

Peat:- centuries old compressed decayed vegetation, found in boggy ground. It gives the water a distinctive (but not unpleasant) flavour to the water which is very pure and "soft" in any case. The peat is harvested and dried in brick shaped blocks, and is used as fuel. this fuel is used in the malting kilns where barley is processed before turning it into whisky, this adds to the flavour.
NB. Whisky is Scottish spelling
Whiskey is Irish spelling.
We don't use the term "Scotch" very much, and NEVER describe a person as SCOTCH, its Scottish. Using it may result in a Glasgow Kiss!!

Most of the Celtic areas of UK produced it. There is still whisky produced in the Isle of Man and in Wales in very small quantities.
Other countries have tried to produce it, notably Japan (Suntory) but to me it tasted like paint stripper!!
Companies like Dewars and Bells produce it on an almost industrial level, but the quality is still very carefully controlled.
Try some of the liqueurs, Glayva (my favourite) and Drambuie
Great if you have a bad cold, thats my excuse anyway, Must go and take my medicine 😉