If you could go anywhere...

[dostacos]

Actaully, if I could go anywhere, it would have to be to a place as far from another human as possible. Just to see how it feels. Take a few pictures, walk around a bit, and get on back into the world again.

that would be the Big Island of Hawaii, one of the lava flows has a glassed in area showing foot prints in the Lava, [ouch!] it is like the dark side of the moon. if you get a little ahead or behind your group, well that is just what you asked for 😀

 

[dostacos]

all expenses paid??? how about the MOON? 😀

more down to earth, I would return to Israel, traveling with my cameras shooting everything.

 

[c.poulton]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3070895.stm


Yes, you would need to be very careful, I think.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

Wow, that's really terrible! - Maybe I'll change my mind over Iran?

I guess that you have to be very careful where you point your camera these days - even in 'free' western countries, taking photographs in 'sensitive' areas can land you in prison.

Do you remember the case of the Greek authorities arresting 12 British plane-spotters on spying charges for taking pictures at an air show in 2001?

Of course, now it is even more difficult. I know that here in London it is difficult to take photographs on the underground without causing suspician and anxiety.

Sign of the times......

 

[Carrotblog]

If I could go anywhere, where would I go?


I'm working this out....


Many of the answers here choose to travel in outer space. I'm finding inner space a more rewarding journey....


http://carrotblog.livejournal.com

I have a bog. I am a blog.

Carrotblog

xoxoxo

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

All expenses paid, I'd spend a year in Paris. Enjoying the food, the language, the culture, the museums and art galleries and the photogenic streets.

Gene: what do you want for Christmas? 😉 (other than an all-expenses paid year-long trip in Paris)

If I could go anywhere, I'd be in Paris in a heartbeat (ok, after packing and the 8-hrs. flight); I'd also be in Barcelona; back in my native city in México (not Mexico City), and India. Perhaps Bulgaria. Cairo. Tanzania (not Tasmania). Vienna, Salzburg. Prague. Perú.

:bang: What was the question, again?

 

[FrankS]

Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankS
"Fresh eyes" can be achieved by travel to a new location, or by mind shift.
Frank

Well put!
Chris

Thanks. Unfortunately, the easy way is expensive and the cost-free way is difficult!

 

[Marc-A.]

Afghanistan - every time I see it on the TV I am astounded by the physical beauty of the landscape.

The same for me (Afghanistan & Iran), but not only for the landscape; I would like to photograph farmers ploughing rich lands; and shepherds crossing cristal clear rivers with their goats, or resting under a tree; and farmers' pupils running down hills with their bags; or merchants travelling on the Silk Route ... and finally the people of the thousand-year-old cities like Kadahar and Ispahan (maybe the oldest one in the world)... but I don't think goig over there is the best idea for the moment, alas!

 

[drmatthes]

First place I'd like to have the time to go (work's been eating me up these days):

Outside the front door!

Second place:

Berlin. Still the ever-changing city it has been for decades. One must have an eye for the special mediocrity and the rare maxima and minima about it, though.

Third place:

Well, just anywhere else.

A "simple" way of accomplishing this is belonging to a minority that is being threatened or expelled, like Helmut Newton, Robert Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt... you name them.

Or think of the humble hero of the great Brazilian movie "City of God", who, as a teenager living in the favela, keeps dreaming about a camera and a career as a photographer. When he manages the former, he finds his motifs outside his front door, again...

Let's go outdoors, career may follow!

Jesko

 

[peterm1]

Definitely Budapest for street work. I went there in the late 1990s and would go back in a flash. Check out these shots on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/groups/budapest/pool/

And the thumbnail links are to a couple I took. My work and nothing special but it at least gives an idea of what someone better than me could do. A very photogenic part of the world.

 

[mac_wt]

To somewhere where there isn't a car in every picture I take. I agree with Bill that change of location will probably not improve my photography. I find it a lot easier to take pictures in an environment that I know well. But I'm getting tired of all the cars in Belgium. They're simply everywhere.

Wim

 

[Zack]

id love a year in new york, it just seems like every moment is a decisive one.

 

[oftheherd]

I just returned from a trip to the ancient cliff dwellings of the ancesteral Puebolan peoples in s.w. Colorado. The quiet beauty is a relief from modern times. My wife and I will go back for a third time, I'm sure. Other than that, we have a passion for the pyramids. I have learned that carrying 5 cameras and lenses is a bit too much. 2-3 with 2 lenses each is enough for this 60 year old and to hike for miles.

Stopped in there over 25 years ago on a driving trip the wife and I took all through the US west. I also found that a fascinating area. Interesting and picturesque. I took Kodachromes and I think maybe some b/w with my Super Press 23. A lot of gear even 25 years ago. Probably wouldn't want so much gear myself now either.

 

[venchka]

See my avatar? Hopefully someday my boat and I will sail up and/or down the Inside Passage. For an encore, bicycle from the Four Corners region to Mt. Robson Provincial Park, B.C.

 

[jaapv]

Actaully, if I could go anywhere, it would have to be to a place as far from another human as possible. Just to see how it feels. Take a few pictures, walk around a bit, and get on back into the world again.

I know just the place for you - but I won't post it 😉 😀
Or maybe I will