What would you photograph if you could photograph anything?

gb hill said:
I would buy one of the new Indian Chief motorcycles built here in N.C. & cruise around to biker events & places across the USA. Meeting people & visiting places off the main strip photo-documenting lives & later publishing a book.
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There is lots to photograph at the biker events been to a few had a blast.
 
gb hill said:
Roger I would hav a custom made saddle bag for my gear. These Indians are quieter than a Harley & less vibration. These motorcycles are hand built. . .
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It's still a pretty unforgiving environment, and a V-twin with that sort of capacity is going to vibrate. I'll cheerfully accept that it's better than a Harley, but that's not saying much! Heskeths are hand-built, too (and I'd rather have one), but once again it's still a big V-twin.

The place to carry cameras is in the tank bag, and the magic thing to remember is that while high-density foam protects against knocks, low-density foam protects against vibration.

If you ever do try to combine a long motorbike ride with photography, you might find it interesting to look at:

http://www.semiadventuroustraveler.com/ps photo-moto.html

Cheers,

Roger
 
I'd rather like to buy a round the world ticket and schedule myself to visit some of the great art and photography galleries, and along the way use my camera.
 
A couple of years ago, after being made redundant, I had a lot of money and a lot of time so was looking at flying to Vladivostok then walking/public-transport back home (in Holland, though I am English).

Unfortunately(?) I proved to be too employable and quickly found another job. So my plan would be to do it right this time, and photograph people from everywhere between Japan and Lapland, then down home again. It might take more than a year though, as I want also to plan in staying more than a year somewhere North of Rovaniemi. That might be a separate project - and Finnish is harder than Russian.

Doesn't beat Lhasa though.
 
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I'd become a skateboarding photographer, doing on-location work. I've always loved to watch skateboarding (I'm unfortunately quite terrible at doing it) and there would be so many opportunities to travel.

I wonder how hard it would be to do skateboard photography on 8x10? I've always wanted to try large format... :)
 
If I had unlimited resources for a year, I'd photograph people enduring poverty and dictatorial regimes all over the globe.

I'd visit Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Haiti, Uzbekistan (for the under-aged-children mandatory cotton picking season), North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, countries like that.

Would be shooting Leica, Hexar AF and Nikon FM2 exclusively, shipping the films home every once in a while.

Currently planning a trip to Rumania, to photograph the old Saxon towns there, before all Saxon-descent inhabitants have left for western Europe. Probably next year summer!
 
Gb hill

The Indian looks great I quite fancy one myself. You could always carry your gear in your pockets if you kept it to a minium
My 1930 AJS single vibrates like hell. It even unsrews its own nuts and bolts .. I have an ever growing list of bits I have had do a U turn for. Any camera though is in my pocket or my despatch rider style bag and has survived so far.

Chris
 
Roger Hicks said:
Dear Fred,

Lhasa. Assuming I could get in. Given that I'm a running dog of the reactionary splittist Dalai Lama clique, that might be interesting...

Tashi delegs,

Roger
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I've always wanted to go there.

On a different note, I would like to photograph Monica Bellucci, nude.
 
CLE-RF said:
Currently planning a trip to Rumania, to photograph the old Saxon towns there, before all Saxon-descent inhabitants have left for western Europe. Probably next year summer!
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Are these the Sieben Buergen? They are well worth visiting, but the 'Saxon' history is, from my own observation, no longer very significant -- and I doubt the 'Saxons' are about to leave en masse. Some of the towns are pretty small, too, though Sibiu/Hermannstadt in particular is impressive. There are also 'Saxon' towns in Slovakia (e.g. Levoca, Kezmarok).

Cheers,

Roger
 
What a thought provoking question. Some great replies too. I want to lean on the worldwide art gallery tour, come people in poverty, come Trans Siberian train, come friends and family documentation side of things but it would be a lie.

I'll be honest. I would like to travel around old towns in europe, from Norway to Spain to the middle and to the east. Photographing stunningly beautiful young women with typical looks for each part of the world. Getting a feel for the place, the culture and the architecture. All through the eyes of an individual sharing the experience with a partner. From a warm smile peeking out of winter clothes high on a mountain, to casually drying off out of a shower in a hot tiled hotel room somewhere by the Mediterranean.
 
I'd photograph the ceremony of the Lottery commissioner handing me my jackpot prize ceremonial check.

After that I'd think a bit more clearly of what else I could photograph.
 
I would tie my three great loves together-- making things that fly, making pictures, and making poems. I'd spend some time back in the places where I grew up and don't see enough anymore, and some in the places that I would like to eventually be my home at some point (most particularly Belize, Crete and southeast Ireland).

I'd wake up early, have coffee, and take pictures of the catch coming in (and then eat some of it). I'd spend the mornings writing, as I always try to make time to do, and spend the afternoons dangling cameras of various kinds from homemade kites and gliders--as well as catching my wife from every angle possible (my life's goal is to, over the course of the next 40 years or so, hopefully document every inch of her from every angle).

Luckily, there's a lot of "synergy" (as I'd say at my day job when I'm making fun of our superiors) between this stuff. Each feeds the visualization and inspiration of the others.
 
There's nothing quite like the sound of an Indian, a sound that strikes at the heart of every living being in the vicinity.

I would like to do the ride I did 4 1/2 years ago, Chicago to Sturgis for the Black Hills Rally, was the most awesome experience of my life. So far.

So yes, I'd like to perhaps ride from the east coast to Sturgis and then potter around and so forth until the Sundance festival. Yeah!!! :)
 
Get into a time-machine, and photograph the history of the earth, starting with the dinosaurs! What a photo-essay that would be!
 
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