What would you photograph if you could photograph anything?

tedwin said:
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.
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I'm glad that some of you answered honestly. :) joke ;)
 
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Id spend my time photographing the White Spirit Bears on the British Columbia coast.Sorry no rangefinders only large telephoto lens and dslrs.
 
I often watch travel shows and wonder how the host could be walking around in such amazing places without a camera. Europe, Asia, South America, it doesn't matter, I would like to be a travel photographer.

In one episode I have to admit Rick Steves was carrying a Leica on a stroll through Scotland, or maybe it was Wales.
 
Pitxu was told to keep away from Roger Hicks' threads.

Look up Basque and Aquitaine and see how the two of them have a problem over disputed territory.

However, they are both British guys living in that region so history should really play no part.

But they are not good friends.

Pitxu seems to have gone for now, which is a shame, although Roger is still active at RFF.
 
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rover said:
I often watch travel shows and wonder how the host could be walking around in such amazing places without a camera. Europe, Asia, South America, it doesn't matter, I would like to be a travel photographer.

In one episode I have to admit Rick Steves was carrying a Leica on a stroll through Scotland, or maybe it was Wales.
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I saw Ricks show this morning and have always wondered the same thing. I wish I had his job. I'd carry a camera. It's still a good show.
 
I would like to stay some weeks with a non discovered tribe in the amzonas (if there is any tribe left) and make some photos there. After that I left them without having influenced their lives (which is of course not possible).
 
craygc said:
The Northern Silk Road through China, which travels through the Chinese province of Gansu, then follows the mountain ranges to the north of the Taklamakan Desert into Kashgar in the most north-west province of Xinjiang. Then turn south to the Karakoram Highway down into Pakistan.

Should be able to waste a year there... :D
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I went the other way round: Kashgar, Urumqi, Turpan, Bezeklik ... back to Beijing. But no Angelina, alas. Taklamakan means something like "place you go in but don't come out". Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon landscape.
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
Look up Basque and Aquitaine and see how the two of them have a problem over disputed territory.
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Dear Jon,

Not really disputed, and certainly not a problem; as you said of the Alentejo, it's just that I like the old names, and 'Aquitaine' is more specific than 'France', just as 'Alentejo' is more specific than 'Portugal'. Aquitania has varied enormously in size from its Roman roots to its present (much reduced) size, and I find it interesting that there are so many bits of English history here. I'm told (though I have never verified) that Thouars, a few miles north of where I live, was the last major town of the Aquitaine to fall to the French in the Hundred Years' War.

I certainly don't support an independent Aquitaine, any more than I support an independent Cornwall. But equally, I like the part of France where I live, just as I am fond of my native land. It's probably easier (and certainly cheaper) to live here than in Kernow. I'm very keen on a shared European heritage: the church in which I was christened in Cornwall, St. Dennis (or St. Denys) was a daughter parish of St. Denis outside Paris. At least, again, that's what I was told as a small boy: I've never verified it.

Cheers,

Roger
 
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If I could have a year off with my camera, I would like to travel around India and Africa. I'm not that brave or intrepid, So I would avoid the dangerous places ;), but the little I have seen of these places leaves me wanting a lot more.

The only other assignment I would like during this period is the opportunity to spend a a day on a fashion shoot (Or any kind of shoot) with Kate Moss. I think she has the most amazingly photographable face....
 
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