Where you live and what you photograph

Where you live and what you photograph

  • City dweller photographing mostly street

    Votes: 131 27.9%

  • Suburbs dweller photographing mostly street

    Votes: 52 11.1%

  • Countryside dweller photographing mostly street

    Votes: 16 3.4%

  • City dweller photographing mostly landscape

    Votes: 40 8.5%

  • Suburbs dweller photographing mostly landscape

    Votes: 47 10.0%

  • Countryside dweller photographing mostly landscape

    Votes: 39 8.3%

  • some other mix

    Votes: 144 30.7%
  • Total voters
    469
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I'm curious whether people who live in cities tend to do mostly street photogrpahy because that's what they see every day and if people who live in the country tend to photograph landscapes because that's what they see everyday.
 
Town and Country

Town and Country

State Street in Madison, Falls & Gorge in Grand Falls.

Yours
FPJ
 
I live right in the middle of San Francisco (literally center of the SF map) and commute to the office in financial district / SOMA through downtown with my camera so my film binders are mostly filled with city street shots.
 
You are most likely on the mark theoretically.
I live in the city and the summer heat restricts most of my shooting to my yards. Although I tend to shoot objects/structures. I haven't found my niche and even if I had one, I would hope to experience others. with the exception of commercial/commissioned work. I don't think I would enjoy that. Same with cameras I'm trying everything eventually - at least that's the plan.
 
I live in NYC and I photograph people, still lives, landscapes--all out on the streets and scenes I happen across on the streets. I don't think I do one type of photography (people vs no people) more or less--just depends on the day.
 
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rodgersfoto said:
Live in small city in Indiana. Photograph here and elsewhere in small cities in the Midwest. check out http://rodgersphoto.blogspot.com/
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rodersfoto,

Great photos. I love the grain elevators and the "along the tracks" series. I live in a (technically, near a) small town and I spend a lot of time driving thru towns similar to the ones you photographed. I'm constantly complaining about how boring, photographically speaking, they are but you have proved me wrong; I just need to look harder.
 
Live and work in Hollyweed, or so the sign once said. But I love the mountains and especially the desert. I need to branch out to the sea soon. It's the heat and smog season now, and they burnt my favorite forest down.
 
Live in a small city on the sea. So I shoot the street but also some seascapes, or something in the middle...

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Small village of under 1000 inhabitants -- about 1200 in the whole commune (this and associated villages/hamlets). But I travel a lot.

Cheers,

R.
 
Outer suburbs/country in a holiday/ yachting /horse area.
Shoot in surrounding villages and `cause I`m involved in the local equestrian scene I shoot horses too :)
Street is restricted to meets in Manchester with the RFF crowd.
 
I think growing up in the city has certainly affected my perspective. I love urban landscapes...
 
i live in chicago - shoot street every day in CHI, and photograph live music all over the county.
festivals, parties, shows.
it's all good fun.
and i love working with my m system (m9/m7 w/leicavit)

i use a nikon d3 and various other medium format cameras and a xpan, but i love the m system best. you all know why!

check my work in my sig.
 
I mostly photograph in south-east London but don't really shoot street photography routinely despite having plenty of material literally on the doorstep - I'm more interested in aspects of the urban landscape, particularly the remaining parts of industrial activity along the banks of the Thames as they're quickly being redeveloped into residential areas. I like landscapes of the gritty kind, rather than bucolic pastoral scenes, which where I live I have not got.
 
City, mostly street

City, mostly street

However, the way rural Dutch cities are laid out, I would probably qualify as a suburb dweller in the US.

I shoot mainly street, since my portrait work refuses to take off. I want to shoot outside-the-box kinda work, but most subjects want inside-the-box results... :(

Shifting from portrait to landscape, I wanna be as good as Uncle Earl someday! :D
 
On the shore of the Chesapeake Bay 40 some miles southeast of Washington DC
in the oldest county in Maryland. (Est 1654) This is where the English explorer
Capt John Smith first saw the white cliffs that reminded him of Dover.

This surprisingly rural - considering it's proximity to DC - county had been all tobacco
farms up until about 10 years ago and the literal death of smoking in the USA.
It is now a bedroom community of 84,000, most of whom commute to DC.

The closest settlement - can't call it a town - to our property is
Lower Marlboro... does something in that name ring a bell?
 
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