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
I started with Landscapes and Cityscapes, I've recently found I am fairly decent at portraiture and am playing around with shooting street and events.
 
Living in a town (90.000 people) in northern Bavaria. Shooting mostly landscapes/architecture of tourist sites around here. Also doing street, portraits, sunsets.. pretty much everything I can shoot with my stuff and creativity. But I'd love to live in a big city for a certain time to do more street stuff
 
I live in the southern Appalachian mountains and mostly I photograph nature scenes but I do like to go to local fall/spring type festivals when I can and photograph people.
 
i live in a fairly rural town and really enjoy shooting the landscapes including farms, farm equipment hills, etc. but i enjoy shooting in town as well.
 
north central alabama, warrior river:

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i am more apt to shoot man-made "still lifes" and abstracts.
 
i live in the small-ish city of stockton, california and photograph mostly residential and urban space...as well as the people that occupy it. love the opportunity to make my way into the hills or the coast, though! most of what i shoot on a daily basis can be seen here:

http://mapstostockton.tumblr.com
 
Hello everyone!
I live in a town at the NW part of Greece.
I like carrying a camera with me during travels, hikes with my wife and our dog, as well as climbing, and also setting up funny or interesting or surreal images with friends and family enjoying our time...
...lately I am trying to carry my camera more often also in town and get people more familiar with it, and I am getting pretty interesting images... from friends and situations. :)
 
I travel a lot, to urban and very rural locations. A rule is that I usually have only one person in a frame, and typically you cannot see their face. often the person looks as if they're searching for something, or lost. So, street, I guess, in cities, and landscapes when in rural situations.

And double exposures to make things interesting when I'm stuck in suburban hell.
 
Philadelphia is a great place to live and to photograph. Wide variety of people and places in various stages of disrepair. ;-)

Randy
 
Rural. I'm a newspaper photographer, so shoot everything.

My long term personal project is shooting places where people congregate, but the people are no longer there. Trying to convey the sense of their presence after they are gone. After years of shooting for the project, I'm not sure that is really possible; but it keeps me shooting a lot. Lost causes follow me home like sad little puppies. :)
 
I live on an island off the south coast of Japan, working as an English teacher. I like to shoot street, but there's no real opportunity for it, so I turned it around and have been documenting isolation in my island. I haven't quite finished the project yet, but I wrote about why I started it, and have some photos up on the post below. I also go into some tips on what to do for those living in remote areas but like street photography.

Street Photography: What to do outside cities
 
I was living in Seattle for the last 8 years but now I am living in southern Taiwan. Taiwan has some pretty amazing scenery but I mostly spend my time shooting on the street.
 
I live in Seattle and shoot at the Pike Place Market, Fishermen's Terminal and the Ballard Locks. I shoot landscape on the coasts (Wa & Ore) and in eastern Washington.

Best regards,

Bob
 
This year I moved around quite a bit. From Philadelphia, Pa. to New Mexico to Ridgefield, Wa. I like shooting people doing their daily life thing but out here there are not too many people, it's an insular community and it rains so much that I barely even touch my camera anymore.
When I AM shooting what I want to shoot, I'm capturing people doing their thing, wherever they may do it. I have learned over the last 8 months that I prefer the big city for that. Maybe it's a cop out but I think the anonymity of a big city lends itself more to photography, even in the roughest neighborhoods. Out in the country, both in New Mexico and here in Washington, people seem more guarded against having their photos taken as if I have an agenda. Just my observation from the recent half a year.

Phil Forrest
 
Phil_F_NM said:
Out in the country, both in New Mexico and here in Washington, people seem more guarded against having their photos taken as if I have an agenda. Just my observation from the recent half a year.
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Yes, in the big cities, people can assume we are just tourists. No glut of tourists usually in smaller towns.
 
Living in a small 800 year old medieval town in good old Austria with about 11.000 inhabitants. My endless project is to document ALL buildings in town because time & buildings are changing so fast. Also taking pictures in our streets of what is happening all day long. When not doing so I'll stroll around in the countryside through deep green valleys with rushing waterfalls & search for rotten farmhouses and vacant factories.
 
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