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
City Dweller, street shooter

City Dweller, street shooter

I live in Pasig City, Philippines which is part of the Nation's Capital (Metro Manila).
I mostly travel around the city to look for interesting venues for street photography but my favorite so far is the place where I grew up and went to college which is called Ortigas Center.

Although when I have the chance, I like shooting the towns and other cities surrounding the Metro :) Especially the beaches!
 
I'm in Suburbia Maximus. When I just want to walk around and shoot, I drive into the city center. People seldom show up in those photos.
 
Miguel-
Thank you for the kind words. While it is nice to travel to "beautifull" locations-for me it is just fine to look and see in your own local environment.
 
I just shoot whatever's in front of my lens that catches my eye. A lot of times that's "street" but often it's something at an event i'm attending, or just hanging out with a friend.
 
I live in a small coastal town awash with cultural and art related activities. The jungle is also a mere few kilometers away. Accordingly I shoot every subject known to man. MF and 35mm film during the day, digital at night.
 
tlitody said:
For some awesome equine photography check out the equus section of Tim Flachs' website. Also look at the bats in his portfolio and other animal shots.
Did you ever think you could show character in a bat?
I think he's a real master of what he does.

http://www.timflach.com/
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Thanks for that.
I bought the book some time ago.Stunning photographics and very interesting from an equine perspective too.
His style seems to have percolated down to all equine photographers now.
 
I live on the outskirts of Seoul, "a megacity with a population of over 12 million, it is one of the most densely populated and largest cities in the world" (Wikipedia) and shoot people, places and things in that city.
 
Countryside, a stone's throw from Stonehenge and nearly always landscape ... because that's what I like to do not because of a lack of other subjects.

I do visit cities occasionally when I can't avoid it, and my local town Salisbury, which is referred to as a city but really only pretends to be! When I travel for photography it usually involves mountains (it's a bit flat where I live) or the coast (it's also a bit dry where I live).
 
chris000 said:
Countryside, a stone's throw from Stonehenge and nearly always landscape ... because that's what I like to do not because of a lack of other subjects.

I do visit cities occasionally when I can't avoid it, and my local town Salisbury, which is referred to as a city but really only pretends to be! When I travel for photography it usually involves mountains (it's a bit flat where I live) or the coast (it's also a bit dry where I live).
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I know stonehenge well. Went to a couple midsummer nights there many years ago when the free festival was still on. All changed now that English Heritage are doing their best to monetize it. Have you documented the building of that rediculous tunnel which seems to be designed purely to stop motorists from seeing stonehenge as they pass by and therefore forcing them to pay to get in. Absolute madness. The bridelways allow free access to quite close by with decent views and those who want to pay to get in can do. But since you can't walk amongst the stones there is no point in paying. It should be free for all except for the car parking.
I used to fish on the avon at stratford sub-castle. and amesbury.
 
tlitody said:
I know stonehenge well. Went to a couple midsummer nights there many years ago when the free festival was still on. All changed now that English Heritage are doing their best to monetize it. Have you documented the building of that rediculous tunnel which seems to be designed purely to stop motorists from seeing stonehenge as they pass by and therefore forcing them to pay to get in. Absolute madness. The bridelways allow free access to quite close by with decent views and those who want to pay to get in can do. But since you can't walk amongst the stones there is no point in paying. It should be free for all except for the car parking.
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Thereby hangs a tale ...

1. Tunnel cancelled due to cost

2. English Heritage invent alternative equally lunatic scheme

3. Alternative lunatic scheme cancelled due to cost

4. English Heritage vow to seek alternative funding for alternative lunatic scheme

25+ years and nothing has happened except millions of pounds wasted on proposals and consultants ... Britain at its best :rolleyes:
 
chris000 said:
Thereby hangs a tale ...

1. Tunnel cancelled due to cost

2. English Heritage invent alternative equally lunatic scheme

3. Alternative lunatic scheme cancelled due to cost

4. English Heritage vow to seek alternative funding for alternative lunatic scheme

25+ years and nothing has happened except millions of pounds wasted on proposals and consultants ... Britain at its best :rolleyes:
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I thought they had mostly finished the tunnel. I'm not upto speed on it since I don't live there anymore. The thing is, that whilst Stonehenge is undeniably an extremely important relic, its simply not a major visitor attraction since it only takes 10 minutes to see it and walk round it. You get a perfectly good view from the bridleways which run right past it and where you can currently park for free. If they were really worried about the traffic congesstion they could have just built a dual carriageway to the south of it a bit further away and left the old road there for people to drive by and use the publc bridelways for parking if they wanted to stop and look. It was/is all about trying to extract money from tourists for something which isn't worth paying for. Avebury is far superior as a visitor attraction where you can spend half day walking round, seeing the museum and the going round the old (haunted :D) manor house and Silbury Hill and west Kennet long Barrow adjacent as well with MArlborough just down the road.
English Heritage should be hung up by their dangly bits.
 
rodgersfoto said:
While it is nice to travel to "beautifull" locations-for me it is just fine to look and see in your own local environment.
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I wish I could do that, but it just doesn't seem to work for me. I suspect it's a matter of temperament. And possibly upbringing: my father was in the Navy, so I was forever travelling as a boy and in my teens.

Cheers,

R.
 
I live in Salt Lake City but I am only 1 mile from the entrance to Big Cottonwood Canyon. I can go to the city or be in the mountains in 3 -4 minutes. I used to shoot a lot of landscapes but now, I shoot mainly in the city in and around industrial areas. I love shooting in small towns as well. - Jim
 
Look around your invironment. It is strong and demands to be photographed- for tomorrow it will change. You are in charge to record it. Take the photograph and live with it. The next moment will be different.
 
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