What happens when you take a road trip to a different state or country? One of life’s big questions is “what do I see?” The truth of the matter is, you probably won’t see much of anything – unless it’s a pretty big deal: a new restaurant, a new view of a beautiful beach, or a new building. But when you see them, it can be transformative.
I love that you brought up the rural photography. I’ve been photographing for almost 15 years now and my work has changed as much as the landscape has. I’ve been doing a lot more and having a lot more success in that regard.
While I agree that there are many “little” things in life that are worth doing, it’s hard to argue that a lot has not changed. I think that rural photography is one of those things that has changed the most. We may not be able to get people to go out and buy a new camera every time we see a new field of corn, but we’ve made a lot of advances in the field.
In rural settings, I would say we have more to offer a photographer than we ever have in urban settings. Its good to know that not every one is out in the fields every day shooting everything that goes up their nose. For me, though, it seems like a good thing to know, especially since I’m starting out and finding these areas where its hard to find anyone with a camera.
I agree that we don’t “have” a lot of good landscapes and that being a photographer is a little out of my skill set. However, there are some things that just aren’t done well enough that I think we should give it a shot. We have a great new feature that lets us share our work with the world! I just found this little gallery on Flickr that lets me post my own photos with comments and tags.
One of those things is finding the perfect location to get some great images. I’m not saying that every place is the right one, but this is a really great one that I found online. It’s not very professional, but the photos are great.
You can find the same location in a number of other ways. You can post your photos on a blog, a Flickr group, or on Flickr itself. Flickr lets you save your images as albums and tag them with keywords that make them easier to find. You can also create a Flickr account yourself to put your photos online. The problem is that Flickr is still a relatively new service.
Flickr is a bit of a mess right now. It’s still a beta service, but there have been some major developments that will make it much better. For instance, you can now set your privacy preferences on Flickr, and get the option to hide a lot of the stuff you don’t want your photos to show up in search results. There’s also a lot of really cool stuff coming in the future.
I don’t really use Flickr much these days, but there are some good things coming in the future. For instance, I just made a Flickr account for my photos. I’ve also been using it to make a new blog. Here’s a few pictures that I’ve been using Flickr to make.
Flickr is basically the social network for photographers. To make a Flickr account you give your photo to a Flickr user, who then uploads it to Flickr. The photos themselves are all public. The user can also put up photos in Flickr’s Picasa image gallery. The only privacy setting you have is “hide my pictures.