There are certain subjects that I really like to photograph. I will seek them out and try to capture a variety of images of them. This is especially true when I am pursuing photography in the area where I live.
Sometimes when we travel we can get excited about photographing new things. And new things are great and should be celebrated. But don’t forget about the things you love already.
When you travel don’t forget to come back to the things you love but can now find in new locations. Finding the familiar in the new can take your photography in different directions. It can keep you connected to home and connected to what you already know and love in photography. And it can also give you a way to experience and show off the things you love in new and different ways.
Taking some time to focus in on your favorite subjects that are presented in new and different ways can be really interesting. A new location may provide you opportunities to photograph a subject you love in a composition you have never seen before.
Trees
I always love photographing trees. Trees may seem ubiquitous. Like they are nothing special.
But for me a well placed tree or trees can make all the difference. A photograph my highlight a tree against a very different type of landscape than what I regularly see in my photography at home.
The subject might be the tree, but the environment and background might be something completely different. I can look up into the pines and see that pattern branches and needles make as the open up into the clear blue sky. Focus the camera on a section of tree trunk and branches but compose it with a mountain range in the background. Search out the one lone tree along the coast of Maine and photograph it with the unending seas in the background. Feature tree trunks in the fall but photograph it with a slow shutter speed so the colorful autumn leaves are in motion.
There are so many ways to incorporate our old favorites into our new explorations.
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