The Futurist
One habit I have gotten into whenever I travel to a different city is I tend to find one (or two) features of that city and really hone in on them. For example, during my first visit to Paris I spent a week finding every angle of the Eiffer Tower that I could. With New York it has been the Brooklyn Bridge. And during my most recent trip to San Francisco it became the Transamerica Pyramid. I find that having something like this to focus on helps me keep an eye out for peculiar angles I might have otherwise missed. Part of that is the process of photographing something you are so intent upon. For example, if my goal is to find as many different perspectives on this building as I can discover, I'll walk extra lengths around it, or I'll make sure to keep its location vaguely on my radar so that I'll glance down every alley that leads off in that direction just in case there is an unexpected view. The goal is not to produce a collection of images of this building (or that tower, or that bridge) but rather give me something in an unfamiliar city to pay attention to and become familiar with. And when you are a bit adrift in a strange town, visually overwhelmed with trying to figure out how to sort it all out photographically, I find that this technique can help give me solid creative ground to start to work from.
Reality So Subtle 6x6 pinhole
Kodak Ektar 100
The Futurist
One habit I have gotten into whenever I travel to a different city is I tend to find one (or two) features of that city and really hone in on them. For example, during my first visit to Paris I spent a week finding every angle of the Eiffer Tower that I could. With New York it has been the Brooklyn Bridge. And during my most recent trip to San Francisco it became the Transamerica Pyramid. I find that having something like this to focus on helps me keep an eye out for peculiar angles I might have otherwise missed. Part of that is the process of photographing something you are so intent upon. For example, if my goal is to find as many different perspectives on this building as I can discover, I'll walk extra lengths around it, or I'll make sure to keep its location vaguely on my radar so that I'll glance down every alley that leads off in that direction just in case there is an unexpected view. The goal is not to produce a collection of images of this building (or that tower, or that bridge) but rather give me something in an unfamiliar city to pay attention to and become familiar with. And when you are a bit adrift in a strange town, visually overwhelmed with trying to figure out how to sort it all out photographically, I find that this technique can help give me solid creative ground to start to work from.
Reality So Subtle 6x6 pinhole
Kodak Ektar 100