That is an astonishing image. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>*
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 2:11 PM Bob W PDML <pdm...@icloud.com> wrote: > > > > > On 19 Apr 2023, at 18:56, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On 19/04/2023 14:59 coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: > >> In Sept we’re going to Yellowstone for 1 week followed by the Grand > Canyon for another week. > >> At least with digital I don’t have to worry about running out of film. > (Just battery life.) Except for the 6x7. At 10 shots per roll one must be > judicious. > >> So the question is: What should I shoot? Not just the same things that > a million other tourists have shot, that’s for certain. > > > > Nude selfies. > > -- > > Oh dear, I hope it doesn’t come to that. > > I remember reading something about a million years ago by one of the > Magnum or Nat Geo photographers who described what they did when they were > photographing a place that’s been done to death already. He would buy a > load of postcards which showed the classic views, and spend a day or two > going to those places, photographing them, and getting them behind him, out > of the way. Then he could start looking at what’s in between them, that the > tourists etc don’t look at. > > You can also make an effort to look at the stale subjects with a different > eye. My favourite example of this is a photo of the Taj Mahal by Steve > McCurry, to which I provide a broken link in an attempt to stop the server > from blocking this email: > > htt ps:// > static.nationalgeographic.co.uk/files/styles/image_3200/public/21246.webp?w=430&h=323&q=100 > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
