Favorite subject to photograph?

Joves wrote:

StephanieW wrote:

Joves wrote: While I shoot mostly scapes and nature. I like to shoot pretty much everything. As far as ruins it depends on what part of the country you are in. I like old ghost towns and such too. Not so many here in the east as there were in Arizona though, or they are now private land, and have been fenced off. Unless you are in a good area for urban exploration, in which case then you have to bend the rules a little to get good captures.

Yes, I LOVE ghost towns. There are quite a few in California and Nevada that I've been to. Really cool. Even those are just a couple hundreds years old at most, though. I love things that are many hundreds if not thousands of years old. That's hard to find here.

Yeah those are few and far between unless you hump around the back country a lot. At the family ranch in Az we have a canyon in the backyard, that has petraglyphs from when the Havasupai were on the move from the southern part of the state. I have yet to find any ruins in it. Another canyon I go to has some, but they are hard to find, and I have not been to some for many years. If you head over to the Sedona area sometime there are several sites with ruins, and then there is Chaco Canyon in NM.

I've been to Sedona! I was only 14 though and wasn't very seriously into photography at the time. But yes I've been there. And thanks for the other recs!

Don Fischer wrote: I don't know where you live but you're missing the boat in this country. Here old ruins are called old homesteads. There are lot's of them all across the country. The South West has old Navajo cliff dwellings to shoot.

I like shooting old homesteads and ghost towns but number one is action photo's of bird dogs and pointing photo's of them.

I didn't say there weren't any, just not many. I've been all over the ghost towns of the southwest. Haven't seen the Navajo cliff dwellings YET but I am well aware of them. Definitely want to make it out there someday.

StephanieW wrote: --snip--

I like to photograph old ruins. Unfortunately I live in the United States and those aren't very common here.

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Have you visited Detroit..?? Or the inner city of any major American city, particularly the northern cities..??


Obviously not the 'ruins' you are talking about . . .just saying.


...tom...

sleeper54 wrote:

StephanieW wrote: --snip--

I like to photograph old ruins. Unfortunately I live in the United States and those aren't very common here.

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Have you visited Detroit..?? Or the inner city of any major American city, particularly the northern cities..??


Obviously not the 'ruins' you are talking about . . .just saying.


...tom...

I don't consider urban decay ruins really. When I talk ruins I mean things that are hundreds or thousands of years old. Though there are some great places in Detroit that Urban Exploration people would get a kick out of. I'd be down for that if I didn't fear falling through a floor or stepping on a rusty nail or something.