Today’s NaBloPoMo Prompt: What place do you want to visit based solely on beautiful photographs that you’ve seen?
Yes and yes. On the one hand I see photos of tropical places and I think “I want to go there, read novels and do nothing.” Fortunately I’ve had the opportunity to do just that. The wife and I have been to Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Puerto Vallarta, and the Riviera Maya. We’re going to San Diego next, and Costa Rica is on our to-do list, along with our fourth Hawaiian island, another Caribbean trip, and someday Miami (maybe even Cuba if that gets all cleared up in our lifetime).
Pretty much any photo of someplace sunny with sand evokes this. My wife wants to try Greece, too, and as long as it’s on the Mediterranean and I don’t have to do anything, I’ll go.
The other yes is for places I see that I want to go photograph. This is pretty much the opposite of sitting around reading novels and doing nothing else. This is hiking and walking for hours and hours. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the photography bug when we went to Singapore, Mumbai, London, and Rome. But I did by the time we got to Paris— I just wish we could have stayed a month.
So, again, any picture of amazing views, architecture, or complicated lighting makes me want to go there and see what I and my camera can do.
I have a friend who’s going to Prague, and I am soooo jealous. And while I eschew going to Australia because I like having an ozone layer above me and I’m terrified of the huge spiders there, you could probably bribe me with a few new lenses and I’d go to New Zealand in a heartbeat.
Today’s NaBloPoMo Photo Prompt: Sun Flare
Maybe a bit too much. Taken outside of the now defunk Mars Hill Church across the street from Trader Joe’s, where my wife was buying forbidden fruit.