標題: Click! Let the world enjoy your travel photos [打印本頁] 作者: tiffiant 時間: 2012-1-31 06:52 標題: Click! Let the world enjoy your travel photos
Click! Let the world enjoy your travel photos
Travellers who obsessively take photos are nothing new. For years, endless slide shows of famous European sightseeing spots and churches held yawning captives in living rooms across the nation. What is new is the growing popularity of travelling primarily to expand one's photo collection with some favourite facets of the world.
The Internet has allowed amateur photographers an outlet to publish their results, which has, in turn, encouraged others to begin their own weird and wonderful anthologies. Almost anything can appeal to someone with a camera, an Internet connection and an obsession.
For instance, we recently received by chain email an inspiring collection of photos of pathways of every conceivable kind. There were roads, forest footpaths, water channels, railroads, stairways and tunnels in rocks, hedges and one in a forest canopy.
A National Geographic email this week also had a smattering of exactly the kinds of collections that are popping up. It highlighted a collection of sea urchins and profiled one photographer whose mission is to collect pictures of as many animal species as possible.
Another traveller published in Nat Geo, cave diver Christian Vizi, tantalized readers with one picture from his collection. He is recording the beauty of the cenotes of the Yucatan, a hobby that thrills Rick, who loves these subterranean ecospheres.
The most beautiful are caverns with crystal clear lakes with a sunny hole at the top. Some have islands or connecting caves that tourists can explore. All are a welcome respite from the tropical heat and a wonderful place to lunch or spend the afternoon swimming underground in filtered sunlight. (http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/best-wallpapers-2011/#/cenotes-yucatanpeninsula_36084_600x450.jpg).
We know one person (and suspect several others) who unceasingly snaps cats all over the world and have seen an album of the shadows cast by famous buildings.
Barbara captures "lambscapes". New Zealand, home to millions of woollies, was heaven. Her most beloved photo stop was at a valley full of hundreds of recently separated weaning lambs. Their heartbreaking cacophony, crying for their mums, would have made a wonderfully evocative short video clip.
This new sport is frequently athletic, sometimes extreme and occasionally deadly. Practitioners troop through jungles, sprint to outlooks or hang from mountainsides in their dedication to expose the rest of us to slices of life from around the planet. A few have reached too far. Years ago, a friend's father backed off the roof of his house to his death trying to improve a photo of a city.
So be careful, but keep your photographs coming. Folks who are homebound by jobs, ill health and age or who finally have run out of travelling cash, need you to inspire us with the beauty, the surprise, the downright quirkiness of what you are collecting.作者: tiffiant 時間: 2012-1-31 06:53
