I agree completely. None of the greatest pictures I've seen taken from Inspiration Point in Yosemite can duplicate the actual experience of getting out of your car in that parking lot for the first time and looking upon the valley.
When I was younger, I always was attracted to the rather standard fare of pictures you'd see in travel magazines. They had to be well done. But a nice picture, even BW, showing what's there to take you away as if you're vacationing there was what made them attractive unlike an overdone photo that almost looks unreal.
Again I totally agree.
Creating images like this feels to me, like the difference between me going on holiday to somewhere amazing and that actually exists. Then becoming completely absorbed into the feel of the place by photographing it and trying to capture its essence as best as I can. To looking at pictures of someone else on an acid trip who doesn't actually exist and on holiday, in a surreal location that doesn't exist either.
The first is really enjoyable, interesting, fulfilling and life enhancing, the second is just meh and leaves me cold, but oh man look at the colours...
So as you may have gathered, this kind of stuff is not for me and I much prefer reality these days, as my acid tripping days are long, long gone, like about 50 years long gone.
Now where did I put my crystal meth pipe, Mmm, I wonder if H borrowed it again for his afternoon nap photo shoot?
Dave
