Your Daily Bed

[chris_chen]

Have y'all seen the previous thread: "Your Daily Bread"? It solicits the occupation of the contributors and makes interesting reading.

 

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Now I'd like to solicit: Where do you call home? It need not be your origin (add it if you like), but where do you live.

 

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On another note: If you were to return to a spot on this globe that you've been to, where would that be? What are don't miss for the type of photography you prefer to do?

 

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I'll start. My daily bed is where my hat is, currently Krasnodar, Russia. Home Office is Houston, Texas.

 

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My don't miss for street and architecture photography are:

 

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1. Ankgor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia

 

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2. Rome, Italy

 

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3. Anywhere in Spain except Madrid and Marbella

[Niels - NHSN]

My bed is located in Copenhagen, Denmark<p>

 

My don't miss is Tokyo: an absolutely facinating messed up city. But

any <a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=166982">

bathroom</a> in the world will do.

[chris_chen]

I meant three places you've BEEN you'd rate as a don't miss. I'm

trying to scope my next place for holiday.

 

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Neils: Your twisted, why? 8<) nuttin more photogenic in Denmark? ;*)

[fred_sun1]

Niels, are bathroom pictures your PAW (picture a week) project?

[giles_poilu]

Not necessarily for photography but after much travelling in Europe

the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland is probably my most beautiful

area. For photography just give me any major city, especially the

former communist East European ones.

[Niels - NHSN]

That is what I meant: I love Tokyo; I like to go there again; you

should not miss it if you are in the neighbourhood... Nice bathrooms,

weird architechtural contrasts, friendly people, very safe, strange

uncooked food, great local whiskey and beer :-)<p>

Fred, -not quite a formalized POW project, but maybe it should be.

[ray_moth]

I was born in England, where I spent the first 32 years of my life. I

then lived in Sydney for the next 14 years.

 

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My "tempat tidur" (bed) is now in Jakarta, Indonesia (or, at least,

that's where it was when I got up this morning but Jakarta is full of

surprises!) I've been here for over 11 years and I'm still

acclimatising. I have to admit that Jakarta is not the most

photogenic city in the world.

 

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I honestly think that Britain is as photogenic as anywhere I've ever

been and, if I ever leave Indonesia, that's the country where I'd

most like to spend the rest of my days. Having said that, however, I

just remembered that Sydney is wonderful too!

[oliver_s.]

I'm currently living in Munich, Bavaria. Not that I like it, not at

all! It's awfully cold and dark in winter, and if you can't load a

IIIc with Pan F outdoors and fire away with an Elmar, the area's not

worth a picture :-)</p>Places I love:<br>1. <a href="http://ship-of-

fools.com/Mystery/2000/238Mystery.html">Siete Aguas</a>, for relaxing

and nature photography<br>2. Valencia, for street photography (hey,

¡it's just 50km from Siete Aguas!)<br>3. Alicante, when I'm in Martin

Parr mode.

[nesrani]

I live in Italy.

 

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Favourite place to snap - Bombay.

 

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Where would I like to be next? Afghanistan.

 

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For me, don't miss is anywhere big guys are beating up little guys.

[oliver_s.]

To defend myself: the Siete Aguas pics I linked to were taken with a

borrowed P&S on drugstore film, and then someone scanned the prints.

[chris_chen]

Giles,

 

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I've worked for eight months in Bratislava, Slovakia, and the Slovaks

prefer to be known as Central Europeans. Ditto the Poles, Czechs,

Magyars (Hungarians), et al.

 

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Europe extends to the Ural mountains; hence the name Europe, "O"rder

in the "K"ingdom?

[alain_besancon]

Hey Rob, hi all,

 

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I live in France and don't travel very often. One of my best

remembrances shooting with my M was Venice (Italy) and Burano.

I hope you haven't forgot such marvelous places!, I could send you

pictures ;-)

Alain

[john_chan2]

The 3 most memorable places for me:

 

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1) The Cameron Highlands in Malaysia

2) San Franscisco (pretty much all over there)

3) Gore Bay/ Manitoulin Island

 

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Oh, and I've taken quite a few pictures at these venues as well.

[nesrani]

Alain, much as I love Italy and think it wonderful to live in, I've

never taken a memorable picture here (some might say anywhere, of

course!). I don't know why. It just doesn't get my juices flowing.

Maybe I drink too much Teroldego, I don't know.

[alain_besancon]

Bob, you're too lucky: I went two times in Venice (and also Firenze)

with 20 years between. Every time, same attitude, lot of shots, and

Venice by night .... ready to go immediately. "Fortunately", I missed

Burano at night; may be I should be still there!

I accept all invitations for a new journey ;-)

Alain

[Spearhead]

Rob, have you been to Sicily? My brief visit was during terrible

weather, but I found it inspirational despite not being able to

shoot much in the bad weather.<p>

 

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<img src="http://www.spirer.com/images/brella.jpg"><br>

<i>Umbrella, Italy, Copyright 2001 Jeff Spirer</i>

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My favorite place to shoot is Mexico. It's a hallucinatory,

surrealist place that lends itself to photography, maybe a reason

why there has been so much great photography from such a small

country.

[albert_smith]

Born in New Jersey, lived in 6 other States and have settled in

Daytona Beach, Florida.

 

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I love all of Asia, (lived there for 7 years), so my favorite three

places in that region are: Bangkok, Manila and Singapore.

 

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In the U.S., my top three are San Francisco (urban), Southwest desert

States (Scenic), and New England in Autumn.

 

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One wild card spot is London, England... I must have lived there in a

previous life.

[furcafe]

Born in Wisconsin ("the power of cheese"), but have spent most of my

time here in the DC area. Not nearly as well-traveled as my namesake,

but I like Rome, too (not as antiseptic & tourist-centric as Florence

& Venice, nice as they are), & would love to go back. Basically, I

like any city that's big & dense enough to have a subway &/or trolley

system & that also has good food; natural beauty & scenery are icing

on the cake. As far as more obscure places to visit, I liked Central

Asia (e.g., <a

href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation?presentation_id=50432">Uzbekistan</a>)--I

would love to have visited pre-1980 Afghanistan.

[giles_poilu]

Jeff, great pic - that's a "Leica Fotografie" shot if ever I saw one!

[peter_hughes1]

Grew up in Queens, NY, Archie Bunker land, moved to Monterey, CA, 8

years ago for some R&R, now find it difficult to escape. There are

some admittedly nice locations if you're into the "nude in the

landscape" school, though most of the photography done here is as

dull as dust, done by the <i>Ex-Assistants of Ansel Adams Old Boys

Club</i>.<p>Personally, my favorite place to shoot is in the studio.

I miss NYC.

[jackflesher]

Chris:

 

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Los Altos, California is my home. (This also answers your question

from the DR post, so 2 for 1!)

 

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My favorite places to shoot are generally anywhere I've never been

before! However, some places that I keep returning to, or want to get

back to are:

 

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Tuscany and the Morth-Mediteranean coast of Italy, and Capri.

 

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Greece -- any island any time, but Rhodes and Santorini are photo-

favorites.

 

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The south of France -- anywhere.

 

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US places I continually migrate back to: Yosemite National Park,

Joshua Trees National Monument, Death Valley, the Southwest, the

Eastern Sierras, Point Lobos, and some of the North coastal areas.

 

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I find it interesting that many of us have no desire to shoot where

we live -- for example Rob doesn't do much in Italy, and while John

listed San Francisco as one of his favorites, I find it to be a waste

of film for the most part.

 

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:) Cheers,

[djphoto]

Born in Indiana, but have lived in the South all my adult

life--northwest Georgia mountains for the last 25 yrs. The places to

which I would most like to return:

 

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1. Romania

2. The mountains of northern Guatemala

3. Coastal Maine.

[ralph_barker]

I live in San Jose, California, and strangely enough, I'm a

second-generation native Californian (almost everyone here is from

somewhere else).

 

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My "don't miss" photo spots would include:

 

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1. Nature and landscape: the deserts of the Southwest (great old

mining towns, etc.), Yosemite and the eastern Sierras, the California

Coast (Point Lobos, etc.),

 

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2. Architecture: the old cities of Germany (e.g. the walled city of

Rottenburg, destroyed several times and last rebuilt around 1054),

Tokyo (strange architectural contrasts and polite lies), Amsterdam and

Rotterdam (interesting results of strange frontage-based tax laws).

[luther_berry]

A native Texan, I have lived on the Texas Gulf Coast for the last 40+

years including Houston for the last 25 years. Would like to get

away from some of the smog and crowd but have many family and

personal ties here now.

 

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I like anywhere in the Rocky Mountains for scenic photography,

especially the national parks (Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, Grand

Tetons). Hope to make it to Glacier next year. For birds and

wildlife photography, I like any of several great wildlife

refuges/parks in Texas (Atascosa, Santa Ana, Brazos Bend, etc.). LB

[andrew1]

Jeff- I aggree with Giles- beautiful shot from Mexico- definately a

"Leica Fotographie" shot. Thanks.

 

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I live in Brooklyn now, in a really industrial neighborhood, and

unlike lots of you folks, I love to shoot right outside my door. I've

been here in teh is neighborhood six months, and I'm working

on a documentary project here before it gentrifies, as so much of

NYC has been doing.

 

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I grew up in New England and it's one of my favorite places to

shoot- esp. western Mass, Vermont, Maine, esp. along the

coast, but everywhere, really. Also been to 40 states, and

travelled all over the continental US, and Alaska- great shooting

everywhere here. Yes, of course I love shooting in Europe,

where I've wandered a good deal, but there's a lot of material for

good pictures- been working on a documentary project of central

Ohio for ten years now, for instance- started that one in college at

19, and still only getting into the meat of it- there's material to

shoot everywhere.

 

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I suggest some of you folks shake the boredom out of your eyes,

step out your front doors with a camera and some film, and

remember whatever it is about being alive that makes you shoot

pictures. Maybe post some of these new images in the next few

days? If someone tells me how, I'll put my money where my

mouth is and post some pics I shot this week.

 

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Best to all of you.