Admitedly I travel far and wide around my end of North America to find things that interest me and of course hopefully stir my customers in a way that they will purchase an image. There is nothing like sharing something that made me excited with others and then have those others purchase a piece for their homes.
So being reasonably well travelled I have noticed lately that I will be on some photographers WEB site viewing an image when an alarm goes off in my head that says.... "I know this spot". I don't mean your everyone has been there spots like the Oxebow Bend in the Grand Tetons or Lake Louise in Alberta. I mean an out of the way place, sometimes in a forest or along a country road. A spot that is not a giant draw for photographers. It's an odd feeling that I have been experiencing more and more.
Here is an example. I was looking through photographs taken by the famous photographer Tony Sweet. He has a wonderful gallery of images of the Palouse on his site. Well I have been to the Palouse and spent days driving up and down every dirt path and back road in the region. So as I scanned his images, I see one of this lonely tree on the side of a farmers field. DING, the alarms went off and I thought... "I know this spot".
I spent a couple of minutes sifting through my files from the Palouse and sure enough, there was the same lonely tree in one of my images!! Does it mean I have no life that I can identify a lonely tree on the edge of a field from some lost back road 1000 miles from home in a different country even?
Here are the two shots for comparison.
Tony Sweets shot of the tree.
Same tree, different composition. Weird isn't it?
Brent
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