Digory wrote:
"What Part Of The World Has Been Your Photographer's Paradise?"
Surely the answer is 'all around you'.
As far as I personally am concerned, I could take chocolate box photos of a mountains, or trees, or whatever, every day of the week - and they ultimately don't really mean much.
But if I take a photo of something really mundane, like passengers getting on and off a bus in a local street, in 20, 30, 40 years time that photo will become a little moment in time caught on camera - whereas the chocolate box photos of mountains or trees will still mean just as little (and there will be 1000's of better ones taken by other people anyway!).
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Your post here reminds me of a comment in a book on photography I read over 30 years ago. It said your backyard is the other side of the world to someone on the other side of the world.
Your comment about passengers and the bus and looking at the photos years later reminds me of years ago I used to take pictures of movie posters. I was developing some that were nearly 20 years old one time in a public darkroom and one of the guys in there exclaimed "hey that was a good movie". And went on to talk about. I had not seen the movie but seeing the photo made him happy. :-)