Anyone been somewhere where there is nothing to take pictures of?

dewmuw wrote:
Coventry!

Now just hold on a minute, there, buddy--I spent twenty years in Coventry and..... Oh, crap! You're right.

Terry

In situations like that and I been there too, go for macro, there is a whole world under your feet or on a tree. Sometimes that will inspire you for other photos too.

I was about to say what Bluetit did - try macro. There are great photos everywhere, sometimes they pop out, often they have to be made. For example the idea for this picture came to me while I was having a drink and playing chess with my partner.

If you are walking around an not seeing anything put on a macro lens and change your perspective. If you broaden your horizons enough there is always something.

of course if you don't particularly want to broaden your horizons you may draw a blank.

And if you don't have a macro lens, just take pictures of the nothing, and then don't review any of them for at least a week, might surprise yourself.

I live there.

I grew up in Northern Nevada. My teenage years were spent on barren mountain sides, dried up creeks/rivers and hundreds of square miles of sage brush. To be honest, I hated it. Once I moved away and went back to a friends wedding, my girlfriend was awestruck at how beautiful the landscape was. Same thing happened to me. The first time I went to northeastern pennsylvania and saw that there were different kinds of trees that turned different colors and everything was green instead of covered in dirt, i about lost it. I thought I was in heaven. My friends daughter hated it. She thought it was too plain.

Moral of the story, (as I'm sure everyone has said), what's not beautiful to you may be beautiful to someone else. I have a hard time finding motivation and/or inspiration to go out to take pictures of this barren landscape because I'm really tired of it. Therefore, I do not think any shots of this area are worthy. Someone else might love the photos.

I have also found (as mentioned several times) that taking a bunch of photos and forgetting about them for a week or few will ususally result in a few shots that aren't too bad. It certainly helps if I forgot I took them, but either way... take a bunch of photos... dump 'em on your PC and forget about them for a week or two. Go back and take a look. You will definitely be surprised.

i just went through a six week photographer's block.......and i live in an area where phtog addicts would die for...(south fla.....lauderdale, south beach, miami, etc.).........then....​.i just returned from philadelphia.....got over a dozen 'keepers'.......train station, art gallery area, park.........just needed to 'break loose'........don't worry........the INSPIRATION will return........

PS: i'm leaving for athens & venice next week......anybody out there live in one of those areas.......please respond.....
richard

For me, it's not so much of not finding things to shoot, it's that I've become more critical of what I take and wanting to be more creative gets in the way. I've become my worst critc!