re: #74 jaunte

It’s funny how many old tinted postcards form early in the last century exist of virtually the same views that we’re shooting today.

I know of landscape photographers, who for the very reason you cite above, avoid the better known places.

One of the better (IMO) local landscape photographers (who is an “amateur” but his photos are shown around town) visits the Grand Canyon. Now, that place has been photographed a zillion times, but it is so large that the number of different compositions is astronomical, so it is possible to find something unique.

OTOH, there are places like, say, the Statue of Liberty that probably allows for no novel photographs, simply because it has all been done before.

Which I think gets at an important point - why photograph? I know for myself that the images I treasure the most now are those with people (or places) in them that have been important to me.