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How to Find the Best Photo Opportunities Anywhere Each year millions are spent on travel to "exotic" locations. Why? It's because people naturally find them more photogenic. Just think, a family might spend a year or more planning an overseas trip to an "exotic" location like Newark, NJ! No, I'm not kidding. You see, every city is considered to be an exotic and photogenic one by someone who's from somewhere else. People want to see what's different from their "normal" environment. That's why people from Hoboken would find a trip to the "slums" of Mumbai interesting and would snap hundreds of photos without a moment's hesitation in order to capture every aspect they could of the area's nature. And, you guessed it, people from Mumbai would run out of film or memory chip space trying to photograph all the "exotic" scenes of Hoboken if they could! So there you are, you just found out that you live in an "exotic" location that people would pay thousands to visit and vacation in like this idyllic farm country scene with Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant looming in the background.

There's Nothing Photogenic about This Place

"But," you protest, "there's really nothing photogenic about THIS place!" Au contraire, my friend, "it ain't necessarily so", to borrow a phrase from the musical "Porgy and Bess". Let's have a look then, at how to find the best photo opportunities in any city, town, region or location. "You're joking, here? There's nothing photogenic around here." you might think about the area where you live. Well, if you'll retune your photographic eye and give your area a fresh new look, you'll find there's loads of photographic opportunities, right there in Walterboro, SC (FYI, I hate that place) or wherever you might live. By taking new insight into photographing your town, you can learn to

ferret out what's photogenic in virtually any city. Here are some tips and techniques to help you ferret out the best, most photogenic sites and provide yourself with photo opportunities galore at home, abroad or where ever you might be. With a freshly guided eye on where to look, virtually any locale can yield multiple photographic gems suitable for paying websites, magazines, newspapers and other photostarved sources. A little research will go a long way here. Try these practical and offbeat sources for generating some new digital image ideas no matter how plain, small or lackluster you think your hometown might be. My hometown, colonial York, Pennsylvania has a population of less than 60,000. Likely, the postcards will have key dates, names and facts printed on the reverse side. Check out these sites and take your own photographic series, using different angles, points of view and compositions. Make sure to consider any antique postcards of the city too. You can assemble these postcards into a reference scrapbook of your visit or travels. Search the internet for stories, images and online photos of the city as well. Just type in the city or region name, switch to image search and hit return on your keyboard. You'll then have even more fodder to help get your valentino shoes sale photographic efforts going. There now, that was easy, wasn't it? Even if you've lived all your life in an area, you'll quickly come up with all kinds of information you didn't know. Just outside of York, there's a house made like a shoe that's been there since 1948. (Did you see the Shoe House on TV's "The Amazing Race"? Wonder where the "Old Lady" went? All those kids probably drove her to the grave)

Research Digital Images at the Local Library

You're going to be spending time at the local library, so get to know the reference department well if you don't already. Make friends with the library staff. Ask to see collections of city and regional images. If you don't have a library card, then get one and use it. While you're there, scan the daily papers, locallyproduced magazines and historical archives for more ideagenerating viewpoints and information. Remember, your research will help dig up some potential markets to which you might sell your digital images to. Don't you dare skimp on this step. You'll only be cheating yourself out of potential photo and sales opportunities if you do.

Photogenic Digital Image Scenes from the Radio

Local happenings are often mirrored in some way at national and international levels. You should never make the assumption that a "local" problem is only of interest to local residents.

Case in Point: When houseflies became a health hazard in a http://www.vougers.com/valentino-c-127/ small Colombian town, I queried foreign newspapers and magazines on any possible interest in a series of photographs illustrating a photoessay on what the townspeople did to solve the problem and, in addition, boost the local economy. I received interest almost immediately on the photoessay proposal. Listen to AM talk radio programs and make note of problems, issues and contact information. If there's a way to photographically document what's happening, you'll have an instant outlet for marketing your digital images. Shoot your images from as many different viewpoints as you possibly can while you're "on location".

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