Where have you left your heart?

[rogueish]

The modern heart of the business district of any fair sized city.
The old (older the better) quaters of any village,town or city.
Tobermore, Mono Cliffs Provincal Park, anywhere on the shores of Lake Superior, Egan Chute, Bancroft, Cafe Ole ...
Sorry, got carried away. I think (after all that) that my heart lays in jumping in the car, throwing the map out the window, and seeing where the road takes me. (and buying a new map to find my way home)

 

[clogz]

To quote Theodore Roethke: I learn by going where I have to go. Wise words.

 

[John McCallum]

To quote Theodore Roethke: I learn by going where I have to go. Wise words.

True indeed.

 

[clogz]

Yeah, I wake to sleep and take my waking slow, I learn by going where I have to go.
What if you could make a picture with this in mind?
Hans

 

[Doug Bennett]

New Orleans. My wife and I lived there for 6 years ('85-'91), and our first child was born there. We left to return to Huntsville, Alabama, where my wife's family lives, where the schools are better, etc.

Now, 13 years later, I still miss it terribly. We always lived in Mid-City, out around the art museum, and I worked at the convention center downtown on the river. My daily commute, by car, bus, or bicycle, was down Esplanade Ave and through the French Quarter. It was always lovely, and on the frequent foggy mornings it was magical. I loved the food, the music, the vibrant culture, the architecture. It was, believe it or not, the most family-friendly place, and the people are gracious and open-minded.

Unfortunately, this was before my photographic obsession began. We visit frequently, and it's a photographer's dream. I will live there again.

 

[blansky]

Luckily, I didn't leave it anywhere. I've heard it is hard to function very well without it.

There are a few places I really enjoyed though. I loved the beach in LA in the 80s. I loved the downtown of Portland Oregon. I loved Banff in the Rocky Mountains. I love Hawaii. I love where I live in wine country.

If I was to come close to losing it, it would be to my beautiful wife, who where ever she is, is perfect for me.




Michael McBlane

 

[Tom Stanworth]

Namibia. After covering 8000km ther in '96 I dont think I will ever be able to see an image of the country without it hurting. I am completely in love with Southern Africa (Zim is obviously not the same these days...), but Namibia blows you away. I think to fully enjoy it you have to get sandy and sweaty. Think tents and Barbques every night (with jackals hovering, hoping for a nibble of the Kudu steak), not hotels and aircon. The Dead Vlei in particular is something else. Anyone and agnostic as I gets really confused in a place like this. It makes you feel like you are being watched by your creator. The smell of it keeps returning whenever I am reminded of it. I would love to live there for a year and get it out of my system.

 

[brimc76]

Algonquin Provincial Park and east into the Ottawa Valley is my spot. The colour in the fall, the quiet of deep snow in the winter, the people and old settlements along the Opeongo Trail, I look forward to going back every year.

 

[JMcLaug351]

Boston. A walk along the Charles River in the summer with hundreds of sail boats on the wide part of the river. Down Charles St. to Beacon Hill. European style buildings built around gardens. Flower pots on every doorstep and on the window ledges. Black iron railings glistening in the sun. Oh, and bricks, bricks and more bricks. Brick designs on the buildings on the sidewalks. patterns and murals of brickwork.

Streets and buildings that predate the United States by 150 years. Modern streets and buildings that seem to blend so well with the rich history of this place.

In the winter a light snowfall will trace out all of the intricate details of this place and make it all the more beautiful. In the public garden (near, but not part of the Boston Common) Ice skaters twirl and move in all directions where during the summer the famous Swan Boats paddle back and forth to the joy of the children riding on them.

I could go on but I think you get the picture. I know I often do.. get the picture that is.

John

 

[Helen B]

Same as Ole, the coast of Norway. Just magic. But the west coast of Scotland isn't so bad either, for sailing and climbing. Or the north-east coast of England, in a gentler way. Somebody said 'For one's old age there's always the Arctic.' So Svalbard.

Helen

 

[clogz]

Left my heart? What a load of rubbish! It'll be there wherever I am and the light is right.
Hans

 

[Alex Hawley]

I can be found on the backroads, in the small towns, and the two-lane highways of the rural West and MidWest. Last Fall, we drove from our home in Kansas to Chicago and back to see our daughter's graduation. I was dying to stop and photograph the many beautiful barns and landscapes along the way.

 

[John McCallum]

Left my heart? What a load of rubbish! It'll be there wherever I am and the light is right.
Hans

Now don't go all sentimental on us Hans .

 

[removed account4]

not sure if i left my heart there, but ...

back in 1988, i drove/camped out across the usa from rhode island to the south dakota / wyoming border. i really miss seeing rolling hills of the praire countryside, fields of soybeans, enormous grain elevators that look like gothic cathederals glistening in the afternoon sunlight, and abandoned homesteads along the interstate.

 

[Sherrie Kuehlein]

Right now my heart goes everywhere with my son. He just turned a year old and is changing way too fast. In the early months of his life I was too busy trying to learn how to be a mother to really pick up a camera. And then all of a sudden he was six months old, and I realized "Oh my god, the last time I shot black and white of him was when he was three days old!", and now I just shoot him constantly, which I am sure is overcompensation for the fact that part of me just aches to return to those days when he was tiny (and immobile!) and captures those moments on film. But since I can't do that, I'll have to rely on my photographic memory instead.

 

[johnnywalker]

Ok, Mike, I hope I don't incur the wrath of anyone here, but... have you ever noticed that 'dog' reversed is 'god'??? It's a possibility!

Sorry about this, but can't resist: Have you heard about the dyslectic agnostic insomniac who stayed awake all night wondering if there is a dog?

 

[johnnywalker]

Zambia was great, the North New Zealand Island awesome, Vietnnam wonderful if you like street, landscape and other interesting photos, but my favourite is the high Andes and the people and animals who live there.

 

[Lee Shively]

I first saw Northern New Mexico 20 years ago this past June. My future wife and I fell in love with the area although both of us--being sea level inhabitants--started out with mild cases of altitude sickness. We visited Santa Fe and the surrounding area twice a year for a while but now we only get out there once a year. It's funny how I sometimes didn't even take a camera for several of those trips, just enjoying the weather, the sights and the smells without any purpose except the sheer joy of living. But the light is incredible in its clarity and the sky is unbelievable in the depth of its blue.

Santa Fe is still a great central location for outward travel although Santa Fe itself has become heavy into consumerism, tourism, fadism and traffic. Last year, we were distressed to see the pinon forests in the hills around the city had died due to the drought--change is the only constant, I know. I still enjoy the town, its history, culture and the food. We'll be returning for another short visit soon. If I've left my heart anyplace, it has to be there.

 

[roteague]

It's funny how I sometimes didn't even take a camera for several of those trips, just enjoying the weather, the sights and the smells without any purpose except the sheer joy of living. But the light is incredible in its clarity and the sky is unbelievable in the depth of its blue.

Try Australia. I particulary love Kings Canyon at Watarrka National Park in the Northern Territory. The sky is so clear at night; there is absolutely no light pollution at all. The nearest town is 200+ kilometers away. Fantastic. Ayers Rock is just another overblown tourist destination now. If you are interested here is an article I put together about it: http://www.visionlandscapes.com/ArticlesTips.aspx?ArticleID=6

 

[mwtroxell]

The Southern Appalachian Mountains. I was born in the area and have never found anywhere that I had rather be (or photograph).

 

[ian_greant]

Ok, Mike, I hope I don't incur the wrath of anyone here, but... have you ever noticed that 'dog' reversed is 'god'??? It's a possibility!

Sorry about this, but can't resist: Have you heard about the dyslectic agnostic insomniac who stayed awake all night wondering if there is a dog?

What if dog was one of us?

 

[Eric Rose]

What if dog was one of us?

You Canadian Idol wanna be!!

 

[John McCallum]

Just a snapper like ... one ... of ... us ... (sing it)

 

[wiseowl]

Sorry about this, but can't resist: Have you heard about the dyslectic agnostic insomniac who stayed awake all night wondering if there is a dog?

Wasn't this the same dyslexic rugby trainer who signed Joanna Lumley?