location, location, location

July 2, 2008 | Category: Preparation

I’ve been taking photos for fun for a couple of years now and I think the hardest part is trying to find new places to photograph.

It feels like I live in a difficult place for photography. The towns are, despite their history, pretty unremarkable, being mostly a cross between old industry or old agriculture and much of the countryside is barren moorland, so I will often try to pick somewhere to travel to.

The problem is that hitting up a place for the first time makes it difficult to find the photogenic parts of it and checking out flickr to find out what is interesting in the area might mean spending some time finding a feature only to repeat someone else photograph when you get there.

I started a website a little while back (photospots.co.uk) where photographers could add their own locations, and share them. It has been a success but hasn’t really helped me find anything new locally. I may be the only user in West Yorkshire.

Despite all this I do continue to find, and look for, interesting places to photograph locally. On Monday I revisited the Yorkshire Sculpture park which I haven’t been two for over a year, and yesterday I headed to the coast, to Cleethorpes, and I should have a few shots from these days up over the next week.

Do you have any tips on finding interesting sights to photograph?