Travel Photos

I used to think travel photography was so cliché but I have slightly changed my view after much contemplation.

I see all these tourists when we travel and some of them obviously have enough money to buy better gear or more updated gear than I have. That is the thing in this digital age, get the best even if you don’t have the slightest clue how to use it to its potential. It’s made me really consider why their pictures won’t be like mine.

Well I know they can’t be like mine because I have my own style and use techniques I have found over many years of shooting. As well as everyone’s eye is different, so no shot will ever be the same.

But I have also been trained how to do this specific genre of photography. Photograph a city to give the reader a feeling of being there, shoot it like national geographic or any other magazine that will do a focus on a specific place. There are certain views you need to have and, if you will, a check list. So I look for views and moments and angles that others wouldn’t.

I was really lucky to find myself in Notre Dame on Easter Sunday. I found a little corner that I could glimpse the communion being delivered and it was beyond amazing. The light coming in from the windows above the entrance, the smoke from the burning incense wafting through the shafts of light all came together to make a very lasting impression as well as a very special photo.

I had an opportunity to step back and watch others light their candles and speak to those who have moved beyond the earth’s sphere, join in their personal moments. It was a true honor. Usually when I am in the church I am lighting the candle and having my personal moment with my loved ones watching over me. This day I did that but also had another duty that filled my soul and I recorded that.

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