Friends, Below is a composite of a survey on another usergroup of
the top ten places to photograph in your country. I think it was the
Nature Photography group. This has been copied and pasted with no
editing. Ray Amos
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In the US my picks would be:
The Grand Canyon
Statue of Liberty
Golden Gate Bridge
The Great Lakes
Indy 500
Colorado Mountains
Coastal Maine
Midwest cornfields
The Sonoran Desert
Great Smokey Mountai
>From Lapland, I would like to show:
1) Reindeer migration
2) European Brown Bear
3) Wolverine
4) Lynx
5) Moose
6) Wolf (one of the few that hasn't been shot)
7) Artic Fox
8) Iron mine
9) Powerlines marching across wilderness
10) Glaciated mountains
In Israel:
Golan Heights (Gamla)
Banias river and waterfalls
Lake Kineret
Mount Carmel Forests
Littered sea shore near Haifa
Sunrise over the Dead Sea as seen from Massada
Dead Sea
Judean Desert
Crater Ramon
Timna National Park (Solomon's Pillars)
1. Tourists at Bar Harbor in high season. WA
2. Summer traffic jam on Rt. 95 (So. CT) w families spilling out of
their cars. TELE
3. Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn side w/ that cemetery in the near
foreground. WA
4. North Georga's Mountains in early morning mist. Winding asphalt road
at bottom of a valley. 50 mm
5. Daytona Beach during Bike Week. WA
6. Any street scene in the Garden District of New Orleans. 50 mm
7. Lakeshore Drive w/ Chi. in background. At evening drive time. WA
8. Logan Pass (Rocky Mts.; MT) in the moonlight. WA
9. A sailplane above the Superstition Mts. In AZ. Air to air/50mm
10.LA, 8 lanes of bumper to bumper traffic in the Haze. TELE
My 10 would be:
Statue of Liberty with New York skyline (twilight shot)
Monument valley with Native American
Farm with red barn, and silos in Wisconsin or Amish farm scene Western
or
midwest wheat field being harvested
Mexican/Hispanic farm laborer picking grapes in the Napa Valley, CA
Cowboys herding or branding cows in Montana
Bald eagle (dramatic flying shot)
Yosemite Valley from Wawona Tunnel overlook
Golden Gate bridge and San Francisco from Marin Headlands
Redwoods with rhododendrons in bloom (May), Redwood NP, CA
The Sonoran desert in Arizona
Lighthouse or fishing village on the Maine coast
Sorry, I couldn't do it in 10....how about 12? I realize I slighted the
middle of the country some and the south, as well as Alaska and Hawaii.
Perhaps the Rural Vermont and red barn and silos shot could be combined
in
any eastern state with fall color.
Some other possibilities:
Rural Vermont scenic in the fall
Tornado in the midwest
Waikiki Beach and Diamond Head from high vantage point
Mickey Mouse in Disneyworld (not really nature)
A glacier in Alaska (scenic from nearby ridge shoeing people in
foreground and vastness of the area).
Buffalo/Bison by hot springs/geyser in Yellowstone in winter
Cypress trees &/or alligator or wading bird in a southern swamp
Scenic of canons and statues at Gettysburg
Finland:
1. pair of Song Swans
2. Midnight Sun in Lapland
3. Winter Forest (untouched by humans)
4. Forest being industrially felled
5. Elk (Moose)
6. A traditional fisherman in the archipelago
7. Sauna bathing family at a lakeside cottage
8. Winter night with aurora
9. Aerial shot of Lake Saimaa
10. The entrance to Helsinki South Harbor from the sea, as seen from a
car
ferry ship
FOR THE USA
Bald Eagle
A tractor
Mt. McKinley
A candid Native American shot
Ellis Island
New York skyline/black and white
A ranch in Texas with real cowboys
Prince William Sound Oil Spill
Golden Gate Bridge (with fog)
Steven Spielberg
In India:
1. Dal Lake, Srinagar - Heaven on earth
2. River Ganges, Haridwar - The great river enters the plains at this
holy
city.
3. The Indian Tiger, Ranthambor national park - India's national animal,
in
majestic settings
4. The Indian one horned Rhino, Kaziranga national park
5. Mangrove forests, Sunderbans - the world's largest delta.
6. The Asiatic Lion, Gir national forest
7. Jog Falls, Karnataka - India's tallest waterfalls
8. An Elephant, Mudumalai wildlife refuge.
9. Sunset at Kanyakumari - southern most tip of Indian mainland, where
the
three seas meet.
10. A Peacock with his feathers fanned out - India's national bird
In Canada:
>From East to West:
1. A lobster fisherman with his boat.
2. Quebec City Architecture.
3. Toronto Sky line from Toronto Island
4. Niagara Falls at night in Winter
5. The great plains of Manitoba and Saskatchewan
6. A grain elevator. (Before they are all torn down)
7. The Rocky Mountains at Waterton Lakes or Jasper
8. The Aurora Borealis in the North
9. An Elk in the wild.
10 A Wood Bison in Wood Buffalo National Park.
I posed the revised question , so i should make an attempts at
answering it myself. For the US I pick the following images:
1) Giant Redwoods in Muir Woods, California (This is by far and away
my first choice)
2) Glacier Calving into the sea from the Alaska Coast
3) Kileau Eruption in Hawaii
4) Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico (Lechiguilla Cave is by
far the most beautiful in the world, but access is severely limited
so
i didn't choose it)
5) Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
6) Saguaro Cactus in Arizona
7) Fog filling the valleys in Great Smokey Mountains National Park,
North Carolina/Tennesee
8) Swamp scene with hanging moss and an American alligator, Florida
somewhere
9) Grand Canyon from the north rim, Arizona (more stark, less
travelled)
10) Praries Grasslands with Buffalo, maybe Custer State park, South
Dakota
There were a few things i am disappointed I could not includ. The
next two would be Devil's Tower, Wyoming and Fall foliage in New
England (Probably Allegheny national Forest In Pennsylvania)
>From the U.S. (not in any particular order)
1. Northern goshawk chick hatching, with adult female standing watch
2. Temperate rain forests in the northwest
3. Deforestation of temperate rain forests in the Northwest
4. Elephant seals, Ano Nuevo Reserve, California
5. Coral reefs, Florida
6. School children and communities engaged in habitat recovery and
research
7. Top environmental educators
8. Uses of alternative renewable energies (solar, recycling,
composting)
9. Polar bear
10. Wolverine
1) Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon, with Flag and LEM
Of all the things could be remembered about this century and country
in another thousand years, this will be the most prominent- when man
first set foot upon another world. SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
2) Farm family in the midwest posing with a tractor.
Many if not most Americans, even those living in the city identify
with the bucolic farm scene. It is what we want to be , and what we
identify with on an unconscious level. A modern Grant Wood type
American Gothic. CORE VALUES
3) New York City skyline from a helicopter. New York is the best
representative of the urban hustle and bustle of modern American life.
There are other cities, but New York has a certain mystique. It
represents the DRIVE of the culture.
4) Football game shot down the line of scrimmage at field level just
after the ball is snapped. Sure many people might choose baseball as a
representative of sport, but I think Americans "like" baseball, but
"love" football. SPORT
5) Liberty Bell with the proper flag and associated symbols. As a
country the revolutionary war was the crucial event in our history.
The Civil war was of similar significance, but is not a rallying point
for our culture. As was pointed out before there were no cameras then,
but we still can contact that time through patriotic symbols such as
the Liberty Bell. This represents HISTORY, PATRIOTISM, and a sense of
IDENTITY for the country
6) Anisazi Ruins in the American southwest. I am not sure which
particular ruin, but I am leaning toward Pueblo Bonito in Canyon de
Chelley National Monument. In the eastern and central US were the
mound builders, but their mounds are not as photogenic or stark as the
Anisazi ruins. ANTIQUITY
7) Wheat Fields in Kansas (not Washington) the miles of spreading
wheat fields on an endless plain in autumn when they are golden in
color represents the breadbasket of out country and is the basis for
the major export of our country- food. We are in many ways still an
agrarian culture even as we develop advanced computer and space
technologies. I am not sure what this represents as a archtype
perhaps HEART
8) Satellite image of the country from space. National Geographic mad
a mosaic of the entire country from space based on photos taken from
space with each image selected for the direct lighting and lack of
clouds. Some thing like this would be nice, but I think a single
image from space with some clouds that showed the US and the curvature
of the Earth. SENSE OF PLACE
9) Immigrants at Ellis Island in the earlier part of this century.
People moving to this country from oversees represent the AMERICAN
DREAM, hope for a better life, and HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
10) Movie Industry- shot from behind the cameras as they shoot a
movie scene. There are many artists in the US and their ranks include
painters, sculpters, composers, writers, musicians, and others. None
of these groups though an important part of our culture, thoughwhen
you think of painter or composers etc. you do not immediately think of
the United States or even necessarily American artists. As an art
form the Movie industry is clearly dominated by Americans, and when
the world thinks of movies, they think of American Movies as the
dominant movie industry. This represents American ARTS.
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