As I was walking through Times Square, my attention was captured by the number of people who watching the world through their phones, rather than just observing it.
DrFumblefinger continues his exploration with a visit to the coastal Everglades
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Marilyn Jones pays a visit to a retirement home for 300 chimpanzees
Taroudant’s city walls surround its impressive medina. When DrFumblefinger visited, the walls showed extensive damage from a recent earthquake.
DrFumblefinger shares some photos of the beautiful Middle Fork of the Clearwater River.
At the Tate Britain Museum, a stunning mural honors a young artist lost to a tragic fire
Jonathan L explores the effects of gentrification on a New York City neighborhood
Jonathan L takes a look back to his 2006 trip to Volgograd, and to the historic battle of Stalingrad, a turning point of World War II.
Jonathan L shows off one of the classic NYC subway entrances
I know what you mean about not looking at life, except through your viewfinder or phone. If there is time now, I actually make a point of walking through a place to see what I see with the camera put away (after I’ve taken the photos I need for TravelGumbo, of course).
Seems everyone’s a photographer in our modern world.
Some people do it very well. Others, well, not so much so.
It makes it harder to sell photos. But to me it was as much about not looking at the world directly. I see the same thing a concerts now.
I took a photography course this summer. Our last assignment was to go to Santa Fe Plaza for 1 hour and take not more than 2 photos.