It's time for a picspam!

[veritykindle]

OK, so every time I go for a trip somewhere, especially somewhere new, I like to take a lot of pictures, sometimes of people I know, but most of the time just of things around me that catch my attention. (It's much easier to take pictures of inanimate objects than people, after all, and running after people and begging them to stop in every place I

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[icepixie]

What crazy people are telling you it's pointless to take pictures without people? Seriously? That's basically the only kind of picture I take, and I take a lot of pictures. (And when I do take pictures with people in them, the folks I show them to are like, "That would be a great picture without the people in it!")

The last photo in this post is gorgeous. I like the red flowers in the foreground, and all the colors of the sky and mountains in the background.

[veritykindle]

I've got to admit, it puzzles me, too. But I swear, this comes up every time I take a trip somewhere! I was beginning to think I was somehow missing something because I like looking at pictures without people.

Maybe it's a cultural thing? Most of the people who have told me this were Russian, and I think they were thinking of the precious few old black and white pictures they were able to bring over to the US from Russia. If there is limited space, I guess it does make sense to take the pictures that are part of your family history before anything else. But space really isn't am issue anymore, so I don't think this reasoning applies anymore.

But then again, a few Americans have made this point to me, too, so... I don't know.

I think that pictures with people serve a different purpose from the pictures without people, but that doesn't mean that the pictures without people are pointless!

(Or maybe it's just that I'm not that good a photographer, and bad pictures without people are not as interesting as bad pictures with people. *g*

[kernezelda]

I much prefer pictures of places to be unpeopled, and get the full view of what you're looking at. That's why you go to interesting places! Pictures of people at interesting places or just to have are very nice, but they're not the same thing.

It doesn't matter what anyone else says, you take the pictures you want and that make you happy. What's the point, otherwise?

*enjoys pictures*

[veritykindle]

*smiles at you* There are some pictures that seem empty without people in them. But there are also pictures that I think work much better without people. I just don't understand why I can't take both!

*smiles at you*

ETA: I just realized I smiled at you twice in one tiny comment, so I almost edited one time out, but then I decided there can never be too many smiles, so I think I'll leave both of them in. (Hey, I've been told I smile too much, so I guess at least this is true to life. ;) )

[vilakins]

Most of my holiday pictures don't have people in them. I take them for their beauty, and to remind me of being there, and I loved looking at yours. Ignore that strange advice!

I wish I could go to Spoleto and places like that and just stay there for a while. Ahhh, if Greg gets his Bulgarian nationality, we might be able to live in Germany (which I'd like because I speak German) or Italy (which he'd like, and I would too for the beauty and joy of life there, and I do speak enough present-tense Italian to get by).

[veritykindle]

I'm glad you liked the pictures. :)

My father travels a lot in the Spring, and I tend to visit him at least once a year, so I end up traveling quite a bit, too. And I love visiting all these different places, but I've got to admit, I've never actually wanted to live anywhere but Boston.

It's nice to visit other places, and even to stay the for a little while, but they are not home you know?

And I don't speak Italian, but I still found most written signs to be relatively easy to decipher, just knowing English and Russian. I had much more trouble in Germany, with all those long compound words so I'm really impressed that you speak German. :)

[vilakins]

Lucky, lucky you!

Knowing German, French, Italian, and Latin got me round pretty well; I could even read signs in Scandinavia using German. Couldn't understand what people said, though. :-P

The long compound German words are easy: they're all made up of simple ones joined up. For example, "transparency" in English is from Latin and not easy for children to understand, but the German is "Durchsichtigkeit" which means "through-see-able-ness". I like that a lot! You also get wonderful words like "Auspuff" (out-puff) for the exhaust on a car.