Does your neighborhood offer too few LF landscape opportunities?

  • If yes, is it your neighborhood's fault, your equipment's, or yours? If you can, please explain your situation.
  • If no (i.e., your local opportunities are boundless), what are the associated risks, if any, to your LF work? And how do you address them?

As for me, I’m a "no" person. I'm blessed by the natural beauty of my immediate region (Pacific NW). Craggy mountains, steamy volcanoes, wave-splashed sea stacks, heaven-high waterfalls, giant evergreen trees. But I fear my region's "ease" often fails to challenge, and therefore improve, my ability to visualize or compose. One way I try to "stay sharp" is to do LF studies of individual subjects over time. For example, a slowly dying tree over the years – or a creek bend from the same viewpoint under various kinds of weather or water flow. I've discovered that a long-term relationship with a unique subject keeps my artistic attention from being scattered by the boundless landscape opportunities around me, like a kid in a candy shop.

Whether yes or no, what thoughts can you share that might help the rest of us?