Landscape Photography is for Introverts?
Hei guys, welcome back to another video.
In today’s video I wanted to talk about photography in solitude. Are landscape photographers always, or mostly shooting alone?
Much of my landscape photography, in pre-covid days, were photographed alone. I love traveling alone, when you don’t have to worry about other people waiting for you. I could get up hours before the sunrise, and stand alone before an alpine lake, just to wait for that magical moment when the reflection of the snow-capped mountains get hit by the earliest rays of pre-dawn light.
Not alone, I was surrounded by thousands of mosquitoes here.
Even if I were to travel in a group, at the time of shooting, we will inevitably split off into our ways to find our own compositions.
Shooting in a group? Two’s a crowd.
Which leads me to the question. Is landscape photography the choice for introverts?
Would I be more of a wedding or events photographer if I love being surrounded by the company of people? To be clear, I am also a full time wedding photographer, but that is simply because I’m fond of money, and I find it easier to convince people to pay me, then it is for me to ask a mountain to cough out some cold hard cash for some rocky portraits. So is our style or genre of photography merely a reflection of who we really are on the inside?
When other tourists become your subjects. Maybe being alone ain’t that great after all.
I would think so. It takes a unique personality to be willing to spend hours in the tranquil moments of quietness to find peace within oneself and the world which was created for us. As I quote often, “if you can’t appreciate spending hours to stare at the reflection of the moon at the changing of tides, we can’t even be friends.”
Starring into a sunrise isn’t just a mood. It’s a lifestyle.
Why do you think you photograph what you do? Is it merely a choice of preference, or is it a mirror of the way we live our lives?
Let me know what you guys think in the comments down below. Thank you guys for watching, remember to like and subscribe to the channel. In the next video, I’ll be showing you guys how I frame and shot this image at Gardens by the Bay during sunrise.
Shalom and goodbye.
