Pack your gear!

[MHD]

Ok... here is another procrastination thread from your's truly

A mysterious benefactor comes up to you and says:
"Gee you are a good photographer, I will give you all the funds you need to get to and spend a week in a place where you will be in your photographic heaven"

So where would that be? Remember you only have a week!

I have to think on mine a bit

[Sheetshooter]

Depending upon the season and the weather I would select from the following:

Libya
Cappadocia (central Anatolia or Turkey)
Iceland

Now, where the bleedin' 'ell is this generous benefactor?

[Killakoala]

Alaska.

[DionM]

Prague or Marrakesh.

[sirhc55]

Siberia

[MHD]

Me: Nepal

But I have seen some speccy stuff come out of iceland so that would be a very close second (Very accessable glaciers!)

[ozczecho]

1. Northern China, in and around Harbin.
2. Patagonia, Argentina
3. Nepal

[losfp]

Yeah, Alaska for me too (we are planning on having our honeymoon in Canada/Alaska.. mmm .glaciers..)

Otherwise:

AFL Grand Final boundary photographer pass, preferably when Sydney are contesting their 8th straight grand final

[DionM]

AFL Grand Final boundary photographer pass, preferably when Sydney are contesting their 8th straight grand final

He said wealthy benefactor, not magical genie

[losfp]

AFL Grand Final boundary photographer pass, preferably when Sydney are contesting their 8th straight grand final

He said wealthy benefactor, not magical genie

Well, it's amazing how much magic a lot of money can perform Though perhaps that's more of an 8-year bribing project....

[birddog114]

Kirkuk or Mosul!

[radar]

Hi Scott,

for me Tibet is way up there and another place way up there, literally, Ellesmere Island in far north Canada. Only 500 miles from the North Pole. Read an article about the place and has since been a place I always want to go to.

http://www.blackfeather.com/hike/hike_ellesmeretrek.htm

Quttinirpaaq (Ellesmere Island) National Park of Canada. Most remote, fragile, rugged and northerly lands in North America.

How do I meet this benefactor?????

radar

[Onyx]

Central Baghdad!

[Killakoala]

Central Baghdad!

Join the Army, they'll even pay you to go.

[MHD]

But you have to do what the say

In all serious though people would actually do that?? So if some one offered you a trip you would actually go to Baghdad? Wow... there are some balls on this forum!

[birddog114]

But you have to do what the say

In all serious though people would actually do that?? So if some one offered you a trip you would actually go to Baghdad? Wow... there are some balls on this forum!

Why not? that why I posted Kirkuk and Mosul! and I'm seriously

[agriffiths]

trek along the silk trail

[owen]

I'd follow Michael Palin's footsteps in the Himalayas. Beautiful countryside up there.

[nodabs]

half 2 days bagdad 3 days alaska 2 days shooting the north shore trails of vancouver.

thats journalism landscape and wildlife and action sports. that would be a busy week

[Yedrup]

1. Trek the full length of Great Wall of China,
2. Boat down the Mekong River in Cambodia from the Cambodia/Laos border to Chattomukh (Four Faces) then follow to China Sea, and
3. Travel from Chang Rai in northern Thailand to Sungai Koluk in the south by the slowest means (motor bike or/and train and/or boat).

Should I start packing now

[Oneputt]

How many of you guys have been to the Kimberly, Central Australia, Cape York, the Vic High Country? Not many I'll bet, and yet you would rush overseas? You don't know what you are missing

[mitedo]

Back to China & great wall for me

[sirhc55]

Kevin - I would send the lens you used for images 1 and 2 back for service

Lovely imaging

[cordy]

LAX for me, to fit in with my spotting hobby

[Greg B]

I would have to check with my wife to find out where I really
wanted to go

[JZA70-mel]

Carribean -Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Shoot

[Sheetshooter]

How many of you guys have been to the Kimberly, Central Australia, Cape York, the Vic High Country? Not many I'll bet, and yet you would rush overseas? You don't know what you are missing

John,

I have been to pretty well all those spots - some several times - and feel no compulsion to return to any of them.

My interests primarily lie in Theology and the Roman occupation of foreign lands. Not a lot of that in Australia.

As an Australian and hence an island dweller - remote island at that - I have always found it enriching to stand in one country and see into another. For example, standing on the Southern Coast of England and looking across to France. That thrill is mutiplied for me at Gibraltar or in Istanbul where one can look from one continent to another.

In Iceland there is a fault line and one can stand with a foot on either side. One side is the European tectonic plate and the other is the North American. Plus there is all that ever changing lava fed terrain along with the slim possibilty of a chance meeting with the one and only Björk.

Beats the socks off being at Trinity Wharf in Cairns and bumping into Kylie and Jason.

Cheers,

[christiand]

I'd be going back to Thailand.

Ayuthaya, Wat Mahatat


Cheers,
CD

[radar]

Hi Oneputt,

How many of you guys have been to the Kimberly, Central Australia, Cape York, the Vic High Country? Not many I'll bet, and yet you would rush overseas? You don't know what you are missing

Been to a few of those, and I'll go back I'm sure, but I can afford to go there. It's those far away and extended trips that I need a wealthy benefactor

Cheers,

radar

[mitedo]

I'd be going back to Thailand.

Ayuthaya, Wat Mahatat


Cheers,
CD

Great shot can you post some more from Thailand some time would like to have a look at more pics from around this area

[Oneputt]

Sheetshooter that is fine, but you have been there. Too many miss out on seeing what Australia has to offer. I did most (not all) of my overseas travelling when I was young. That said, I do have a hankering to visit Vietnam

[Dug]

I have driven and photographed around Australia but I would love to take some models into the outback if I had the money.

Tough call, somewhere remote but only a week to get the feel of the place makes it difficult.

Somewhere in remote Iraq, not Bagdad,

Antarctica,

Yap islands / Micronesia / Palau

I don't know stick a pin in a map and drop me there by helicopter

That would be fun.

[Sheetshooter]

John,

I guess it really isn't very important WHAT we dream but just that we do STILL dream.

I have been assisting a friend curate an international travelling exhibition of photographs he has made at Lake Eyre. Importantly, these are images made AT Lake Eyre and not OF Lake Eyre - they are a departure point to contemplate and venture to other places in our minds rather than in reality. The flatness, emptiness and desolation of the salt lakes is the perfect vehicle for him to convey what he wanted to convey. This is his first colour show and previously he has had many successful exhibitions from remote wilderness locations in the Himalayas, patagonia and several escapades on foot throughout Tasmania. Typically he will arrive in Devonport and trek for a few week before emerging in Hobart for the return to Sydney. All his food, his film and his 4x5 kit is hanging on his back.

Irrespective of where he goes it is the EXPERIENCE that influences his works. All too often folk choose to treat a photo excursion like a shutterbug version of a Womens Weekly World Discovery tour - seeing all the spots on the tour guides' itineraries. Largely just checking that all the things are there that the brochure said would be there. Would that be the best way to squander a benefactors philanthropy? Not for my colleague and not for me.

Where my mate looks for the expression of his personal expreriences I choose to illustrate the experiences of others - generally in other times - through my adventures. Experience still has a role to play and it would be remiss of me, or any of us, to go to any place and only fire off random pictures without seeking to enlarge or develop our own spirit and understanding.

Cheers,

[Sheetshooter]

Doug,

The model thing is best as a dream - the reality is soul destroying. I had decades of being sent to all the spots and standing some pile of excess walking protein that couldn't remember where it had left its clothes in front of them.

Seldom, if ever, have I seen the figure in nature work in a natural symbiotic way. Invariably the two elements end up being at odds with each other. And if it is natural looking people in the landscape like the pioneer or the venturer that is called for then models never quite seem to play the part convincingly.

Just some thinking out loud.


Cheers,

[Jamie]

I'd go to Tibet, China or Japan.

Now who's funding this?

[Hudo]

Walter,

Haven't laughed this much in a while. Continue to think out aloud. It's saving me money on therapy

Mark PS: The Colorado Rockies without the models

[radar]

Hi Walter,

I have been assisting a friend curate an international travelling exhibition of photographs he has made at Lake Eyre. Importantly, these are images made AT Lake Eyre and not OF Lake Eyre - they are a departure point to contemplate and venture to other places in our minds rather than in reality. The flatness, emptiness and desolation of the salt lakes is the perfect vehicle for him to convey what he wanted to convey. This is his first colour show and previously he has had many successful exhibitions from remote wilderness locations in the Himalayas, patagonia and several escapades on foot throughout Tasmania. Typically he will arrive in Devonport and trek for a few week before emerging in Hobart for the return to Sydney. All his food, his film and his 4x5 kit is hanging on his back.

Irrespective of where he goes it is the EXPERIENCE that influences his works,

Sounds like an exhibition well worth experiencing. If he does have exhibition(s) happening in Australia, let us know, I did manage to go and see the Nick Brandt exhibition in Sydney and the way he presents the African animals is very special almost magical.

cheers,

radar

[ozimax]

Yeah, Alaska for me too (we are planning on having our honeymoon in Canada/Alaska.. mmm .glaciers..)

Otherwise:

AFL Grand Final boundary photographer pass, preferably when Sydney are contesting their 8th straight grand final

No contest here, spending a week as sole photographer with the team after South Sydney win the 2006 premiership, the first for 35 years...well, there's no harm in dreaming is there?

Seriously, I think a week in Africa, maybe Zambia or Botswana.

No, I have it. On the back of a jetski photographing the famed Teahupo break in a world surfing event with all the top guns present. That's it for sure.

[Raskill]

I think anywhere in Europe, with an unlimited railway pass and my british passport would see me right. Like Sheetshooter says, being at this end of the world, and being so remote, I also find it amazing that my cousins and friends go to Paris/Budapest/Switzerland etc etc for a few days.

So much history in Europe, such a mixing pot,especialy in areas of Spain with Muslim/Christian culture overlapping. Would LOVE to do it.

But with a bub on the way and no spare money it'll be a few years yet.

[Zeeke]

Im happy with australia... im only 23.. and i wouldnt trade it for any other place to live.. we have everything to offer here.. and i love travelling around Qld.. especially upto central Qld

Tim

[Dargan]

India

[Manta]

Madagascar
Bhutan
Portafino
the Serengeti and....

wait for it.....

The Moon!!!
(That's some wealthy benefactor!)

[Nikon boy]

Antarctica, I live in Melbourne and am used to the cold

[kipper]

Definately either Alaska or Canada. Would love to check out the Polar Beers in Churchill, Manitoba or watch the Coastal Brown Bears at Katmai, Alaska. It would be great to watch a Salmon run aswell with the Bears waiting in ambush for the fish to jump up the river.

Apart from those two places, I think Africa would be another great place to go or some areas around China mostly the west near Jade Dragon Mountain which is part of the Himalayas on the border with Tibet. Looks magnificant from one of the posters that lives there on another forum.

[mudder]

oooh geee, decisions, decisions... Much like wondering which sports cars would you buy if you won tatts Unlikely but very enjoyable pondering just the same

Torn between ladscape stuff in which case I'd love to spend some time touring our own wonderful country, or animal stuff in which case I'd love to go to either Africa or Borneo etc... Sigh, decisions, decisions...