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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 16, 2020 13:28:34 GMT
Somewhere I've got images from a SC 'nature' park. It has a creek, lots of old cypress, and copperheads in season. The poison ivy with leaves as big as my hand were a nice touch.
Then there's New Mexico, Arizona, and other areas, as long as I can find memory sticks and external rives.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 16, 2020 14:17:41 GMT
Yeah...I have photos from nearly 50 years of traveling that Judith and I have done! Everything from Death Valley and Yellowstone to Italy and Iceland. Anything remotely useful, from a potential background to a texture, from clouds to rocks, winds up in my files. Probably every other book cover I've done includes something from that collection, even if it's only a detail. I even turn to the files when doing my space art, for things like rocks, textures and skies. For at least the past fifteen or twenty years I will take photos while traveling specifically with an eye out for potential use as reference material (with the result that most of our show-and-tell vacation pictures wind up being by Judith). I will take pictures of old cars, buildings (new and old...even in ruins), machinery, rocks, trees, construction sites, ice formations...anything that might turn out to be useful. Not long ago I noticed a great pattern in a polished travertine wall at Duke University Hospital. It wound up wrapped around a sphere as a perfect ice planet (see below). Since I worked a lot from photos even when I was still doing most of my illustrations in traditional media---especially when doing figures---I have many hundreds of photos of friends who have modeled for me. And when I need something special that's not already in my files, I talk someone into posing for me. Happily, pretty much everyone I know is glad to do this!
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 16, 2020 16:02:33 GMT
There are some spots I can stop you'll likely find of interest, like an old house reverting to nature and similar.
If I can locate an abandoned small town in the area [the old school is the main building left, supposedly haunted] and get permission to take a few pictures I will.
In a year I think I need to invest in a decent camera. I'd love to get out to Big Bend for a few days both for the hiking and the pictures. The terrain between here and there goes from semi-arid to arid, though there is still a stand of New England type hardwoods at Big Bend, holdovers from the last Ice Age [micro-climate can cause interesting things].
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