Comments on: Off the beaten tracks ! https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/off-the-beaten-tracks/ Straight, candid, unposed Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:08:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Jeff Chane-Mouye https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/off-the-beaten-tracks/#comment-3998 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:07:19 +0000 https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/?p=7895#comment-3998 In reply to John Harper.

Thanks ! The title has been amended !
Most of the time I stay the same place, because I don’t want to go elsewhere or because I don’t have the time to go roaming in different places. But each time I took the opportunity to visit new places, I reckon that I was happy to see with fresh eyes news territories. The main problem as you mentionned is that most of the time, these places see little people. But it’s an opportunity to work differently with more patience and less people in the frame. There are a few places here in the city where safety could be a problem. Not that I could be assaulted, but juts the fact of photographying could be misunderstood and could take you to strong confrontation. But I think that I will give it a try, just to get me off my comfort zone !

]]> By: John Harper https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/en/off-the-beaten-tracks/#comment-3996 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 06:46:30 +0000 https://www.jeffchanemouyephotography.com/?p=7895#comment-3996 There’s an English term for this: “Off the beaten track”. Which is to say: away from the well trodden path. If you were on holiday, staying in a house in the middle of nowhere then that phrase could be used, or equally if you wander off the main route or road anywhere. Which actually sums it up, you wander off and it’s like a little holiday from the normal routine. We all know holidays are good for you. So yes, see things differently from a photographic perspective. I have tried this, usually though there are so few people around that I give up. Also tried in other cities, Vegas for example. The problem there becomes one of safety once you wander too many blocks away from the main hub of downtown. My friend often says, and I agree with him, that as long as there are people about you’re pretty safe anywhere in the world, it’s when there aren’t any you need to be concerned. Plus you have something to photograph!

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