Where is the best place in the world to take a photo?
 

If you were going to take a vacation just to take pictures where would you go?

And I'm not interested in the postcard locations (Rome, Paris, Tokyo, etc.).

Bart

I have a few:
Oregon Coast
Big Sur, CA
Sedona, AZ
Yellowstone NP
Yosemite NP
Crater Lake NP

Canadian Rockies
Alaska
New England Coast

if you are a photographer - you can take world-class pictures anywhere. And if you aren't, you can take bad ones anywhere.

unanswerable question IMHO since there are a million places you could go. Even though all the places mentioned so far are amazing - all you would get are "postcards". What sort of pictures do you want??

Best place in the world for photos = wherever you are. Totally agree with janisj on this - the scenery doesn't matter, great photos can be found anywhere.

I would go where there are a lot of people. Much more interesting than mountains or lakes.

How this custom with photo travel is started when in USA I cannot say. Somany time I getting stuck on a bus or plane to see family photos on their tourists wallet and purse but we cannot leaving rude. so we see thousand pictures of the strangers all of the time. How this can be? Nobody think we wanting to see the pictures for a no reason.

The question is absurd.

Great photos are found everywhere and most are unexpected.

This question is for people who like theme parks, where the entertainment is provided for you and all you do is pay. It is a unique experience for you and one muillion of your closest friends.

The last two trips I stopped carrying my camera and it was quite liberating.

Fully agree.Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One of my favorite photo"s I took two weeks ago was of my 5 year old granddaughter with her newborn brother in her arms.Paul

Home seems like an unlikely spot but just this week I missed a chance at a wonderful shot of a red fox watching me from the cover of some young trees as I didn't have my camera with me since I was home. :^(

the best place to take a photo, is to take it to a professional photo shop so that desired enhancements can be rendered.

oh im sorry, did you want a geographical tourist destination instead?

I'm not a photographer, but my best pictures have been of Alaska, French Polynesia, and the National Parks.

The question if you read it is not absurb.

If I were going on vacation just to take pictues I would go to the rockies.

ok - you want an answer - w/o a doubt Scotland. But you don't want postcards so I'm still not sure how that helps any.

The OP asks an interesting question - "If you were going to take a vacation just to take pictures...." is a personal preference on the destination. Most photo contests are subject to various categories depending on what you like - scenery, people, animals, etc. There is no wrong answer... Bart just wants your suggestions or go to another post.

Mine are -
Santorini
Northern Italy
Switzerland
Baveria
Cote d'Azur
Anguilla

& agree w/trippinkpj but except for Sedona (never been there).

Great site for photos of the world- http://www.panoramio.com/

Yellowstone/Grand Tetons
National Parks of Utah

Utahtea

I think a good answer is "behind the camera." But to offer something you might find more helpful:

Hard to beat New York City, especially if you like black and white.

Cartier-Bresson did some good non-postcard work in Paris.

Mexico. We could go on about Mexico -- markets, mountains and volcanoes, street scenes, ruins, deserts, jungles . . .

From the peak of any mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park on a clear day, above the clouds. If you're not a hiker, take a photo at the top of the highest paved highway in the U.S. in Rocky Mountain National Park (also called the Trail Ridge Road). The scenery is spectacular and it's amazing how many foreigners make this a top destination (you can hear foreign languages everywhere). I think us Americans take our own backyard for granted.

Back in the days before automatic exposure cameras, the secret to taking great photos, taught in many, many beginning and advanced photo classes was: "set exposure to f8 and be there".

It is still a valid lesson that several posters have already made. Great photos can be found anywhere, you never know when you will stumble across one, you have to be open to seeing it, and finally, you have to have a camera to capture it.

Having said that, a few of the greatest photos I've seen were never taken. The opportunity was there but, for whatever reasons, I was not able to take them and they exist only in my memory.

I agree with janisi...Scotland. Loch Ness.