I wish I could travel to exotic lands, strange places with unusual formations in earth and villages and faces of people of a sort new see in exotic costume.  Location...get the location and shoot a decent image and folks will like it.  It is different and new.

Shoot a sunset or landscape and unless unusual for some reason or the other, you compete with every other similar shot out there.  Technique is needed in excellence to make this shot somehow standout above the rest.

I saw some of the shots which stand out above the rest today. These photos stand out because of location..that is it in a nutshell.  The photo quality is not the reason for wanting to see the photos...yet most are done pretty well.  Location does it.

For a sum of cash you can take a Russian icebreaker ship to the North Pole.  Yes, right to the pole! Along the way you get wonderful shots of ice, more ice, more ice and polar bears, bears and cubs, bears eating seals, a walrus of two, strange plants on unknown land near the top of the earth.   This is location.

I just viewed an array of shots taken by a friend who appreciates nature and artistry and creativity.  These photos were of the Artic and the things mentioned.   She tells me the mental images hold the vastness in a truth no photo can reveal.  I have not been there but must agree that is true.  

So, give me a ticket. Give me the way..then I will wow a few folks with photos from that exotic location I will likely never have opportunity to visit otherwise.    I wish we all could have such a chance and opportunity.

In the meantime, what we do is the best we can with what is around us. The wonderful macros we see, the creative images..all that makes up the stuff of LWITG and other images we love..most comes from us common folk, common enough not to be in the exotic location but good enough to record it well in photo.  And, for me, certainly the homeland you have may be very exotic...whether in Romania or South Africa, northern parts of Scotland or a wonderful flower in Roby's South America.