You can take a nature photographer out of nature, but you can’t take nature ouf of a nature photographer. While exploring and photographing New York City last year I found some great subjects for travel stock, but I was most excited about photographing a simple nature scene lost to most rushing by on their “leisure” filled Saturday morning in Central Park. While many New Yorkers were squeezing in their morning jog, bike ride or walk to breakfast this simple scene lay under their nose completely unappreciated. Even in the concrete jungle there is nature to be found, too bad their isn’t more of it.
Lost Nature Scene: Fall Color in Central Park, New York
[tags]nature, photography, fine art, intimate portrait, stock photo, New York, Manhattan, Central Park[/tags]
We see what we want to see. I’m glad your view is so broad. Your posted images are always beautiful and interesting.
Beautiful close-up!
It’s amazing to think of the things we miss in our everyday rush, especially in the big city.
I’ll drive hundreds of miles to shoot a particular kind of bird (especially owls), but I wonder how many I might drive right by as I’m on the way – or on my daily commute.
We all need to develop the ability to slow down and look at the beauty that is around us every day. Sunrise. Trees. Birds – even stopping to watch a common seagull fly.
It’s hard to do, but as your post and image show, it pays great dividends!
Charlie MacPherson
http://www.TheAmazingImage.com
http://www.TheWildInFocus.com
A fine photograph and interesting post. I enjoy finding nature in the city. I remember my dad used to talk about one of the early clues he later recognized as pointing toward a life photographing nature. When he was a kid, he remembered noticing the trees that tried to grow up through the cracks in the sidewalk in front of his house in San Francisco. He not only noticed the trees more than the buildings or streets or any other feature, he also felt empathy for those trees struggling in the urban environment. Central Park, fortunately for the trees, is very different. As you probably know, it is designed by man to be friendly to nature…and succeeds.
“You can take a nature photographer out of nature, but you can’t take nature ouf of a nature photographer.”
Nicely expressed, Jim. I agree.
I believe there is more of this in our world than most know. Nature scenes exist everywhere and a person such as yourself Jim recognizes that. The issue as I see it is that there is a lost appreciation of nature. Being in New York of all places this is the norm, the unappreciative views of nature. The world revolves around the the lights and social aspects of those you chose to live in such urbanized places and nature is just something “they” have to “put up” with.