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Why shoot in places you've shot before?

Why shoot in places you've shot before?

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Why shoot in places you've shot before?

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I've been to Death Valley a lot and I've shot here a lot. So you might be thinking, then why did choose Death Valley as a location for this course if you've been here so much? That's a good question and it's a question I will often find myself asking myself when I'm wandering around Death Valley not getting any pictures that I like. I'll think, well why did I come here, why didn't I go somewhere new since I'm not seeing anything here, I feel like I've shot it all before. The challenge of returning to a place is to try to get out of your comfort zone. The way that I shot it before was probably the way that it, it was most obvious to me. By coming back to it now, I'm challenging myself to find a new way of shooting, trying to find a less obvious way of shooting, trying to find a different take on the same material. The advantage of coming to a place that I've been to before is I know it well already. I know the places that I want to go. I know the places that I can skip. I might have…

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