Thanks everyone for submitting for last week's challenge. For this week, let's do something a bit more personal with the theme "favorite place". Submit photos of your favorite place that you've photographed!
Clearly, on my bicycle along the Loira ;)
This is indeed my happy place and I go there often. Point Reyes National Seashore. From redwoods to rugged coast, it's difficult to sum this place up with one photo but this will have to do.
The place i visit the most, because it's relatively close (45min drive) to where i live in switzerland. This particular evening, after a two hour overcast hike, the sun decided to peek through to bathe the Säntis in some nice evening light.
I'm going with somewhere close- where I live. August of last year I relocated to Sarasota, FL from Philly, PA for work. I managed to find a pad just a couple blocks off the bay. Where I'm at on it features this boat launch as well as The Bay Park which encompasses the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center (venue for Broadway tours), municipal auditorium, Botanical Association, and has it's own outdoors architectural art installation designed to host events. Besides views like this, it is a great place to snag some bird images as a number like brown pelicans gather around this boat launch, and there is a little inlet down the way with mangroves that Ibis like to gather in. This image was a casual capture trying to see the limits of my Nikon Z6 II the day I got it. Captured handheld with the Nikkor 24-70 S f4.
I have been on so many places in the world that I couldn't decide, which place was the most fascinating. There have been so many incredible places, which I always will remember. But thinking about the topic I came to the conclusiion, that returning home after a trip is always the best. So I choose pictures of a small hill in the middle of my home town Graz/Austria, which is situated directly in front of my terrace. Sitting on my balcony I see this hill at every season and daytime. And within 10 minutes I am there and I am out of the noise of the city and I enjoy beeing in this quiet place.
And it's even more quiet in winter:
And if you are on the top, you might get a private concert by a musician also enjoying the quiet atmosphere:
So my favorite place is at home.