Ah, National Geographic. You always know how to tickle my wanderlust. Today in my email box up popped a regular message from NG (cause I over-subscribe to them, getting emails on just about anything they can dream up to send me), and lo and behold, out pops their Top 10 Iconic Places to Photograph. I don't think there is a photographer alive who would not drool over any of these places:
- Antarctica
- Venice, Italy
- Machu Picchu, Peru
- Stonehenge, England
- Taj Mahal, India
- Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
- Ta Phram Temple (Angkor Wat), Cambodia
- The Serengeti, Tanzania
- Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Looking over that list, I would have to pick out my few favorites. Machu Picchu would be close to the top if not all the way there. I would love the long trek up to the mountain, and then to stand amongst the ruins and see the immensity of what the Inca achieved there. Rapa Nui would be another goal, out in the middle of the Pacific, seeing the moai as testaments to the failed culture. And then there is the beauty of another ruined culture, the great temples of the Angkor kingdom in Cambodia, now swallowed up by the jungle. And last, but certainly not least, the Serengeti, with its megafauna (and a lot of microfauna as well), through the Ngorongoro crater, the migrations of wildebeast. (Though, in all honesty, I would prefer to see the Okavango delta in full flood, but let's not quibble). Such a great list, I couldn't really narrow it lower than those 4, and in truth I'd love to see any of the 10; they are all such amazing adventure and photographic opportunities. How about you? Which would be at the top of your list?? Enjoy.
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