Whats your worst travel photograpy clich?

Clichs. Hoary, hackneyed, redundant, repetitive, groan-inducing clichs. The world grunts under a weight of them, from a particular things we contend as well as do to a cultural as well as inventive endeavors of entire nations.

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NOTEBOOK Founding editor as well as Matador comparison editor David Miller is what we could call a clich-buster. His bullshit receiver is permanently set to on. He has been known mark a writing clich from 400 yards, even if its all dressed up in a wig as well as fake facial hair.

Davids mission is simple. He wants to absolved a transport writing world of inactive banalities as well as routine prosaisms. He wants to stop us writers being derivative as well as inspire us to be confidant as well as honest, even if a brains are constrained us to believe which what weve listened or seen before must be whats right.

The same meditative can, as well as should be as well as sometimes is applied to transport photography. Every photographer is influenced in some sense by a millions of images which have passed before their eyes. Its indeed difficult not to be convinced by a photographs which have impressed us many when we go out as well as find a own, though its a bit similar to mindlessly regurgitating phrases weve seen upon a internet.

And yet we must resist. To be a successful transport writer or photographer its imperative to find as well as foster your own strange voice or vision, your own style. Trying to write similar to Jack Kerouac or fire images similar to Steve McCurry will only have we a second rate version of those people.

In which spirit, Id similar to to ask everyone to call out a worst transport photography clichs they can consider of. Cheesy sunsets, overly informed landscapes, people pulling over a disposition tower of Pisa. Lets call em out, accumulate them up as well as burn them upon Davids next platit! ude bonf ire.

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Please give us your worst transport photography cliche examples (descriptions and/or links) in a comments below.


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