Travel AND Photography?

I love my macro photography, and my pictures of butterflies, flowers, and other small objects. I have always wondered, though, if it would be worth it to explore other avenues. In my earlier What's Your Niche post, I described what I considered my strengths: macro photography, interiors, and abstracts.

What's interesting, though, is that I "fell into" macro photography. A few years ago, I only thought I was capable of landscape photography. I didn't even know what macro photography was. So, I wonder, what else am I missing?

I was looking over some of my favorite albums, and stumbled across this picture of a hotel:



One person said that the picture was probably nicer than the ones on the hotel website. I thought about this yesterday, and asked myself, hmmm ... really?

I think my hotel photography skills need some work.

Then I remembered these:



I mean, who wouldn't want to be at this hotel? I sent these to the general manager, and he thought they were really nice, too. So there's some hope ...

And then I realized what I'd been missing with some of my other shots (not shown here). The straight lines, the angles, they're all here. What is not here is my command of the sun and harsh lighting. I simply am not good (yet) at overcoming adverse lighting conditions.

So, I took one of those pictures and submitted it to one of my Flickr groups. I'm hoping for some feedback as to 1) If it's really a big deal and 2) How I can avoid it in the future.

Once I figure that out, I'll go back out and see if this idea has legs. What do you think?

Till tomorrow!