One thing I look for is inspiration. With my schedule, it's often hard to find the energy, time, and motivation to get out and shoot. It's much to easy to stay with the computer and do other stuff, like massage that photo you've been playing with in Photoshop for over a month just one more time. While it can be a creative enterprise, it is not the same and getting out and trying to capture some of the world around me.
From time to time I need inspiration.
And since I'm visually oriented, I look for visual stimulation/inspiration. More than what you get in a 'how to' video.
I can do that, sometimes, on the web. Reading about other photographer's adventures, projects, and events and seeing the pictures they bring back (or in today's world transmit from some remote location.)
I used to do it from a TV program called "The Canon Safari." It took celebrity photographers to different places to shoot with a professional. If "The Canon Safari" is still around, I haven't found it.
That's why I was excited to see a new program developed by Art Wolfe called Travels to the Edge. The description sounds exactly like what I am looking for....a mix of adventure, great visuals, education (culture, nature, the environment), one well know and excellent photographer, and some technical detail thrown in to the mix. These are the kinds of programs that really get me inspired to get out and shoot. I've already sent mail to WUNC-TV, my local public TV station, asking them to carry the program. This sounds like my kind of thing.
It's also a void in TV that should be filled.
However, it is a high-definition program. Time for that new wide screen TV?
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