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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mike3996" data-source="post: 399341" data-attributes="member: 13646">Man oh man. This would be a long ramble if I didn't self-edit most of the text out.Don't get me wrong. Hyvinkää has plenty of scenery, it has elements (or should I say, fragments) of a nice  small town. It just has to lack (statistically speaking) the number of human elements Helsinki has. But there's architectural abstracts, there's nature, there's landscapes, there's urban scenery, there's farms and tractors. There are some psyche related minor reasons why I currently don't even do photography to my full potential, "limiting" myself to stroll photography. (Not meant in a derogatory way.)Now in my <s>estimations</s> wishful thinking it is likely that Hyvinkää becomes my strolling ground (for photo purposes) and Helsinki and other towns for stroll and street photography. Because I'm away from home, hopefully a different mode sets in my brain. I think it might work for me. I will be combining elements to my visits that currently are reserved for out-of-town* trips only: eating out, having coffee, resting my legs and things like that...*Technically yes, should I move to Hyvinkää Helsinki visits would be such trips. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />...and to spice things up, take a step further and book an occasional hotel or AirBnB to make it an overnighter. In fact I made an estimation that money saved from this move will net me enough to make fifty trips to Helsinki with a cheap night in a hotel, coffee, lunch. Fifty, that would mean weekly. But I won't be doing trips every weekend. I won't need to. Hyvinkää has its things. "Worst" case scenario, I will reduce my photo hobby to pursue my other passions that are more likely to advance my career.Circling back to this I say I aspire to be a street photographer but my work for the last 2 years or so doesn't meet my own  bar of street photography. Of course COVID times hinder things further but this was in the stars before it. My recent stuff --- low on people, heavier on light and natural beauty --- can be made almost anywhere. It might pay off to force myself attempt my ideal styles of photography and live in a city but then again, it's a lot of cost and maybe letting my photographical style fall on me naturally without forcing is a good idea.</blockquote>

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