Some people automatically record experiences in their lives with their cameras–or these days their phones. Not me. Too often, by the time I think that I should go for a specific shot, the moment and the opportunity have passed. But during last week’s five day eating, drinking, walking and music tour of New Orleans, all that changed. To be honest, it wasn’t my idea. My brother, Jeff Gross, who has written a screenplay based in Nola which he will hopefully be directing soon, asked me to snap pics of anything and everything that caught my eye.
The exercise not only helped me chronicle my trip, it taught me to look at my environment very differently. Over the next several blog posts, I’ll show you exactly what I mean. So get ready for a multi-faceted New Orleans armchair getaway in which I’ll show you how using photographs can help you really see—and remember—the details around you.
As you’ve probably already figured out, we’re starting with a tour of places. In subsequent blog posts, we’ll move to people, signs, food and drink (after all I did visit New Orleans) and finally to details that you might never even notice without a camera in hand.
As you look at the photographs, just imagine how differently you could look at your own world, and how using photographs to help writing could prompt you to bring the settings in your book to life.
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