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Indeed this is true from my experience... moments of insight into beauty (which make me want to take a picture) seem to occur much more when I'm away from home.

• jbay808 5y ago
  This is why I love showing tourists around my home city. They notice so many special things that have long since faded into the background for me. For example I was taking four Japanese grad students to a local park famous for its hikes and waterfalls. But the thing that made them jump up and start pointing and taking pictures was when a yellow school bus drove by. Look, look! It's Snoopy! It's a real yellow bus, just like in Snoopy!"
  • saghm 5y ago
    When my eldest brother was in high school, he did a two-week exchange program with a high school in Italy (where an Italian student came to stay with us for two weeks, and later my brother went and stayed with that student and his family for two weeks). I was fairly young at the time, but I distinctly remember when all the Italian students went out into the city to do some sight-seeing and he came back with basically his entire camera roll filled with pictures of squirrels, and apparently most of his friends had done the same.
    • markdown 5y ago
      If you lived in a country that doesn't have them and your only exposure to them is Disney movies, you'd be awed by squirrels too. I'd have done the same as your Italian guest did. The same with deer. Amazing to see deer just walking through American backyards.
      • thaumasiotes 5y ago
        > Amazing to see deer just walking through American backyards. Americans don't understand how underpopulated their country is compared to the Old World.
      • saghm 5y ago
        Yep, I totally understand! I just didn't have this understanding back when I was really young