Choosing a Theme for Your Personal Photo Album

After a move that saw a reorientation of priorities, a photographer is set to return to their craft with a fresh focus. The individual, who has been away from photography due to a recent apartment change, is now embarking on a photo book project, with intimate landscape photography set to become one of the primary focuses for several years.

The theme for the photo book is crucial, as the photographer plans to spend potentially several years capturing images. It needs to resonate deeply, allowing for a sense of discovery and learning new skills. The theme should be capable of being captured both in the photographer's home state and far away, and should allow for a significant variety of photos, while still having a thread to connect them all.

The photographer has started working on multiple potential themes, including the mountain backcountry, nighttime landscape photography, the Continental Divide, aspen forests, and sand dune photography. However, the theme of intimate landscape photography seems to fulfill all of the photographer's requirements and works in all the different locations they had been considering, from the Colorado backcountry to international destinations.

Intimate landscape photography is a sub-genre of landscape photography that focuses on smaller and more abstract scenes, often close-ups, capturing nature's unique and often temporary beauty. The photographer has written about this sub-genre before and has long considered it a sub-genre they'd like to explore more.

The moving process was seen as a fresh start, with the photographer having discarded excess items and reoriented their life towards important aspects, including the photo book project. The individual's priority list for future travels has changed dramatically, probably for the more unique, due to their focus on intimate landscape photography.

Adam Sheridan, a fellow website writer, suggested working on multiple potential themes for the photo book simultaneously and allowing the most resonant idea to reveal itself with time. The photographer is considering this approach, looking forward to returning to certain types of photography and having a sense of which parts they miss the most.

As the photographer delves deeper into their new focus, they are eager to share their journey and the resulting images in a beautifully crafted photo book. The project promises to be a testament to the beauty of nature, captured in intimate and unique ways, and a reflection of the photographer's passion for their craft.