We’ve all been there. Let’s see if you recognize this situation.

I’m imagining a new stock photography project.

I have an activity in mind. I have a model in mind. I visualize a location with specific qualities –– the light comes from a certain direction, the background looks one way, the foreground another.

In my imagination, everything is perfect.

Then reality intrudes: “I’ll never find a place with all those features. I only have so much time before the seasons change. The model is available for only a few days." Any other number of real-life conflicts can put pressure on a photographer.

At this point, I sometimes remember a location with all the necessary features. But I’ve used it before. Is that a problem?

Where is it written that, “Thou canst not use the same location more than once or thy worthless carcass will be cast into the fires of hell?”

There is no commandment that says a location is good for only one shoot. And there are good reasons to milk a rare location for everything it is worth.

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