Travel photos are underrated

I like to take photos because it brings me to places where I'd never go if I wouldn't want to try to take a photo and the stories themselves on how I got the photo are super interesting. Let's take https://jeena.net/photos/301 for example. The story is that me and my brother went to Italy together for one week of a vacation. At the end we went to Rome. I really wanted to get an iconic picture of the Colosseum. I walked around and tried to find an angle which would make for a great photo, then I saw Altare della Patria https://jeena.net/photos/299 and I saw that there are people on top on the roof. That would probably be the perfect place for that photograph. I waited until golden hour and then tried to get up, but sadly there were no stairs, only a lift. And for that lift there was a huge queue. Even worse, they already closed it so I couldn't get there that day. So I went the next day like two hours before golden hour. I went up with the lift and waited. Slowly the light became mor