Thank you everyone for the support
I didn't really think about this, but it's true. I really don't think you can visit a place once and say that you know it. Places are a lot like people, even if you try to look deeper, you don't know a person after meeting them for the first time. It takes time to understand them, partly because you're blinded by the big things when you first meet them, and it takes time to be able to look past them to see what's underneath, but also because they don't necessarily show you everything about themselves all at once. Places change day to day, they change over the course of the year, and over the years. To not go some place just because you've already been is to close yourself off to growth, because if there's one thing that's constant in the universe, it's change. You have to be patient with a place, give it time to open itself up to you, and give yourself time to open up and take it all in, otherwise you can end up overlooking so much beauty, missing out on a lot of great opportunities and experiences.
It really is, I mean if anything the person should count themselves lucky I haven't posted all of the photos I've taken there, which currently numbers around 1,200. I've been composing shots there in my head since the first time I went, which was long before I had a camera to take them. Visiting new places can be exciting, but I'm not always looking for exciting, sometimes I just want to take the time to appreciate the familiar, some place quiet to get away from the noise of the world and wind down. And honestly, when I'm there, it's a lot easier for me to remember what it feels like to be cared about.
I don't know, I'm happy with what I'm doing, and the pace that I've had. I've hit a lot of really nice new places since picking up my camera, and I don't really want to go any faster. It takes time to take a place in and appreciate it. I've gone to places in a rush, and the photos always come out like crap. I like to meander, gaze a bit, and then the pictures present themselves to me. I don't go looking for them, I just wander around until something clicks and I feel like "That would be a good picture".
I think I'm going to turn off anon on that Tumblr, I'm too much the type to take negative criticism to heart, and much though I need to work on that, I'd rather just avoid it for the time being. People are much more likely to be constructive in their criticism when they have to tie their face and name to their comments.
It's my Tumblr, and I'll do what I want.