You sound like me. Live in a medium sized extremely boring town and currently skint and carless with COVID so I've been travelling further and further distances in the last few months to shoot new features and landscape just to try new things
1. Absolutely, in fact it's driven me to learn, explore and progress further than I otherwise would've in the last couple months
2. Studio work, paid work and working with people and your business are what push you further and faster and matter most in photography once you have the basics down- so long as that's still possible then it makes no difference outside of convenience
3. There's nothing wrong with taking a bit longer to reach your goals anyway, especially if you're hobby focused, and photography is so multi-faceted and wide that there's a million things you can learn or practice and a million routes you can take that are perfectly viable wherever you are
My instagram is fairly travel and natural landscape focused and yet I barely travel and have virtually no interesting landscape around me, it's just that I make the most of the times I do travel and try to take the camera with me wherever possible
>>3647700>I know that sounds abstract/useless but if you cant create a solid composition regularly then there's really no point of traveling somewhere else to take pictures. you might end up with similarly bad pictures.Very much this. Once you have a handful of good techniques and compositions in your bag you can often make a good photo anywhere.
If you told me 90% of my instagram would be within a 2 mile radius when I started I'd have laughed at you but it's 100% the case once you know what you're doing
