I love looking at portfolios of photographers. It tells a lot where they have been. Almost all of them have such stunning, remarkable, admirable, and awesome images. How did they get those photos? The bottom line is: they were there.
From the microscopic slimey amoeba of a laboratory petri dish to the vast expanse of the continental ice shelf of the South Pole, the ravaged war torn streets of civil wars, the grand palette of the natural environment, these images never cease to elicit admiration.
Photography is where you have been.