The presence of the other tourists may be annoying but they do have just as much right to be there as we do. It's interesting to be hanging out someplace like Sunset Point at Bryce and contemplate just how many different languages are being spoken around you.
I like the Zion shuttle as well - but that's a different thing. Other tourists is fine, I agree we all have an equal right to be there. Where I struggle is the large tour buses that heard people from icon to icon where they completely take over the spot for half an hour - and then move on to the next. I'd just like to restrict the size of those buses in the national parks.The presence of the other tourists may be annoying but they do have just as much right to be there as we do. It's interesting to be hanging out someplace like Sunset Point at Bryce and contemplate just how many different languages are being spoken around you.
I like the buses in Zion - I get to rubberneck all I want without running my car into the Virgin River
I hear you loud and clear on the big buses - I have been swarmed more than once from one of those belching out passengers. And for the record last time I drove past the parking lot to Lower Antelope there were two of them in there and 4 over at the Upper Canyon parking lot.
Beautiful perspective, Guy. Can you shrink the greatest dimension to 10 inches on your verticals so that I can see it all at once. It ruins it for me if I have to scroll through the image to see the whole thing.
I'm with Monica on this one. Here is an image of Manebezho Falls in Porcupine Mountains State Park in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. An Asian invasion attacked me as well. I was there first, they came and I wanted to relocate to a different perspective. I had to wait for over an hour before they finished and much of the time they were just chatting.Had to think about the date for a minute - a new year for falling water images.
I have another set of unnamed falls along (you guessed it) Sweet Creek. There is one more set above this before you get to the falls actually named Sweet Creek Falls.
Pile on with your own waterfall images....
Very nice, Alan.Had to think about the date for a minute - a new year for falling water images.
I have another set of unnamed falls along (you guessed it) Sweet Creek. There is one more set above this before you get to the falls actually named Sweet Creek Falls.
Pile on with your own waterfall images....
Nice patterns here, Tom.
Beautiful light and perspective, Kyle.
Nice job, Monica. I know exactly what you are talking about. See my post below.Tower Falls in Yellowstone, taken between busloads of Japanese tourists. I had almost set up when all of a sudden, I was completely surrounded by Japanese tourists, all crowding as close to my as they could. On top, squeezing under, leaning in from the sides -- it could have been Mesa Arch
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Very nice composition here, Mike.
I love the way the logs frame the falls, Zeph. Nice job.
I love the way the logs frame the falls, Zeph. Nice job.
A wonderful mood here, Jim.Here is one from a winter in Yosemite, so I went B&W since the colors were drab.
And yeah, I probably have enough photos to never have to shoot another waterfall photo and still have enough to post for years.
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I like the way you incorporated the foreground setting with these falls. Good eye.
While these incidents are regrettable, they still "only" impact a photograph (important as they may be to us). There was an account of Chinese tourists in Iceland who rented a 4x4 and did donuts in the fragile highlands, tearing up the moss & other undergrowth which can take 50 years to recover. Luckily, in this age of everybody photographing or video-ing everything with their phones, they were caught on video, the video was turned over to authorities & the culprits were caught. They were made to "restore" the area they tore up, but, as I said, (according to my friend in Iceland) it takes 50 (or more) years for the fragile land to recover. When I was there a few years ago, the year that China started allowing their citizens to go to Iceland, I noticed that the Chinese tourists were speaking Cantonese, not Mandarin as most Chinese tourists I've encountered in the past. And the Chinese are not the only ones who think that "off road driving" means driving in roadless areas. There are many Europeans who have been driving across the grass/moss in Iceland (as well as driving way too fast on the back country roads, sometimes forgetting which side they're supposed to be on, or having the thrill of big spray when they gun it through a river crossing, not knowing that they're trashing the river bed. As a side note here: many of the rental companies have license plates on the front of the vehicles that come off with the back pressure of water washing up behind the plates with river crossings. No insurance covers damage to the vehicle with river crossings, so if you return a rental sans front license plate, they know that you were doing something you weren't insured for.)
I'd rather be behind a shuttle bus that moves from stop to stop to disgorge its passengers than a passenger car/truck that stops in the middle of the road to watch animals or let somebody take a picture either from the vehicle or hops out to take a snapshot. And seeing a tour bus parked at the trailhead of a popular area lets me know to go somewhere less popular (another trail or go in the opposite direction). As hard as this is to believe, I've even seen a tour bus at White Pocket..... It was even parked down below the main parking area, where there's a pretty sandy hill. I swore then I'd never go there over or close to a weekend again!
