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Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful

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Re: Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful

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Post by eveningcoffee »

DoubleGlazing wrote: post #198
Carpetsmoker wrote: post #174

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To be honest, at least part of this sounds more like inane British "safety" bullshit to me. Jumping on trains is clearly wtf and unacceptable, but no tripods because "too dangerous"? Yeah nah. If you're getting a lot of abuse then your system probably stinks, as, by and large, people aren't assholes or want to be angry. They just want to take their holiday snaps, you know. So here's an alternative take: just let peop…

The railway exists to give all its patrons a fun day out. When people with tripods and massive lenses ruins it for the family who just want to take a quick smartphone family picture in front of the old train, then we have a problem. There have been multiple instance where the tripod guy has prevented a child a quick picture because they see their picture as more important. Leave aside the safety issues. When people s…

> There have been multiple instance where the tripod guy has prevented a child a quick picture because they see their picture as more important.

I think that there is virtue in patience.

That tripod guy has patience to setup the tripod and camera and carefully compose the shot for perfection because this might be his way to have a perfect Sunday.

Why do you want to deny this because somebody does not have enough patience to wait a little?

Re: Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful

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Post by sowbug »

astura wrote: post #195
J-dawg wrote: post #119

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Absolutely. It seems to have become popular to value "experiences over things" as if that's somehow virtuous and makes you better than materialistic people who just want to accumulate stuff. It's really just another branch of the same kind of materialism. The mating signal thing is crazy too. I recently dabbled in dating apps (hopefully, never again). It seems virtually every woman on there is obsessed with travel (h…

This is the first time I've ever head the term "wanderlust" and it sincerely hope its the last.

Here's your second.

The first time I encountered the word was in 1980, reading a 1969 comic book containing the phrase "The Wanderlust begins to rise in my bosom!" Phineas T. Phreak was speaking, and I think he ended up going to Disneyland with two of his friends (with hilarious results).

Re: Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful

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Post by J-dawg »

astura wrote: post #195
J-dawg wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. It seems to have become popular to value "experiences over things" as if that's somehow virtuous and makes you better than materialistic people who just want to accumulate stuff. It's really just another branch of the same kind of materialism. The mating signal thing is crazy too. I recently dabbled in dating apps (hopefully, never again). It seems virtually every woman on there is obsessed with travel (h…

This is the first time I've ever head the term "wanderlust" and it sincerely hope its the last.

My sincere apologies

Re: Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful

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Post by alteria »

bri3d wrote: post #21
jrockway wrote: post #3

This just sounds like poor law enforcement to me. Stopping your car on the side of the road is typically legal. Photographing something from public property is legal in the US. What isn't legal is littering, trespassing, and theft. If you were there to damage the lavender because you thought that would be a fun thing to do, that to me is the same as being there because you want to take a selfie. You should be arreste…

This is true of the first anecdote about the private property, but the other issues are still issues. We have a few “hot” locations in Colorado, most notably Maroon Bells in leaf season, and the level of general disrespect is shocking: ladders, fights, overcrowded parking, and so on. Sadly I have no idea what a solution is - the land is public and limiting access numbers is exclusionary and easy for the privileged to…

I was in the area the week that the road opened up and went for a sunrise. I was the second person there at 4am, but by 5-6am there were around 30 people there!

I can't even imagine what Maroon Bells is like during high season.

Re: Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful

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Post by handoflixue »

eveningcoffee wrote: post #201
DoubleGlazing wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The railway exists to give all its patrons a fun day out. When people with tripods and massive lenses ruins it for the family who just want to take a quick smartphone family picture in front of the old train, then we have a problem. There have been multiple instance where the tripod guy has prevented a child a quick picture because they see their picture as more important. Leave aside the safety issues. When people s…

> There have been multiple instance where the tripod guy has prevented a child a quick picture because they see their picture as more important. I think that there is virtue in patience. That tripod guy has patience to setup the tripod and camera and carefully compose the shot for perfection because this might be his way to have a perfect Sunday. Why do you want to deny this because somebody does not have enough pati…

Children generally only take up the space for a few seconds, so being patient with them is easy. Someone who is taking their time setting up a tripod is blocking the space for significantly longer. If you want to close off a space for a while so that you can carefully compose the perfect shot, either do it somewhere remote or consult with the owners to arrange an appropriate time.

Re: Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful

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Post by dang »

guelo wrote: post #52
siphon22 wrote: post #29

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It's a meme to make fun of Americans in "flyover countries" for not having passports. People who have only lived in the place they were born are made fun of for not being traveled, and therefore not cultured. Is it a surprise then that more and more people want to travel in order to signal that they aren't an uncultured, passport-less hillbilly? The key thing to note here is that someone who does not have any regard…

Why are so many of you people in flyover country always feeling so agrieved about everything? This has nothing to do with putting you down. A bunch of u s urbanites are also annoyed by this phenomena.

Please don't take HN threads further into regional flamewar.

Re: Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful

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Post by nativespecies »

dustinmoris wrote: post #88

Wow the last photo of Angor Wat is shocking. I actually feel sick and disgusted by looking at this photo. I travelled South East Asia extensively in 2012 when Instagram was not a thing (yet) and honestly this place was almost empty and one of the most magical things I've ever seen. If I was to go there today and this would be my experience then I would have never gotten the travel bug. What's wrong with these people,…

So your experience is ok since it happened in 2012. Got it.
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