The Quarter Century Random Discussion for TPBM (25)

neil_r wrote in post #7968977
I am always amazed with myself as I get increasingly annoyed with someone about 400 yards away from me for not getting out of my shot

More than once I've stood in one spot and waited as much as a half hour for tourons to get out of my shot.

neil_r wrote in post #7968977
I must confess I have shopped people out of pictures, heck I once shopped an entire tour bus out of a pic.

Sometimes people can make the picture.

I am always amazed with myself as I get increasingly annoyed with someone about 400 yards away from me for not getting out of my shot

I've shopped them out too.

I agree that sometimes they can make it. However, a group of baseball hat/flip flop wearing tourons in a gorgeous spanish cathedral do not so much add to a shot.

And, yeah, I've done the anger thing too.

Tourons ... I like it

*inserts "Tourons" into vocabulary list*

Guineh wrote in post #7969000
As an added bonus, you'll have some pretty good opportunities to get some shots of a lynch mob beating up the living mannequin.

SEE! IT's win WIN!

thomascanty wrote in post #7969008
More than once I've stood in one spot and waited as much as a half hour for tourons to get out of my shot.

been there, done that. Sometimes I add a scowl.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #7969029
been there, done that. Sometimes I add a scowl.

G'morn Pirate

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #7969029
been there, done that. Sometimes I add a scowl.

Wouldn't it be quicker to sic TD on them? :p

thomascanty wrote in post #7969008
More than once I've stood in one spot and waited as much as a half hour for tourons to get out of my shot.

More then once I've stood in front of something to just be in the shot. Some would call me an attention seeker, others would call me an a$$. I'll let you come to your own conclusions.

FuryMe wrote in post #7969039
More then once I've stood in front of something to just be in the shot. Some would call me an attention seeker, others would call me an a$$. I'll let you come to your own conclusions.

You like breaking other people's cameras?

FuryMe wrote in post #7969039
More then once I've stood in front of something to just be in the shot. Some would call me an attention seeker, others would call me an a$$. I'll let you come to your own conclusions.

That's my conclusion....^^

sevillafox wrote in post #7969011
I've shopped them out too.

I agree that sometimes they can make it. However, a group of baseball hat/flip flop wearing tourons in a gorgeous spanish cathedral do not so much add to a shot.

And, yeah, I've done the anger thing too.

My brother told me a funny story yesterday, he was in Blarney in Ireland (LINK)

To get up to the stone you have to navigate a vet narrow and steep spiral staircase within the castle. My brother who is both thin and fit (but 60) found it a bit of a struggle.

As they were walking back to the car-park they past the family we all know but don't want to use a racial stereotype for. Fat dad, fat mum two fat kids. My brother who has a wicked sense of the bazar decided that he wanted to visit the Blarney Stone again for no other reason than he wanted to observe the aforesaid families progress up the stairs.

It was all to no avail though as dad had a quick look up the stairs and decided that despite the transatlantic flight and the coach-ride from Dublin, they did not really want to kiss the Blarney Stone at all

FuryMe wrote in post #7969039
More then once I've stood in front of something to just be in the shot. Some would call me an attention seeker, others would call me an a$$. I'll let you come to your own conclusions.

It's funny but people really do that

Like I would really use the shot for anything other than a bin liner.

neil_r wrote in post #7969074
My brother told me a funny story yesterday, he was in Blarney in Ireland (LINK)

To get up to the stone you have to navigate a vet narrow and steep spiral staircase within the castle. My brother who is both thin and fit (but 60) found it a bit of a struggle.

As they were walking back to the car-park they past the family we all know but don't want to use a racial stereotype for. Fat dad, fat mum two fat kids. My brother who has a wicked sense of the bazar decided that he wanted to visit the Blarney Stone again for no other reason than he wanted to observe the aforesaid families progress up the stairs.

It was all to no avail though as dad had a quick look up the stairs and decided that despite the transatlantic flight and the coach-ride from Dublin, they did not really want to kiss the Blarney Stone at all

ROFLMAO!!!

I would have wanted to see it again too.

thomascanty wrote in post #7968859
.. I actually kind of prefer that park over Yosemite anyway, and every time I go there it feels like I have the entire place to myself.

Kings Canyon is sort of the same way. I headed up to the General Sherman sequia which has a nice parkinglot, grabbed all the gear and just past the General Sherman tree, which has lots of tourons, there is the Alta peak trailhead. Once on the trail you quickly leave all the tourons behind. Two days of hiking and not a single soul. It was like we had the whole Seiras to ourselves.

neil_r wrote in post #7968977
I must confess I have shopped people out of pictures, heck I once shopped an entire tour bus out of a pic.

Sometimes people can make the picture.

I am always amazed with myself as I get increasingly annoyed with someone about 400 yards away from me for not getting out of my shot

I routinly take a couple being careful to keep the same settings and camera angle. Makes cropping much easier. This pic had quite a few people on the bridge, but it looked much better empty.

thomascanty wrote in post #7969008
More than once I've stood in one spot and waited as much as a half hour for tourons to get out of my shot.

Shoot two, three pics several seconds apart. People move and it makes shopping them easy.

Guineh wrote in post #7969022
Tourons ... I like it

*inserts "Tourons" into vocabulary list*

Sounds like an alien race.

neil_r wrote in post #7969081
It's funny but people really do that

Like I would really use the shot for anything other than a bin liner.

I was just kidding. I'm very much a hard breaker when I see someone composing a shot. Not that I ever get the same in return.

We gave up trying to compose this shot as the "Park Photographer" would not get out of the picture. I have no problem with the tourists adding to the shot.