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I like burnzz's photos.  Don't know why you guys are making such a big deal out of it.  It's nice having a semi-real connection to the photographer taking them, allows you to ask questions about the locations and what not as opposed to looking at anonymous google images landscapes. 

Burnz don't listen to the hate

Thanks, Spearhead. At this point in my photography (i still feel i have so much to learn), i don't know if i'm traveling to take pictures, or if taking pictures is why i'm traveling.

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

i like his photos too. i've complimented them. but when i started a conversation (separate to-) about HDR photos he flipped his shit.

uzique, have you considered that the manner in which you start a conversation might have anything to do with the reaction that you get?

Anyways, i'm going to Hawaii at the end of next month. if this account is unlocked by then, i'll gladly post in the appropriate forum.

i'm jealous too - there is something about traveling that is special, and having someone else pay for you to see more of the world is

this is as far south on the lake we got;



that lake is too dam cold, even in the summertime.

Steve-0 wrote:

i'm jealous too - there is something about traveling that is special, and having someone else pay for you to see more of the world is

this is as far south on the lake we got;

that lake is too dam cold, even in the summertime.

These are just happy snaps but just to give you an idea:







Think we got a dirty hotdog from that little kitchen there



My brother (right) and his best mate sitting on the bench to the right, looking at their iPhones

Only person here today, Radiohead setting the mood.

i do think photography and the visual is over-privileged in today's society. people take photos of everything. there was a time when a photo was a figurative mnemonic snapshot of a time & place, but nowadays the all-pervasive nature of cameras and photos has removed that lustre, a little, i think. people photograph everything, and the photo medium is starting to pre-empt reality. look at all the people who can't go to a public event or a concert or an art gallery without having to... photograph or film the whole thing. it's because photography is so embedded in web2.0 social media: it's a 'snap it to document that you were there' thing (q.v. burnzz's above comment about a confusion of motivations, between the trip-in-itself and the photography-for-itself). i guess you could schematize it generally as photography going from an internal-personal 'memory' thing to an external-social 'look what i'm doing' display; the 'photo-album' format moving from the family chest to the virtual space. people always take photographs - of locations, of foods, of nights-out - because it's almost as if, by pressing the shutter button down, they are making their experience real. that's a little frightening (not to mention wearying) for me. holographic futures.

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Spearhead wrote:

Why spend money on a vacation when you can just go to wikipedia and see any location in the world?  /sarcasm

Whats creepy is that in the next 20 or 30 years they'll probably have interactive video games for tourists.  Download it and walk around a photo-realistic 3d representation of a famous landmark, like a documentary style Bioshock game or something.  Perhaps they will even have smells and touch and temperature made possible by augmented reality suits.  All in the comfort of your living room.

That might be cool. I hate tourists.

Macbeth wrote:

Tourist hate is so lame

You don't them getting in your way every day. Every day I'm going through Penn Station and the area around it and all I see are people walking aimlessly trying to figure out where they are and where they're going, or hauling around suitcases on wheels behind them, or stopping in inconvenient places like the middle of a walkway. Great, come to the city, look around, see the sites, whatever, enjoy yourselves, I'll even give you directions to Times Square if you ask, if it will get you out of high traffic commuter areas more quickly.. I just hate when I'm in a hurry and purposeless people are wandering and meandering in front of me.

wut

RTHKI wrote:

wut

go wut yer mum

Jay wrote:

Spearhead wrote:

Why spend money on a vacation when you can just go to wikipedia and see any location in the world?  /sarcasm

Whats creepy is that in the next 20 or 30 years they'll probably have interactive video games for tourists.  Download it and walk around a photo-realistic 3d representation of a famous landmark, like a documentary style Bioshock game or something.  Perhaps they will even have smells and touch and temperature made possible by augmented reality suits.  All in the comfort of your living room.

That might be cool. I hate tourists.

every european you met secretly thought you were fat and brash.

whenever I see someone at an event constantly standing there taking pictures I want to take their picture taking device and smash them in the face with it

Cisse wrote:

whenever I see someone at an event constantly standing there taking pictures I want to take their picture taking device and smash them in the face with it

why
what kind of event