I hadn´t intended on blogging while out of the country, but this particular observation has been with me for two days now so I think it´s worth putting down.
While taking a walking tour of the Alhambra I couldn't help but stop to notice the picture hungry tourists. I was amazed by the number of people at the Alhambra and even today in Sevilla (at the Cathedral) who were clicking away nonstop. The Cathedral today was a barrage of flash photography so much so that I felt like I was a celebrity on the red carpet. The HyWy made a good point about how amazing it would be if major monuments would not allow photography of any kind and what an effect it would have on the tourist experience. We both agreed that the experienced would be significantly different for the photographer and the person affected by the photography. I don´t believe the photographers are truly experiencing the beauty they are surrounded by because they are absorbed in capturing the ¨next great Nat´l Geographic Photo¨or great photo for Facebook. I understand the need to capture memories, but at a certain point I think people are blindly shooting everything that seems good. It is definitely distracting from my experience of the particular attraction, but how do you sway 20+ individuals clicking away. I think this tendancy has grown in the last 5-10 years with the proliferation of digital cameras such that every individual seems to fancy themselves as they next Ansel Adams. I´m sure I am being harsh, but I think I´m just being real.
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I remember being at the Louvre and a tourist came walking through one of the halls with his video camera on and talking in to it. He did not stop to look at the paintings or select certain ones to film. For him it was more important to record the moment than sit down and enjoy it.
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