I remember once setting up at the Grand Canyon with my 8x10 on the rim, this photographer approached me, saying he was the "designated Grand Canyon Photographer" or something like that, criticizing me for "putting [my] tripod into the tripod holes of the man before me." Certainly that was true at that moment, but I recall feeling incensed that he should think this was the only shot I would be likely to take on the rim. Those crowds snapping on the river bank just look silly. Originality is something artists have to learn early in their careers, or they never get anywhere. On the other hand, there are certain subjects everyone is drawn to. I could spend weeks photographing the Death Valley or Oceano Dunes, but I'd be looking for shots no one had ever seen before. Of course, folks can take pictures of anything they want, but few are worth looking at afterwards.
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I remember once setting up at the Grand Canyon with my 8x10 on the rim, this photographer approached me, saying he was the "designated Grand Canyon Photographer" or something like that, criticizing me for "putting [my] tripod into the tripod holes of the man before me." Certainly that was true at that moment, but I recall feeling incensed that he should think this was the only shot I would be likely to take on the rim. Those crowds snapping on the river bank just look silly. Originality is something artists have to learn early in their careers, or they never get anywhere. On the other hand, there are certain subjects everyone is drawn to. I could spend weeks photographing the Death Valley or Oceano Dunes, but I'd be looking for shots no one had ever seen before. Of course, folks can take pictures of anything they want, but few are worth looking at afterwards.
Yes . . . but they were probably having fun!
By the way, I was there once when conditions were just right. (Never going to happen again.)
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