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Sep 7, 2015 11:53:08 #
Rick from NY
Loc: Sarasota FL
[quote=teesquare]That may be for 3 reasons:
1.Because it is incredibly crowded until the leaves fall of the trees. Used to be, there were the summer tourists, then the leaf peppers. @ relatively short periods, then the park would " get a rest ". Not anymore. It has become like a zoo, where one can go - to see humans - many acting like animals - in what would be their "native habitat" - if they had not lived in cities for thousands of years and forgotten the value of NOT ruining the land with trash, carving initials in trees, and creating havoc as a pastime :lol:
2. I don't think the OP expressed a desire to defend her equipment for breakage due to the above mentioned throngs of hellions, and situationally unaware folks that crowd the park - i.e. "gee- I am so sorry about your camera going off the overlook....I didn't see you standing there with that big tripod.." :roll: :wink:
3. It is in reality more like 1-12/2 hour to great shooting in the GSNP from Asheville. Yes, the parks eastern most boundaries may be only 45 minutes away - but that as they say...is "marketing spin" :thumbup:/quote]
Points understood - especially the one about the ignorant people who trash the park, but just because a park is super crowded should not prevent one from visiting. Yellowstone, Yosemite and Zion and all of the others are perpetually jammed as well, but no landscape/nature photographer should miss them.
Reminds me of the old Yogi Berra-ism, "No one ever goes there anymore. It is always too crowded."
1.Because it is incredibly crowded until the leaves fall of the trees. Used to be, there were the summer tourists, then the leaf peppers. @ relatively short periods, then the park would " get a rest ". Not anymore. It has become like a zoo, where one can go - to see humans - many acting like animals - in what would be their "native habitat" - if they had not lived in cities for thousands of years and forgotten the value of NOT ruining the land with trash, carving initials in trees, and creating havoc as a pastime :lol:
2. I don't think the OP expressed a desire to defend her equipment for breakage due to the above mentioned throngs of hellions, and situationally unaware folks that crowd the park - i.e. "gee- I am so sorry about your camera going off the overlook....I didn't see you standing there with that big tripod.." :roll: :wink:
3. It is in reality more like 1-12/2 hour to great shooting in the GSNP from Asheville. Yes, the parks eastern most boundaries may be only 45 minutes away - but that as they say...is "marketing spin" :thumbup:/quote]
Points understood - especially the one about the ignorant people who trash the park, but just because a park is super crowded should not prevent one from visiting. Yellowstone, Yosemite and Zion and all of the others are perpetually jammed as well, but no landscape/nature photographer should miss them.
Reminds me of the old Yogi Berra-ism, "No one ever goes there anymore. It is always too crowded."
Sep 7, 2015 13:36:24 #
teesquare
Loc: USA
[quote=Rick from NY]
Perhaps your ubarnite perspective is different than one that chooses the natural world to dwell in - vs - the "concrete jungle"? :lol:
Flatly - I do not like cities. They are completely artificial contrivances, polluted by the un-natural overpopulation they contain - and all of the negatives that result from such. It - for me - overshadows all of the positives that one can beat their chest and proclaim that they are from the epicenter of culture!
I believe some of that type feed the bears, and become "hood ornaments" for bison every year at parks - don't they?:lol:
The evidence for my feelings is clearly borne out on the evening news - everyday. I have seen most of the great cities of this world, and - they confirm my observations that man was not meant to - nor does he improve his own quality of live by living piled upon one another and compressed in buses, or tubes to carry him to and fro.
So, no thank you. If I wanted to deal with ill mannered, rude,brash - as well as thug thieves, robbers and pick-pockets as groups of people who have no real interest in preserving the environment that they are "oohing and aahing" about....then - I might be convinced to be a "lemming" as those crowds appear to me. Rushing about, trampling over ground that they will leave after the weekend.
I do take full advantage - of finding spots that "tourists" will not find. I do travel I am quiet on the land, and among crowds when un-avaiodable. And I completely detest the existence that some folks just shrug off, as they return to their tenements, and apartments.
But - that does not make you or anyone else wrong or less than intelligent. Just different than the way that I choose to live.
The problem is when people leave their artificial confines of the city - and want to come out "here". They often forget - or maybe they never knew how to be human - without the city environs. Really a shame.....
teesquare wrote:
That may be for 3 reasons: br 1.Because it is incr... (show quote)
Perhaps your ubarnite perspective is different than one that chooses the natural world to dwell in - vs - the "concrete jungle"? :lol:
Flatly - I do not like cities. They are completely artificial contrivances, polluted by the un-natural overpopulation they contain - and all of the negatives that result from such. It - for me - overshadows all of the positives that one can beat their chest and proclaim that they are from the epicenter of culture!
I believe some of that type feed the bears, and become "hood ornaments" for bison every year at parks - don't they?:lol:
The evidence for my feelings is clearly borne out on the evening news - everyday. I have seen most of the great cities of this world, and - they confirm my observations that man was not meant to - nor does he improve his own quality of live by living piled upon one another and compressed in buses, or tubes to carry him to and fro.
So, no thank you. If I wanted to deal with ill mannered, rude,brash - as well as thug thieves, robbers and pick-pockets as groups of people who have no real interest in preserving the environment that they are "oohing and aahing" about....then - I might be convinced to be a "lemming" as those crowds appear to me. Rushing about, trampling over ground that they will leave after the weekend.
I do take full advantage - of finding spots that "tourists" will not find. I do travel I am quiet on the land, and among crowds when un-avaiodable. And I completely detest the existence that some folks just shrug off, as they return to their tenements, and apartments.
But - that does not make you or anyone else wrong or less than intelligent. Just different than the way that I choose to live.
The problem is when people leave their artificial confines of the city - and want to come out "here". They often forget - or maybe they never knew how to be human - without the city environs. Really a shame.....
Sep 7, 2015 14:15:03 #
cday
Loc: North Carolina
Biltmore House for sure...and all parts associated with it. Parkway, Cherokee if you have time...
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Sep 7, 2015 15:00:58 #
Cataloochee Valley for pictures of Elk. Get there by exiting I-40 at exit 20 and follow directions. Get there by 4 p.m. and leave before dark. Road to the valley can be fun.
Sep 7, 2015 20:39:02 #
The very best place to see is the Biltmore Estate. It is a Vanderbilt home which is really a large french chateau built in the smokeys. It is a little pricey but well worth it and you will spend all day there. Google it and you will be amazed.
Sep 7, 2015 21:04:21 #
Drive over to hot springs an go to Max patch, worth every min of the drive to get there. About 50 min drive.
Sep 8, 2015 07:48:35 #
MTG44 wrote:
The very best place to see is the Biltmore Estate. It is a Vanderbilt home which is really a large french chateau built in the smokeys. It is a little pricey but well worth it and you will spend all day there. Google it and you will be amazed.
I think the OP started that she did not want to go there, implying she had been there already
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