andywon
Touched
Imagine you are at the Mesquite Dunes in Death Valley. It's very hot, yet beautiful all around you. But you have to walk for miles and miles until you finally find a nice, untouched spot with no other tourists around you. Above all: The spot has no footprints in your camera's view. You feel very delighted, carefully adjust your composition and wait for the sun to come down at just the right angle to illuminate the beautiful scenery in front of you. Then, suddenly, a few minutes before sunset a Japanese tourist appears on one of the dunes in front of you. He walks directly towards you. You gesticulate loudly but he keeps getting closer. Finally, after what seems to be like an eternity, he sees you and follows the directions you gave him. The good thing is that his footprints are barely visible in the picture. The bad thing is that because of all this fuss you completely forgot about your camera and missed the right moment. You didn't adjust your composition according to the changing shadows. And you even overexposed. This is what happened to me at Death Valley. Still, the view was so magnificent in front of me that I still had to upload the photo here which I took. If you look closely, you can even see the footprints from the Japanese tourist.
Touched
Imagine you are at the Mesquite Dunes in Death Valley. It's very hot, yet beautiful all around you. But you have to walk for miles and miles until you finally find a nice, untouched spot with no other tourists around you. Above all: The spot has no footprints in your camera's view. You feel very delighted, carefully adjust your composition and wait for the sun to come down at just the right angle to illuminate the beautiful scenery in front of you. Then, suddenly, a few minutes before sunset a Japanese tourist appears on one of the dunes in front of you. He walks directly towards you. You gesticulate loudly but he keeps getting closer. Finally, after what seems to be like an eternity, he sees you and follows the directions you gave him. The good thing is that his footprints are barely visible in the picture. The bad thing is that because of all this fuss you completely forgot about your camera and missed the right moment. You didn't adjust your composition according to the changing shadows. And you even overexposed. This is what happened to me at Death Valley. Still, the view was so magnificent in front of me that I still had to upload the photo here which I took. If you look closely, you can even see the footprints from the Japanese tourist.