Remember tourist or traveller?

[Threeteas]

This may be better suited to the photography thread, but I have noticed something on this ride:

There are people who take photographs when they stop.
There are people who stop to take photographs.

They are not the same.

Tourist vs Traveller?

 

[Vagabird]

I once took a 90 day tour of the States and came home with only about a dozen pictures. It was the trip of a lifetime, but my neighbor was unhappy that I didn't have much to share about my trip.

After joining this forum and seeing the ride reports, now I will even circle back to stop for a picture. You people are a bad influence.

 

[testinglogin]

I'm guilty of having the "must get there" mindset, and I hate stopping. I don't drink much (water) when I ride because I don't want to stop for the bathroom unless I'm already stopping for fuel. That has not served me very well as it's bad for my body and may be the reason I had a horribly painful kidney stone, recently.

So, I'll drink more and take more photos when I stop to use the bathroom, or just use the bathroom while I'm taking pictures. I'm trying to learn from someone I ride with too infrequently who always stops to get photos along the way.

 

[BUBBAZANETTI]

I'm guilty of having the "must get there" mindset, and I hate stopping.

me too, i never take pictures for this reason, i always think i'll miss something if i take time to stop and smell the roses.

 

[177195]

Back in'93,when I rode the USA 4 corners tour,I snapped a total of 4 pics,one at each of the required corners.

 

[PAULBACH]

Bubba it is to stop and smell the spline lube !

Furthermore

You are judged by the sum of your experience's, not by how much money you make.

The best adventure bike in the world is the one you are on ( what is best for you ).

Have you been invited to serve on a pipeline committee in the Last Frontier. You could take a lot of pictures there.

 

[The_Veg]

I'm guilty of having the "must get there" mindset, and I hate stopping. I don't drink much (water) when I ride because I don't want to stop for the bathroom unless I'm already stopping for fuel. That has not served me very well as it's bad for my body and may be the reason I had a horribly painful kidney stone, recently.

So, I'll drink more and take more photos when I stop to use the bathroom, or just use the bathroom while I'm taking pictures. I'm trying to learn from someone I ride with too infrequently who always stops to get photos along the way.

Remind me, next time we're standing around in the Biergarten, to tell you the story of how I managed to dehydrate myself riding home from Lima. Very scary incident.

 

[john1691]

A friend of mine (Shorty, on this forum), has taken to trying to take at least one picture per ride. His theme is "rustic barns", so when we find some old falling down barn, we circle around, line up the bikes and snap away. It usually requires us to ride down some dirt lane (on our K1200RS/S), but it gives us a chance to hone our dirt skills.

 

[henzilla]

then there are those among us that take pictures while we ride Love hearing the crackle of the Autocomm saying..." PUT THE CAMERA DOWN!"

the few occasions I want to stop for a perfect picture are the times I forgot the camera

 

[voni]

I used to ride and never take pictures. Then I met King Gately, founder of the RAT tour. I still never printed my digital pictures but he convinced me to stop and take those pictures. He isn't with us any more but he did teach me to stop and smell the RED roses ; )

Here's to Gately!

Voni
sMiling

 

[Threeteas]

I'm suffering from scenic splendour overload and this is highly detrimental to my picture taking, as I am almost always convinced a better shot will be around the corner and fail to take the image I should have.

Honestly Panama is just one landscape shot after another. Detail or wide vista, all are fantastic. I've fallen back on video as a possible way to capture as much as possible, but as a format it can lack that certain magic that comes from capturing an ephemeral moment in a still image.

 

[Vagabird]

I'm suffering from scenic splendour overload and this is highly detrimental to my picture taking, as I am almost always convinced a better shot will be around the corner and fail to take the image I should have.

I felt that way on my ride to Alaska. Ho-hum, another gorgeous lake surrounded by trees with gorgeous mountains in the background. How repititious.