I hear what you are saying, P.J. but I would submit that there is a lot more that goes into a photograph than just the location of the thing to photograph (or even where to stand to get a particular view). There is the time of year, time of day (and resulting shadows from the combination of those two), the weather (esp. for outdoor locales), the light conditions (based upon the combination of light conditions and time of day). That ignores all of the photographers choices such as focal length, where to position oneself, the shutter speed and depth of field chosen, filters (like polarizer or gradient ND) etc. It also ignores the choices that one can make with more oddball things like pinhole cameras, infrared, full moon illuminated long exposure at night scenes, etc.
I, for one, would find such guides invaluable for making trip decision like where to camp. When to get up to be able to hike to a certain spot before sunrise. Where to be during the golden hours, etc. Particularly if I was unfamiliar with the area or it was my first trip. Also, none of this precludes our taking photographs of other things along the way, from locations NOT pinpointed on the map. I can see how such guides could lead to more congestion in those spots than there would otherwise be, at least during the peak tourist seasons, but probably only marginally so. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
