Posted by David Bamford on March 03, 2004 at 21:01:09 from 203.10.110.131 user David.
In Reply to: Re: UK Lit'rary Tourism (Sense of Place) posted by Mike Dennis on March 02, 2004 at 07:44:54:
There's a parallel here in tourist's photographs. We get a lot of Japanese tourists here in southern Australia, and I have often seen them taking their photos. Always there are as many of the group as possible in the foreground, with the local feature very much in the background, and often obscured. My own preference is to take photographs of the local scenery without a soul in it. At Castlerigg I had to wait for a busload of tourists to go away, leaving just one other person sitting on a stone, who I could not avoid.
David.