What you say about REMOTE backcountry areas is true but more generally the notion of placing images of secret places on the public Internet has issues.maverick wrote:First I would like to address the idea that if someone posts a picture or posts
a TR to a remote location than all of a sudden it will be over run by crowds
of DSLR toting photographers or inexperienced backpackers...
Hardly anyone knew about Torres del Paine in Chile until this Internet age but now in just a few years has become a Mecca for climbers and photographers.
For the first few years the Internet was mainly just a text medium with small images. As bandwidth increased at the begining of the millenium so did image sizes and numbers of images. The first few years people were somewhat open about images they publicly posted and information about those images in early web communities. A lot of my work the last couple decades has been during spring with wildflowers. Such places are not in remote wildernesses but rather along roads and day hiked to. There have been several places like these two areas that a decade plus ago just had a few people visit each spring in wet years when wildflowers are peaking. In recent years it has been a circus.
Wilderness areas never receive as much notice as such roadside public areas but the same occurs with those who do visit such places and are trying to figure out places to visit.
Here is an image I posted over at Summitpost.org in 2004 that the page author for Isosceles Peak then chose for the title page image:
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A year later or so I see the same landscape on the cover Outdoor Photographer Magazine taken by Art Wolfe though OP jacked the saturation up so much the paper looked like it was glowing. AW still sells the image on his website though is more believable even though without cloud underlit conditions I doubt it really looked like that.
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Another well known climber over at Summitpost also went up to take the same image. A person known for outrageously jacking up saturation. After a long list of various people blubbering over the image below the image in comments, I posted a singlecomment about it being unnatural which made for some unpleasant discourse but after a year or so he removed it because what I said was true.
