One thing I noticed about my recent New Orleans trip is that I took hardly any photos. The ones you saw yesterday in my “NOLA trip – Food and Drink” post were about the only ones I took. On the other hand, up until a few years ago when I traveled, I took hundreds of pics. It made me think – what changed?<\/p>\n
I think there are two main reasons people take photos when they’re on trips\/vacations:<\/p>\n
1) So they can look at the photos later and re-live the memories of being there.<\/em> I could have taken photos of Bourbon Street, the dive bars, the restaurants, and other places I visited in New Orleans… but you know what? I didn’t need to. Anytime I want to go back and see the places I went, all I need to do is get on Google StreetView and take a virtual walk around.<\/p>\n 2) To offer proof that you were there.<\/em> “See, I was at Disneyland, here’s a photo of me with Mickey Mouse.” “See, I was in DC, here’s a pic of me at the Lincoln Memorial.” The thing is, though, with the advent of iPhones people now have different ways to prove they were there. When I went out in New Orleans, I checked in on Foursquare every place I went. My Foursquare account is connected to Facebook and Twitter, so most of my friends saw that I was there.<\/p>\n I kinda like it that I kept my camera in my pocket most of the time… it made me look less like a tourist, and it was one less thing I had to keep up with.<\/p>\n Speaking of Foursquare… I was worried that my four-day out-of-town trip might be long enough to cost me the mayorship of the Flying Saucer, but I managed to hold on to it. I don’t see myself missing any days in the foreseeable future, so I’ll have that mayorship locked down for a while. I did lose Bardog Tavern while in NOLA. I guess I’ll have to go in this week and work on getting it back.<\/p>\n My next check-in at the Saucer will be tonight… trivia, 7 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One thing I noticed about my recent New Orleans trip is that I took hardly any photos. The ones you saw yesterday in my “NOLA trip – Food and Drink” post were about the only ones I took. On the other hand, up until a few years ago when I traveled, I took hundreds of … Continue reading “Thoughts on how the Internet has changed photo-tourism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7427,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions\/7427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}