Cameras banned from Carlsbad Caverns during bat flights

http://www.nps.gov/cave/pphtml/newsdetail22725.html
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/42140.html

Apparently too many people kept on taking flash
pictures when there was a clear "no flash" rule.
So they simply banned photography altogether.
I don't know why anyone would try to take night
photos of bats anyways.

I rather understand it. Most people can't figure
out how to turn off their flash. I was at the
Monterey Bay Aquarium when they had the captive
great white shark. Every couple of minutes there
was an announcement that flash photography was not
allowed. Inevitably a couple of flashes would go
off as a response. Literally I could see the shark
recoil every time a flash went off in its eyes.

In article . net,
y_p_w wrote:

http://www.nps.gov/cave/pphtml/newsdetail22725.html
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/42140.html

Apparently too many people kept on taking flash
pictures when there was a clear "no flash" rule.
So they simply banned photography altogether.
I don't know why anyone would try to take night
photos of bats anyways.

I rather understand it. Most people can't figure
out how to turn off their flash. I was at the
Monterey Bay Aquarium when they had the captive
great white shark. Every couple of minutes there
was an announcement that flash photography was not
allowed. Inevitably a couple of flashes would go
off as a response. Literally I could see the shark
recoil every time a flash went off in its eyes.


Every time I go to a big sporting event, I see flashes popping all over
the place. It makes you want to stand up and yell, "The players on the
field are too far away for your flash to do any good! Haven't you ever
heard of the inverse square law??"

Fat lotta good that would do ...

fishfry wrote:
In article . net,
y_p_w wrote:

Every couple of minutes there
was an announcement that flash photography was not
allowed. Inevitably a couple of flashes would go
off as a response. Literally I could see the shark
recoil every time a flash went off in its eyes.

Every time I go to a big sporting event, I see flashes popping all
over the place. It makes you want to stand up and yell, "The players
on the field are too far away for your flash to do any good! Haven't
you ever heard of the inverse square law??"

I can top that. Flashes going off at fireworks displays.
Idiots.

--
ant

fishfry wrote:

In article . net,
y_p_w wrote:


http://www.nps.gov/cave/pphtml/newsdetail22725.html
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/42140.html

Apparently too many people kept on taking flash
pictures when there was a clear "no flash" rule.
So they simply banned photography altogether.
I don't know why anyone would try to take night
photos of bats anyways.

I rather understand it. Most people can't figure
out how to turn off their flash. I was at the
Monterey Bay Aquarium when they had the captive
great white shark. Every couple of minutes there
was an announcement that flash photography was not
allowed. Inevitably a couple of flashes would go
off as a response. Literally I could see the shark
recoil every time a flash went off in its eyes.



Every time I go to a big sporting event, I see flashes popping all over
the place. It makes you want to stand up and yell, "The players on the
field are too far away for your flash to do any good! Haven't you ever
heard of the inverse square law??"

Fat lotta good that would do ...

I even see flashes coming from the upper deck.

BTW - here's a non-flash shot of that great white.
I had to take several to get a good one. I'm sure
the flash takers just got the reflection of their
flash off the aquarium glass wall.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/308/greatwhite4my.jpg

In article . net,
says...
http://www.nps.gov/cave/pphtml/newsdetail22725.html
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/42140.html

Apparently too many people kept on taking flash
pictures when there was a clear "no flash" rule.
So they simply banned photography altogether.
I don't know why anyone would try to take night
photos of bats anyways.

I rather understand it. Most people can't figure
out how to turn off their flash. I was at the
Monterey Bay Aquarium when they had the captive
great white shark. Every couple of minutes there
was an announcement that flash photography was not
allowed. Inevitably a couple of flashes would go
off as a response. Literally I could see the shark
recoil every time a flash went off in its eyes.

Egyptian National Museum, a few years ago. I had just finished taking
some available light pictures of the Tutankhamun golden funerary mask
(flash not allowed), when a bunch of tourists came in and suddenly
started bombarding the funerary mask with flashes. Quickly, quickly,
before the museum guards could react. They didn't realise that the mask
was behind a glass wall, so they would see the reflections of their
flash in the glass wall, and they didn't care whether the Tutankhamun
golden funerary mask might be damaged by the flashes. Now all
photography is banned in the Egyptian national museum.
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
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"y_p_w" wrote in message
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http://www.nps.gov/cave/pphtml/newsdetail22725.html
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Apparently too many people kept on taking flash
pictures when there was a clear "no flash" rule.
So they simply banned photography altogether.
I don't know why anyone would try to take night
photos of bats anyways.

I rather understand it. Most people can't figure
out how to turn off their flash. I was at the
Monterey Bay Aquarium when they had the captive
great white shark. Every couple of minutes there
was an announcement that flash photography was not
allowed. Inevitably a couple of flashes would go
off as a response. Literally I could see the shark
recoil every time a flash went off in its eyes.


Dumb people shouldn't be allowed to own cameras. This misuse/abuse of flash
on every and any occasion has been my biggest bug bear in 30 plus years of
photography!

It's these same dumb people who can't read rules that probably helped to get
photography banned for *everybody*, including serious amateurs, in so many
places around the world over the years

"Freda" wrote in


Dumb people shouldn't be allowed to own cameras.

Dumb people shouldn't be allowed to breed. Unfortunately, there's all these
do-gooder civil libertarians around...

RobG

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:14:31 +0100, Freda wrote:

Dumb people shouldn't be allowed to own cameras. This misuse/abuse of flash
on every and any occasion has been my biggest bug bear in 30 plus years of
photography!
When are you returning your camera.

It's these same dumb people who can't read rules that probably helped to get
photography banned for *everybody*, including serious amateurs, in so many
places around the world over the years
It is governments and administrations that ban photography not mutes.

--
Neil
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BTW - here's a non-flash shot of that great white.
I had to take several to get a good one. I'm sure
the flash takers just got the reflection of their
flash off the aquarium glass wall.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/308/greatwhite4my.jpg

So... where's the good one that you mentioned?

steve

fishfry wrote in news:BLOCKSPAMfishfry-
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Every time I go to a big sporting event, I see flashes popping all over
the place. It makes you want to stand up and yell, "The players on the
field are too far away for your flash to do any good! Haven't you ever
heard of the inverse square law??"

Fat lotta good that would do ...

The battery manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank... =)