Wanting to tap into the power of crowdsourcing, a team of researchers at the UK's University of Surrey have built the Wildsense Tigers app for iPad that pulls
tourist photos from Flickr and Instagram as well as biologist's camera trap feeds and uses facial recognition and location data to compile a more complete census of tigers in the wild.
We do a similar thing every time we visit Vancouver (about once a year)-- we take those
cheesy tourist photos at the Aquarium.
The famous Abbey Road Crossing, on the cover of the Beatles» Abbey Road album is a zebra - and it's still a popular magnet
for tourist photos.
As promised, I wanted to share a few of
my tourist photos from Charleston.
Rolf Potts looks back at
tourist photos he has taken over the years and considers how photography shapes and reflects our experiences.