Yellow car blamed for 'photobombing' village of Bibury

[citizen99]

News of the day from the Cotswolds:-

Yellow car blamed for 'photobombing' village of Bibury

My opinion on this is that the village is a living place (in both readings of the phrase 😉 ), and tourists and photographers should take it as they find it. Some tourists seem to think that it's a museum exhibit, and go peering through the windows into people's houses 😱. What do the learned frequenters of this forum think ?

 

[zuiko85]

Yeah, life is tough all over.

 

[rhl-oregon]

A great incentive to buy a yellow car if you want to preserve some privacy from photogawkers with a sentimental-village-life agenda. I foresee a Yellow Car movement, though a repurposing of the Yellow Bicycle movement might be better, certainly cheaper on a village-wide scale.

Now I'm thinking of a Yellow DSLR movement...really, anything to annoy and spoof and disrupt the wankers with cameras who prefer their bucolic scenes neutron-bombed of evidence of actual life....

 

[randolph45]

Looks like a job for" PHOTOSHOP PERSON" 🙄

 

[bonatto]

most cameras have four framing edges, don't they? problem solved.

 

[Pete B]

Black and White

 

[John E Earley]

Will the photographer who doesn't want the yellow car in their image, please step forward.

 

[Brian Atherton]

most cameras have four framing edges, don't they? problem solved.

🙂

I’ve visited and stayed in Bibury a number of times (although not recently).

Would this yellow car bother me? No. Cars and vehicles are everywhere, and anyway, Like Pete B, I take black and white.

 

[mbisc]

It's the 21st century -- cars exist. WTH??

 

[rodt16s]

Some of the cottages in Bibury have signs asking tourists not to go in the gardens to take photo's... Even in a foreign language
I wouldn't want to have the constant foot traffic peering in through my window everyday...
The guy should buy a yellow van


Tourist trail to Arlington Row by Redt16s, on Flickr

 

[rodt16s]

Guess he use to have a dark colour car

 

[rhl-oregon]

...require everyone coming through *for the day/with a camera* to rent and wear a yellow rain slicker with yellow boots and/or a yellow umbrella...?

Nice source of revenue for the village. Plus they could have fun snapping pix of the yellow parade through their picturesque windows.

Wait, here's the bonus requirement: all tourists have to rent headsets that stream Coldplay's "Yellow" on repeat until they leave.

 

[jsrockit]

Seems like nonsense to me...

 

[f16sunshine]

Great W/NW thread topic. 😀

Colmar France.

blech by Adnan W, on Flickr

 

[robert blu]

Yellow is beautiful 😀
robert

 

[Ronald M]

A great incentive to buy a yellow car if you want to preserve some privacy from photogawkers with a sentimental-village-life agenda. I foresee a Yellow Car movement, though a repurposing of the Yellow Bicycle movement might be better, certainly cheaper on a village-wide scale.

Now I'm thinking of a Yellow DSLR movement...really, anything to annoy and spoof and disrupt the wankers with cameras who prefer their bucolic scenes neutron-bombed of evidence of actual life....

Self defense. And clever

 

[ssmc]

If it was a classic 60s exotic like a Miura or a Dino in "giallo fly" it would look awesome.

Just sayin' 😉

 

[segedi]

a Yellow DSLR movement..

How about a yellow camera movement?

 

[Mark A. Fisher]

I have a yellow Holga, does that count?

 

[PhotoMat]

I like yellow cars … and gelato.