Yellow car blamed for 'photobombing' village of Bibury

[citizen99]

More details and a video in this link (I expect you can find similar on any UK press website) 😀

 

[Lss]

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.

I like that, sounds like a great photo opportunity!

 

[Lss]

Good one!

...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...?.

 

[David Hughes]

A yellow filter on each camera would be another idea...

Regards, David

 

[Pherdinand]

Tourist trail to Arlington Row[/url] by Redt16s, on Flickr

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that's hilarious 😀

 

[Robin P]

Last time I was there (April 2013) the sun was in the wrong place but that wasn't as annoying as a Vauxhall with black wheels would have been.🙂

 

[Brian Atherton]

Vauxhall comes up with an answer:

http://media.vauxhall.co.uk/media/g...s/gb/en/2015/vauxhall/01-30-yellow-corsa.html

😀

 

[Muggins]

There's only really one thing that you can do at a moment like this...

...Go find the yellow car!

Yelow car photobomb! by gray1720, on Flickr

Incidentally, going to the trout farm and feeding the trout was great fun - thoroughly recommended!
Adrian

 

[rhl-oregon]

I've thought about this a bit more, and think the citizens of Bibury ought to agree to cover their cars with slate tiles to go with the roofs. This will make them more hail proof as well.

Alternatively, use protective covers, aka Auto Condoms designed to look like The Hay Wain as painted by Constable.

 

[citizen99]

I've thought about this a bit more, and think the citizens of Bibury ought to agree to cover their cars with slate tiles to go with the roofs. This will make them more hail proof as well.

Alternatively, use protective covers, aka Auto Condoms designed to look like The Hay Wain as painted by Constable.

Ah, Constable; and was the red barrier section added by a disciple of J M W Turner ? 😀
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-And-Turner-Constable-going-toe-toe-more.html

 

[Muggins]

I've thought about this a bit more, and think the citizens of Bibury ought to agree to cover their cars with slate tiles to go with the roofs. This will make them more hail proof as well.

Alternatively, use protective covers, aka Auto Condoms designed to look like The Hay Wain as painted by Constable.

ROFLMAO!

Obviously, for those who object to Coldplay... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64mb_hUOb4g

Adrian

 

[Clark.EE]

Bloody tourists.
My Mum hates yellow. she doesn't drive
& has never been to Bibury?
Maybe the Government should step in?

 

[noisycheese]

...Maybe the Government should step in?

Be careful what you wish for. The politicians would probably outlaw photography so as to not inconvenience the driver of the yellow car. 😎

 

[Sparrow]

.... has someone pointed out that Selective Colour in Photoshop will sort it out in seconds?

 

[Brian Atherton]

The red 'gate' distracts my eye more than the yellow car. 😱

Yelow car photobomb! by gray1720, on Flickr

 

[Muggins]

Red always will, I guess. Not even sure what i was doing there, couldn't see any damage to the bank underneath it.

A workmate said this morning that I should have tried to get a reflection of the view in the car. Dammit, he's right!

Adrian

 

[Brian Atherton]

Adrian, Perhaps the red gate has been put there to annoy the tourists after all the comments about the yellow car.

With this in mind maybe we could have a new thread: Objects Deliberately Put in a Place to Spoil the View and to Annoy Photographers. 😀

 

[Muggins]

Now there's an idea!

Oxford is heaving with them (many of them being the tourists themselves...), I'm sure we can get a thread going...

Adrian

 

[Sparrow]

Adrian, Perhaps the red gate has been put there to annoy the tourists after all the comments about the yellow car.

With this in mind maybe we could have a new thread: Objects Deliberately Put in a Place to Spoil the View and to Annoy Photographers. 😀

... lots of scope in Yosemite

 

[rwintle]

I have a few solutions (some suggested already):

1) Re-compose
2) Remove in Photoshop, GIMP, or similar
3) Find something original to photograph

/curmudgeon