Strategies for Eliminating
People
from Your Photos
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othing is quite so frustrating for a travel photographer as other people -- or, worse, crowds of people, -- in the pictures. Palaces, castles, gardens, cathedrals . . . it doesn’t matter what the place is. Other people even ruin selfies. And for the serious photographer who wants to capture artistic compositions devoid of annoying distractions like people, there’s almost no point in shooting if the images are going to be
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worthless. Tourism has exploded in the last few years, and now that the Covid pandemic has subsided, travelers are itching to go anywhere. Popular destinations like Keukenhof Gardens in Holland (25,000 to 45,000 visitors per day), Angkor Wat in Cambodia (2.6 million visitors per year), Antelope Canyon in Arizona (2400 per day), the ancient coliseum in Rome (6 million visitors per year), and the Louvre in Paris (9.6 million visitors per year) make meaning-
