The stories are tragic, but they are in the truest use of the word – senseless. Folks doing silly things for a picture and then paying for it with their lives.
Just this past weekend, a man hiking in the Catskills slipped and fell while standing on a ledge taking photos of a waterfall. Last month, three people fell into the river and were swept over Vernal Falls in Yosemite when they went past the warning signs. One person fell in and two others fell while trying to save them. Their bodies have still yet to be recovered.
We have all probably done something we shouldn’t have in pursuit of a photograph. Leaning a bit too far, crossing where we shouldn’t have, staging something to look like what it’s not. More than once I’ve had to grab someone to keep them from falling over an edge, into the water, insert near-death-experience here.
These latest incidents should serve as warnings to us all. Use some common sense. As much as you want to document an event or a place, you don’t want to end up documenting your own death or someone else’s.
Don't pay the ultimate price for "priceless" photos.
