Happy shot
A little while ago I was visiting a good friend of mine and decided to take the camera with me and take a few shots of his pets. Some turned out good, some turned out .. not so good, but we had fun and got more experience in photographing pets. Honestly, who would have thought that they run and move so much and it's so hard to get them in the frame like you want to.. but than again if you got a trigger friendly finger you can get some unexpected shots.
Long story short, I got this little shot here which I really like a lot and it turns out that not just me. I decided to gave the pictures to my friend since they are his pets anyway and he placed the next one on some pet owners forums.
As you can see if you followed the link on my image above, it got a few votes in the pet image contest, reason enough to be a little bit happy, but that is not the explanation for the title at all.. no, this is a happy shot because.. well, just look at the image.
And if you want to see it larger you can check the shot on my flickr stream:
Zmurfu.
The basics of a tourist profile
Noticed that some people end up here looking for tourist profile information so here are some basics:
1. age
2. gender
3. race/nationality
4. group type (family, schools, business)
5. Occupation and income
6. purpose of the visit
7. local/domestic/international tourist
Who collects information and makes a tourist profile?
Most commonly this type of study is conducted by national Ministries of Tourism, for example the Ministry of Tourism from Mexico made one study of this type to find out the Tourist Profile and Satisfaction Level.
There are other institutions that collect and analyse this type of information and make this type of studies, for example within the European Union and at EU level, which is not a state and as such has no actual Ministry of Tourism.
Baiersbronn im Schwarzwald
..or how they put it on the official website Earth : Europe : Germany : Baden-Württemberg : Northern Black Forest : Region Karlsruhe : Freudenstadt County : commune Baiersbronn, is a lovely area within the Black Forest with plenty of vacation opportunities both in winter and summer.
The entire commune has 16.082 residents, split among Baiersbronn village with 5.735 residents, Friedrichstal, Mitteltal, Obertal, Tonbach, Klosterreichenbach, Röt-Schönegründ, Huzenbach, Schwarzenberg, Schönmünzach and Schönmünz with only 162 residents.
With such a small community that receives plenty of tourists all year round people are cheerful and welcoming. We went there to find some ski slopes and were amazed by how trusting and friendly everyone is there.
One example is at the ski renting shop in Baiersbronn village, where they were closing shop on Sunday at noon but let us keep the skis all day with the promise to put them behind the house, with a small paper note in them stating our names, before we left. Where would you find something like this ? Complete strangers renting a couple of ski equipment sets and than walking away on promise to bring them back in the evening.
Another example is that we left our gloves and hats and a pair of snow glasses on a bench near the slope elevator when we got there and they were still there in the evening when we packed things into the car.
Not to mention that everyone on the ski trail was friendly and helpful even if at times bothered involuntarily by some of us making mistakes and falling off the cable while going up.
And at the end of the day we left for home tired, happy and with a few lovely photos from which the ones posted above. Sometimes things just go right.. happy with the photographs and the time spent there, now all that's left is to get back there before summer comes and melts the snow.
Cheers!