I don't have the resources to dedicate to being a 'Travel Photographer', traveling around the world to spend two weeks in one spot for a single image! So, I am slowly coming to the realization that I am primarily a 'vacation photographer'.
You know the drill. Step off the tour bus and you have fifteen minutes to fight with 35 other amateur photographers (tourists) all trying to take the same snapshot of the same scene from the same location!
Sometimes you get a chance to get away from the crowd long enough to get a unique shot or two like this one of the Firehole River Geysers in Yellowstone National Park. Yes, there were tourists here but I zapped them all with the Photoshop Laser Eradication Ray Gun! Pesky tourists! That'll teach them.
Interesting how it can be both cold and hot at the same time!