You know you’ve done it.

You, the photo nerd, on vacation, with your digital camera. You’re out in a national park or mountainous region. You flip your camera settings to B&W and start framing mountains a la Ansel Adams.

It was a New York Times story that got me thinking about this. I’m a digital photo geek myself (you should see my screensavers!), so naturally when I read the Times’ headline “Many people go to Yosemite to try to take the same photos [Ansel Adams] did” I quickly identified.

Every time I travel west to Colorado, it’s only a matter of hours before I get my Adams itch. That’s one of my first homages above, several years ago, from a chairlift at Copper Mountain.

(Truth be told, I actually try to keep my camera in my pocket as long as I possibly can; once I begin snapping I become a bit … well … obsessed.)

The way I’ve always figured it: Why buy a poster in a gift shop when I can take the same photo myself?

Point now being: You should share some of your postcard experiences here. Give us some tips, and maybe some places where one can snap some more great screensavers.

Better yet: Send some to us to publish in our ever-growing user-submitted photo gallery.

Submit them by clicking here!

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