 Actually, the photographer has made a, in this case, has made a great number of very deliberate decisions. So what are those decisions? Well, first of all, he's decided to take pictures at this particular site itself. Why Niagara Falls, as opposed to Trenton Falls, or the Potomac River? Well, Niagara Falls is this sort of national icon. It is a landmark that Americans have invested with a great deal of the significance, patriotic significance. Other decisions that the photographer perhaps is making include what he has chosen to include and to leave out. I find it particularly interested in this view that he does include a tree on the left-hand side of the image. It sort of frames the picture. It suggests that this is the left-hand margin of our picture. That he has also, within the frame, tried to capture the panoramic sweep of the falls. If you've ever been to the falls, you know that there are, it's not just one single fall. It's a series of three or four individual falls, the American Falls or Shoe Falls. And here, the photographer has tried to provide information about the entire panoramic sweep. That's another, I think, very deliberate decision. Who exactly is a Platbat? Where did he come from? What is his background? Does he have artistic training? What type of business does he run? How has he gotten to this site? And what, of course, is his relationship to the subjects that he's photographing? A little bit of research will reveal that Babbitt carved out a very successful career as a commercial landscape photographer in the service of tourism, which provides a nice bridge into sort of a fourth concern, which would be that this photograph participates in the cultural practice of tourism, a phenomena that was, that grew into a mass market phenomena in the mid-19th century at places like Niagara Falls. And I would argue that photography was instrumental in defining the boundaries of the modern tourist experience. For photography taught people where to go, what was worth seeing. Photography educated the eye of the tourist, showing him or her how to see a particular site. And last of all, photography served as really one of these central rituals of the one's tourist experience. These people are tourists who have traveled and records from hotel registries at Niagara Falls indicate from as far away as not only New York and Boston, but London and Paris. Niagara Falls, thanks to photography and at the same time the promotional efforts of other tourist developers like the railroads, like the hotels, are responsible for advertising places like this to a clientele that reaches not only throughout the United States, but as far as ways as Europe is as well. And that these are those who have the disposable income, the time and inclination to go to a place like Niagara Falls.