is cornman in the dunes ?

[HenryHawk]

PHOTOSHOP!!!!!!!!! Get over it!!!!

 

[Danny Burns]

Depth of field and distance can easily be distorted in any photograph. He could be 20 feet away and look like he's standing directly on the dune.

 

[buster]

It doesn't matter whether he was actually in the dunes or not, it's the APPEARANCE that matters. We're trying to educate visitors to stay off the dunes. Every time a photographer or a realtor, or someone else gets caught with a website photo or an ad of people in the dunes they start drawing diagrams and describing in great detail how they weren't actually IN the dunes but you know, "just off to the side", "on the walkway", "levitating 4 inches off the ground" - IT DOESN"T MATTER. It's pics that LOOK like you're in the dunes that we're talking about. Don't walk in the dunes and don't publish photos that look like you're in the dunes. Don't do it.

 

[idlewind]

It doesn't matter whether he was actually in the dunes or not, it's the APPEARANCE that matters. We're trying to educate visitors to stay off the dunes. Every time a photographer or a realtor, or someone else gets caught with a website photo or an ad of people in the dunes they start drawing diagrams and describing in great detail how they weren't actually IN the dunes but you know, "just off to the side", "on the walkway", "levitating 4 inches off the ground" - IT DOESN"T MATTER. It's pics that LOOK like you're in the dunes that we're talking about. Don't walk in the dunes and don't publish photos that look like you're in the dunes. Don't do it.

We're with ya, but I think we have beat this horse bloody. I would imagine Mr. Cornman will be punished at the SoWal polls for his mistake.

 

[Johnny Post]

I have been a resident of walton county for only about 27 years. Iv visited numerous times before that and walked these lovely beaches many times. I seem to remember many many dunes that are now the livingrooms and bedrooms of rental townhomes.
It seems that dunes are only protected until a building permit is granted. Then its just a pile of sand. How sad.
Let the first person who never walked on a dune cast the next stone.

Many years ago, I vacationed in the Grayton area. Walking up and down dunes was extremely common.

I know why we can't do it now. As a local, I appreciate it. But honestly I agree with Seeker, those people who truly loved the dunes we used to have don't build over them.

I get the suggestion of Cornman doing wrong, but to me its really a nonissue.