*face-palms until it gets painful*
No, really, it's apparently a problem.
Officials at Lake Tahoe, Sierra Nevada, have apparently had to walk around the trails telling people to stop taking pics like this after seeing them on social media.
Mercury Press/ Caters News
Gay Eitel of the Taylor Creek Visitor Centre told Barcroft Media it was fortunate the season was coming to an end.
Mercury Press/ Caters News
She said: "Real photographers take pictures that can seem to show the bears are close to them in the shot. The fact is they are using high-powered long lens equipment so they are actually far away from the animal."
Mercury Press/ Caters News
"We have found that the general public have been going out with iPhones and suchlike, and trying to recreate those pictures a lot closer to the bears."
Mercury Press/ Caters News
