I don't understand the attractionSmaug says: Ricky Gervais. Lesbian pr0n. Going into a crowded bar, purely because it's crowded. All these things seem to be popular with everybody else, but I just can't work out why. What leaves you cold just as much as it turns everyone else on?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 14:54)
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Holiday photographs with you in them.I realise that I may well be alone in this, but I really cannot get my head around it.
Why do people go through all the effort of traveling to some of the earth most spectacular locations, and then photograph themselves standing in front of said location?
What is the attraction? No, I'll admit I'm probably a little different then most as my hobby is photography and I happen to think that the beauty of the landscape is better preserved without my gurning mug in it. I don't include posed portraits in this, but the average holiday snapshot.
I travelled across the USA earlier this year by myself. Everywhere I went I had people asking if they wanted me to have them take a photo of me. Every time I politely declined, you'd have thought I'd have just turned down the offer of £1m. One particularly persistent potential photographer (sorry couldn't resist the alliteration) exclaimed; "If you aren't in the picture, how will you ever know that you've been here?!" I'll admit that one stumped me.
Im not complaining about it. In fact I have taken the photo myself for loads of people (damn my inherent helpfulness), I just don't get the attraction.
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Kovacs Slogan free since 2003, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 13:07,
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Oh yes!Nearly always when I am taking photos somewhere somebody will try to grab my camera to take a picture of me.
Noooooooooooo!
There is a good reason I want to be on the business end of the camera.
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Is it because you are really ugly?(, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 16:04, closed)
Lets face it,The quality of the holiday snaps most of us take, it's not to capture the natural beauty of the location. For that, you'd be better off buying postcards or a book of pictures or download someone else's or something.
Holiday snaps are to show others that you were there and thus, the "you" and "there" are a prerequisite.
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