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What has become of us all?


I think my selfie of my wife and I in front of Mona is a fun shot. It's frankly different. Annotating it with an arrow adds to the fun. When someone is looking at my photo album or slide show, they laugh at it. Just what I want. Maybe you need to get friends who won't punish you because you shoot selfies. Seems snobby to me. I suppose you could ask a stranger to snap the shot. In any case, you're on vacation. Lighten up.
 

Forget what i said : i was half kidding. Btw they are still my friends.
 

 
jeffreyg said:
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Excellent!!!

I see this all the time whilst driving around locally.

It's the ones who cross busy roads whilst looking at their phones are one of the biggest worry to me, I mean who's going to pay for the dent in my car??

And another new-ish phenomenon is cyclists that jump red lights whilst looking at their phones WITH headphones on!!! Ditto as above about the dent...

Terry S
 
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Of course, back in the day, people used their 8 millimetre movie cameras for that.
And of course when people came to visit them later, a few got to enjoy really interesting home movies.
And as for the rest....
In my case, I usually don't release the shutter unless there is something photographically interesting to record.
Even the record shots - people we meet - places we visit - need to be worth re-visiting visually to be worth recording.
Of course, I happen to really like an interesting portrait.
 
CMoore said:
Was that intentional, or just sort of an accident.
Either way, it is pretty funny
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Intentional. See all those people behind us. Well that was the line that snaked round and round to get up close to Mona. Just wasn't worth waiting so long. Here's another shot closer. Same line. Mona must get tired with all these visitors. They come by the thousands daily.
 

Nice shot. I have loads of 8mm I used to show relatives and friends, also 35mm projected slide shows. No one cares any more. All they want is to show you their cellphone shots of their grand children blowing out candles.
 

You forgot, while also wearing a diaper style face mask...
 
I was at Niagara Falls and was wondering if Superman was available (if anyone remembers the scene from the movie).

 
Sirius Glass said:
Same thing at the Mona Lisa.
Same thing in Paris.
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I couldn’t really get close to “Starry Night” (by Van Gogh) at MoMA (NYC) to really contemplate the painting. An incredibly awful lot of young people taking selfies, stumbling into each other (sometimes on purpose) while pushing their way into a place “close enough for Instagram”… a total mess.

I didn’t even want that badly to take a picture of it, to be honest.
 
Sirius Glass said:
When people have their noses stuck in their phone, the mess up the flow of foot traffic.
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I was cycling yesterday in the outskirts of Berlin, through the north part of the Berliner Mauerweg (where the wall used to be). So much nature, so many beautiful sights… and an unforgettable sunset.

Most people I passed by were looking into their phones. A mom walking with her kids (while some were on scooters), pushing a baby cart… looking into her phone!!! I saw only one old lady taking pictures of the sunset (with her phone, of course) and stopped to greet her and say “such a beautiful sunset, eh?”. She smiled, nodded her head an I carried on.

I thought to myself: what’s the effing point of going into the nature if you’re going to stare at the damn phone?
 
chuckroast said:
You don't include yourself in holiday pix? I know I have (of me not you .
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This is a sad aspect of my life.

During my 20-year marriage, I would be the one with the camera and phone, shooting pictures of lots of stuff, including my ex-wife. When I look into my negatives and digital files, I see literally hundreds of pictures of her. On the other side, she would take selfies for social networks, sometimes with me. She would rarely take pictures of me alone, and most of them were really bad.

I’ve been (with her) to Dallas, New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco… northern Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Germany… Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay… And if I can count 50 pictures of me in these places, in total, I would be very surprised.

Sometimes it feels I didn’t live.
 

I never got closer than this to most of the van Goghs. I thought the frame was rather blousy, anyway,

 
I gotta say, some of the stunts in the video go far beyond anything I've ever seen. I live and shoot in Utah, and I've seen lots of people, but no one brought a crane! Here's a paragraph from an essay I wrote 20 years ago on shooting in Bryce Canyon National Park:

The "best light" I was refering to is the pre-dawn light, either on the horizon or colored flat light in the canyon. Like this, shot at Bryce Point:


I've given up the national parks and the tourists. I shoot in the other great places in Utah, where hiking and riding trails is the main thing to do, and the viewpoints are all around and uninhabited: Fisher Towers, Grand Staircase/Burr Trail, and the San Rafael Swell.
 

This makes me sad.
One way to deal with it is to have friends who are photographers. Even if you aren't in your photos, you end up in theirs, and they end up in yours, and you can make it a point to share!
 
MattKing said:
This makes me sad.
One way to deal with it is to have friends who are photographers. Even if you aren't in your photos, you end up in theirs, and they end up in yours, and you can make it a point to share!
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Yeah, I was even featured in an expo by a guy from Korea, a couple months ago, here in Berlin.

It was a crazy feeling!
 
After a very long day, and all sorts of mishaps with the train system in Spain, a friend of mine and I took a self-timer assisted photo of us. We were two very worn looking 23 year old travelers standing on the railway ties, looking back and down toward my OM-1 sitting on the rails and pointing back at us. It is one of my favorite travel slides.
That was far too many decades ago!
Selfies that document yourself in the midst of the adventure can have their place, if used sparingly.
 
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