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Who stole my picture?
Cameras and T-girls just go together – like cookies and cream.
Well, if there isn’t a picture, then maybe it didn’t happen – perhaps it was all just a dream! But with a digital camera in every handbag – those images are no longer treasured items.
I don’t care what people do with the pictures they take of themselves in the privacy of their hotel room. But I do mind about the pictures they take… of me!Over all the decades I’ve been out and about in Sydney I’ve lost count of the number of times I have posed for a photo. I’ve never been particularly concerned about having my picture taken – some might say I’m a touch over-exposed! Flash goes the camera, and then….well that’s my problem…what happens?
Only my close friends reliably send me pictures, often regardless of how we look in them. What happens to all the others? Was it so embarrassing that the photographer quietly presses the delete key to spare me the pain of seeing my true image? Is it plastered over some website for voyeurs, or worse still, the subject of an “add a caption” competition?
Come on girls! If you pay someone the complement of having your photograph taken with them, do the decent thing and share the result. Within TR you can contact anyone to tell them you have a picture to share – and you can upload pictures on sites like Google albums without anyone else being able to look at them. So there is no excuse for stealing my image (well not one that I’m prepared to entertain anyhow!).
And sharing brings me to my current pet hate; those group photographs where everyone wants to have a copy of the picture on their camera. So we stand around, often in some inconvenient place, whilst some poor photographer works though a pile of cameras taking the same picture on each one. It’s boring, it’s a waste of time, and it’s just plain silly. Why does it happen? Well because if you never to think to share the pictures you take, you also don’t expect to receive pictures others take. It’s a vicious circle that has to be broken.
OK – I’ve had my gripes. I’m sure I’m not alone in these opinions, so next time you take a picture of others, remember it does come with some obligations. One good picture shared is worth hundreds of others lost in private collections.
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