Cameras and T-girls just go together \u2013 like cookies and cream.<\/p>\n
Well, if there isn\u2019t a picture, then maybe it didn\u2019t happen \u2013 perhaps it was all just a dream! But with a digital camera in every handbag \u2013 those images are no longer treasured items.
\nI don\u2019t 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\u2026 of me!<\/p>\n
Over all the decades I\u2019ve been out and about in Sydney I\u2019ve lost count of the number of times I have posed for a photo. I\u2019ve never been particularly concerned about having my picture taken \u2013 some might say I\u2019m a touch over-exposed! Flash goes the camera, and then\u2026.well that\u2019s my problem\u2026what happens?<\/p>\n
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 \u201cadd a caption\u201d competition?<\/p>\n
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 \u2013 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\u2019m prepared to entertain anyhow!).<\/p>\n
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\u2019s boring, it\u2019s a waste of time, and it\u2019s just plain silly. Why does it happen? Well because if you never to think to share the pictures you take, you also don\u2019t expect to receive pictures others take. It\u2019s a vicious circle that has to be broken.<\/p>\n
OK \u2013 I\u2019ve had my gripes. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","topic-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1138","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-tag?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}