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Snap happy?
Carlos and his wife in one of those photos!
It's tough these days if you're not keen on having your picture taken as almost everyone has a camera on their mobile phone and many of us seem to get perverse pleasure out of taking less than flattering photos of others in a sorry state. I bet you're guilty of it. We all are! We can't resist taking shots of oddities, amusing things and a firm favourite; shots of folks in compromising poses. They don't necessarily happen on wild nights when possibly alcohol induced antics occur. You can be at work or just going about your everyday business and there's every chance a camera lens will capture you at the most inappropriate time.
I have an issue with my wife. She loves taking pictures. She fills her Facebook pages with stuff. So many are of our beautiful daughter and I confess, Claire has captured some tremendous images of Martha. However, she finds it highly amusing to take pictures of me, or us as a couple when we are looking a little comical to say the least. They are very amusing, but I am concerned that our family album will leave our daughter scarred for life when she's a little older. You know we've all been there; but at least years ago, long before digital photography our parents would be sensible with their snapping, knowing that developing those rolls of film would be costly. So when we'd flick through the prints in the envelope we'd be embarrassed by fashion, or lack of it. We'd be amused by the odd stuff that often found its way into the frame and so often there would be a few shots that gave the impression the shutter was closed accidentally.
We, like most have the most ridiculously large collection of digital pictures from phones and cameras and because we know there's no financial penalty for filling that memory card we are tempted to take a greater selection of silly shots for our amusement. Consequently I am expecting our daughter to disown us if we ever show any of our pictures to her friends and boyfriends in the years ahead.
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