Camera crimes 101

There's one thing about travelling I hate as much as pidgeons and hoards of other travellers, and that's tourists taking photos. Now this may sound a bit hypocritical being a fairly keen tourist photographer myself and all - except that all my photos are great.

Why oh why must people use a flash on all occasions, even in bright sunlight?? There's also nothing worse than being bombarded with flashes everytime you're in a dark spot. I really wish cameras were banned in more places, it would really improve the experience - and you can always get decent photos on postcards or the Internet etc. Though I can understand the appeal of taking your own pictures, it's everyone seems to take so many.

Then there's probably the worst crime and that's making people wait while you take a photo of your buddy, Mrs, whatever in front of some stupid attraction. This is so damn rude in my opinion and I'm sick of it!! This is made worse by people who don't know how to actually use a camera and take 10 minutes to take one.

You have the people taking videos of videos, not realising how bad these will actually look back home and the fact that they'll never watch them anyway. People want to take photos of absolutely everything, to capture it all - but you can't!!. Someone at an art gallery on the box the other night was saying that people don't go to galleries to see art - they go to take pictures of themselves.

Worst of all was at Duchau today - to me this memorial wasn't really a place to take photos, but obviously not other people - 'look Mom, here's me in front of the crematorium ovens, and here's me in the gas chamber, and here's the video I took of the video of the dead bodies' - sick!!!! There were people smiling for the camera while their friend took a photos of them in the grounds. There's no way I could smile in a place like this.

Rant over.