Friends don't let friends drive...

[Boink]

... with selfie sticks. You saw this coming...

 

[GregW]

Doesn't matter how good an invention is. Someone out there will find a way to screw it up.

 

[Boink]

Selfie sticks were driving us nuts on our last trip. Asian tourists were banging into people shooting protracted videos (and not watching where they were going). It grew comical.

 

[JPSmit]

More and more museums are banning them and, when last we were at Disney they were clear they weren't allowed on rides - and enforcing it.

OTOH, coming back to the video.

"I can drive with a selfie stick. canoe?"

 

[Boink]

They (the selfie sticks) are a real problem. I can't stand them!

 

[LarryK]

Do not understand all this having to take a picture of yourself. After all these years looking in the mirror in the morning, they ought to know what they look like.

 

[Sherlock]

That poor canoe! layful:

Do not understand all this having to take a picture of yourself. After all these years looking in the mirror in the morning, they ought to know what they look like.

I agree, just blame social media, sad thing is most "selfies" these days are pretty much all the same... I know some real photographers who take high quality and innovative "self portraits"

 

[Bayless]

Hold my beer and watch this.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Can't think of a better name for those things, as we seem to be so self-absorbed these days...

 

[MikeP]

I personally have no interest in taking photos of much of anything with my phone. I remember where I've been, and I don't see why anyone else would care..

 

[Boink]

In a pinch, it can be fun to capture something that would never have otherwise been captured (because who carries a camera with them anymore).
I hate waiting for people to take phone pics... and the old 5 second rule (I believe in 3 seconds) has now become "wait a second while I figure this all out again."

 

[Sherlock]

In a pinch, it can be fun to capture something that would never have otherwise been captured (because who carries a camera with them anymore).
I hate waiting for people to take phone pics... and the old 5 second rule (I believe in 3 seconds) has now become "wait a second while I figure this all out again."

I still carry a camera with me quite often, but then most of you know that anyway, always on the lookout for that perfect photo... :rapture:

A friend of mine has traveled extensively all over the world, I asked him once if he ever took a camera (this was before smart phones came along) and he just simply traveled and as he put it... "kept the memories in my head"

I tend to go on a vacation to take photos with that being the goal, I almost feel like it's a "working" vacation sometimes but I still enjoy it... And then I will have so many photos it takes ages to sort through them, but I enjoy it still...

 

[JPSmit]

I still carry a camera with me quite often, but then most of you know that anyway, always on the lookout for that perfect photo... :rapture:

A friend of mine has traveled extensively all over the world, I asked him once if he ever took a camera (this was before smart phones came along) and he just simply traveled and as he put it... "kept the memories in my head"

we have been culling pictures over the last week or so, turns out "keeping memories in our head" is a really bad plan - we can't remember a thing! didn't think to have the kids hold up signs for the first day of school, of course we'll remember who those people are or what year we were at Disney. A friend used to call it CRAFT - can't remember a frickin thing That said, I don't tend to take the camera much any longer - a memory is good enough for now and I don't need the file on the computer or the hard copy.

 

[Boink]

For us, on a trip, the challenge has been reducing photos to under 1000! Who'd have thunk it from back in the day with film where one was judicious in taking photos.

 

[DrEntropy]

From early teens 'til about age fifty there was a camera either on me or within arms' reach. Hundreds of thousands of images. If it moved I shot it, if it was static I shot it twice. :smirk: Things like the Edmund Fitzgerald dockside in Ashtabula harbor in the '60's, USAF air-to-air shots of dozens of aircraft and different operations, family events for decades, Formula-1 events, tear sheets out of numerous publications from local and international outfits. I quit buying photo gear and started seriously getting into computer stuff in about 1990. The "digital revolution" saw me completely changing horses. Now that every man and his dog has a camera clipped to their belt I'm glad of the change.

Being a professional panderer in reflected light images is a tough way to earn a living today. I call myself a reformed photojournalist now.

 

[Sherlock]

From early teens 'til about age fifty there was a camera either on me or within arms' reach. Hundreds of thousands of images. If it moved I shot it, if it was static I shot it twice. :smirk: Things like the Edmund Fitzgerald dockside in Ashtabula harbor in the '60's, USAF air-to-air shots of dozens of aircraft and different operations, family events for decades, Formula-1 events, tear sheets out of numerous publications from local and international outfits. I quit buying photo gear and started seriously getting into computer stuff in about 1990. The "digital revolution" saw me completely changing horses. Now that every man and his dog has a camera clipped to their belt I'm glad of the change.

Being a professional panderer in reflected light images is a tough way to earn a living today. I call myself a reformed photojournalist now.

What he said, except that I don't do it professionally, all squeezed into my spare time and vacations... Given the current state of the photography market I'm not sure I want to become a full-scale pro... Meantime planning a vacation from work for some photography in October in Saskatchewan, on the Canadian prairies, plus a major poetry festival to keep me occupied at night...