People ask why I don’t take many photos when I travel. Well as it turns out, getting strangers to take your photos is like asking a kindergartner to take your wedding portrait – it usually doesn’t turn out well and sometimes, you lose your camera.
If you ask me, I think selfies came about after someone finally realized that if he/she stuck out his/her arm and blind-took a pic, there’d be a better photo outcome than actually getting a human to do the same thing. The selfie-stick probably came about after that hypothetical human realized that he needed more help than just sticking out an arm.
It’s not even like the worst photographers I’ve experienced aren’t looking like they’re trying. Usually they’d be taking photos of their own while rocking a Pro Photographer Pose.
Me? Sometimes I just take pictures of what’s in front of me. Like this.
And then sometimes, someone would spot me standing on the rock and ask if I’d like a pic and then take a pic for them in return, to which I would say yes.
Generally people seem to really think I must really like seeing myself. I could take selfies that feature more content than some of these pics.
So there. The mystery of why solo travellers don’t have photos of themselves solved (unless they’re really vain and love selfies).