Did you know that a couple of years ago, there were more selfie related deaths than shark related deaths?

this happens so much at live concerts, just put the damn phone down and enjoy the experience!

A couple of pictures would not bother me. But constantly taking pictures or filming does, especially when it is in my view like 2 weeks ago at a Cirque du Soleil show. Everyone was allowed to take pictures, but not film. And this woman 1 seat to the left in front of me was constantly filming. It was pretty annoying. We were sitting in a wheelchair area (with seats in front, but it was not all sold out, and no one sat in these chairs). So in the break my partner and I asked the staff (who bring people to their places) if we could sit next to the chairs in front (well, me next to the chairs, my partner on a chair on the outside). When we sat there, that lady came up to us asking if we could move. We said no, and we weren't allowed to. That was the only spot we could sit said the staff.

How is taking a picture of something beautiful "something wrong with society"? The theory of the camera has been around since 400 BC. Camera obscura was a technique using a lens in a darkened room to capture and reflect light of something on to a paper and then traced by hand since 1500. The first photograph (that is known of and is still in existence) dates back to 1820s almost 200 years ago. You can easily enjoy a sunset for an hour or more and it takes a few seconds to capture the beauty of it which can then last for several hundred years! So someone please come with a proper explanation of how taking a photograph is something wrong with modern society.

Why is everyone clumped up in a group? I'd have my Pentax, a bag of lenses and a tripod. I would be inspecting the shoreline and grasses for critters. I would be looking for birds, maybe checking out the creative sunflare produced by the lens already paired with my camera. I would relish the beauty around me the slanting of the sun rays, the sparkle of the water, the smell of ocean in the air and the sounds of the birds. My phone would have the ringer turned off so it would not disturb my enjoyment of where I was, I want to get lost in the viewfinder because that's where the creativeness is.

Reminds me of my African Safari....I was the only one not looking through a camera.

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Naples Florida beaches during the winter...crowded with snow birds!

Photos are so important! It can be kind of annoying when someone takes 75 pics and never puts the phone down but when you lose someone very close to you and photos are all you have, you will be grateful for taking them.

Yip unfortunately true

Bruno Mars hates this 😂

and even on holidays. So much fuss to snap the so called "perfect" photo.

Looking at life thru a tinted lense!

I do this to the extreme. I’m glad I have too. On a trip to Philadelphia on a tour bus I about drove the guides nuts because I was holding up the bus taking those last few pictures. For those who did not take pictures I feel bad. I hope they have very good memories. My memory sucks . I have hundreds of pictures of that trip and I still love scrolling through them ten years later. I fact that folder of images is my screen saver on my Mac. Simply put, I cherish those memories in digital.

Would this have been more acceptable if they were multiple thousand dollars DSLR ca,eras set up on tripods?

Like if it’s not a hired media team that covers the event and will post it to YouTube the next day 🗣

Stop looking at other people and telling them how to live their lives. Enjoy your OWN experience. If they want to memorialize a moment or share it with someone who isn't there....let them.

How can one Enjoy the moment, when they're too busy taking photos? Sheesh, put it down!

This is just plain stupidity.

Ain't it the truth?

Caught myself doing this at Inverhuron Beach last year!

Like sunset on Captiva; its beach by The Mucky Duck.

Our world ☹️

I just read some of the other comments & I might be wrong but I thought it was more everyone taking a photo has a different view of the same thing .....

Some people are aspiring photographers though so why ?

I hate it when people get all judgemental about people take photos or videos at events instead of "living in the moment". First off we've been doing it since the drawing was invented, let alone the camera. Secondly, we ALL like to reminisce and photos/videos help us do that. Thirdly, you don't know why were doing it - it could be to show someone else, it could be for a print, it could be for inspiration- I do it because I have memory problems and won't remember it much afterwards, it at all. Fourthly, gtfover yourself, it's none of your damn business why we're doing it, move on with your own damn life and leave us to it.

So frustrating

some one want to be different by taking it portrait..

xkcd hits the nail on the head yet again. It's even the exact same subject matter. Really, you have to question how judgemental you are as a person if you care about how other people enjoy something. https://xkcd.com/1314/

Reminds me of my trip to Angkor wat.. where everybody is fighting to get that “spectacular moment” perfect picture; perhaps for memory sake perhaps for posting to media sake. But, is that your moment? Or it’s just a moment?

Hum

Too true. This happens even at the movies.

yeh man

One hand or two are taking this picture to capture the beauty of the sunset the others are looking for "likes"

Similar in concept to one Lunig drew many years ago, with a sunset and a tv. It bears repeating.

This one is perfect.

The most amazing thing of all is they all have a great picture, even more amazng, it's all the same. They should teach a class about it :D Though, yeah, sad reality at times

Picture of a picture 😁

Brings back to memory the photo of an elderly lay who waited for Pope to come by on the street. She was the ONLY one not holding a phone and watching the scene through it.

"Take a picture, it will last longer." -The Sun

Gosh darn people trying to preserve a view by snapping a quick photo. Memories are faulty for a reason how dare they defy nature.

Actually even a put-on smile can lift your mood, say neuro-scientists.

Children missing childhoods.