Tourist

It absolutely cracks me up to go on vacations and see what people choose to take pictures of. I understand that sentimentality is important to an extent. Yes, sometimes we do want to show our friends and family what we did while we were away. However, there are things that we absolutely DO NOT need to take pictures of because, quite frankly no one we are sharing our pictures with wants to see them and we would have to be insane to want to look at these pictures again. Two places one is likely to visit while away are a zoo and a museum. Both have plenty of photo opportunities but neither have worthwhile ones. As a tourist photographer at the zoo, you will walk around and take pictures of the lions, tigers, elephants, and giraffes in their cages. Because they are at the zoo and bored out of their minds, they will probably be sleeping and you will struggle to get anything more than a picture of their rear end. Additionally, because zoos house dangerous creatures, it is impossible to get remotely close to the animals and any picture you take will look like you took it out of an airplane. You might as well look up YouTube montages of googled images of the animals with some soothing Enya song in the background to share with those close to you. Museums are equally worthless places to take pictures for similar reasons. First of all, everything at museums is behind glass and therefore uautomatically impossible to get a decent picture of. Furthermore, if you want to look at pictures of a Navajo pot or the inside of a human body or a stuffed polar bear, you can find all of these images online, in greater numbers and higher quality. Do yourself and your friends a favor next time you are at a museum or zoo or really any other tourist attraction for that matter; live in the moment, not in a constant effort to preserve this moment for the future because then it will pass you by. Sure, take pictures, but take pictures of the people you are with, not the random things you saw.