What’s the deal with so many people taking out their camera phones at the drop of a hat and taking pictures everywhere? Nowadays, every third or fourth guy has a camera phone so it couldn’t be for showoff (unless they are idiots, that is). So why do they do it?
We had a gathering to celebrate the belated birthday of few visiting execs from Mumbai and three guys immediately pulled out their phones to take pictures. What are they possibly going to gain by taking pictures of people they hardly know? Am I missing something? I don’t think so. I think it’s a classic case of “Begaani shaadi mein Abdullah deewana”, a Hindi idiom that roughly translates into “Abdullah going crazy over somebody else’s wedding”. So anyways, one of the tree self-appointed photographers soon started moving around to get the picture from the best angle or something and soon he was few cm away from me, his back facing me and still moving back expecting me to move away I guess. But I didn’t cos I love freaking people out. Especially the ones I hate. So he turned his face around and looked at me and I looked at him back. He turned his face back, took the photo and then went away in search of a different angle. It was funny.
I find these idiotic photographers irritating too. I donno whether they will even look at those photos in the future…
I would like to call them ‘Click Happy’(coined from the term trigger happy)
Its become a craze these days to flaunt their camera phones at every occassion,A few days back there was a student agitation going on in our college and a guy took his camera phone and started clicking pictures of my students coming out.And its so irritating to see them clicking away anywhere and everywhere. and they sure try acting “We the best photographers” and a few days back one of the visitors to my house whom we hardly know started clicking away pictures of my house and my dogs and garden,Huh.