THINGS WE LOVE

– Camera –

Let me start complaining right away. I really have a love-hate relationship with cameras. On one hand, I never really want to be in the picture, let alone that posing is my favorite moment but on the other hand, I find it much more personal and afterwards some snapshots can be quite nice. My colleagues know how to handle that and do their best to make me look as good as possible in the photo and take all the time for it. Same problem on vacation. I find it very awkward to take photos around tourist attractions because it’s just so incredibly standard and I never know how to stand in a fun way, but on the other hand, about three hundred other people are doing it too and such a snapshot is quite nice for the scrapbook. You get it. A love-hate relationship.

There’s also a small point to consider. My boyfriend is a photographer and he doesn’t go on vacation without his camera. Now you would think that I’m posing all day, but that’s totally not the case. He takes the most beautiful photos and the scrapbooks from the past years are just lonely travel guides. So beautiful, but also very lonely. The problem is that he has all the love and attention for the surroundings, but he forgets to take pictures of his girlfriend (read: me, who is kind of trailing behind him for the best shot and also gives directions here and there). Afterwards, we have the coolest photos that do great for his magazine clients, but also the most distant ones because we are hardly ever in them. And that last part is not so nice for the scrapbook. We’ve had a solution for that for a few years now. He takes the most amazing photos of the surroundings with his supersonic DSLR, I have a disposable camera in hand for spontaneous moments and the ussies. No matter what camera it is, how much effort it takes for the best photo, it makes our vacation a bit trickier, but the memory is all the more fun.