Everywhere, everyone seems to be taking photos. With their phones and with their cameras, it is never ending. Of a scene, of themselves and sometimes of both. It's as though it didn't happen, or I wasn't really there, unless there is a photo on my wall (the digital wall on a social media site, not an actual wall).
Earlier in May the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu spoke for many of us when he ranted against the constant photo taking, the selfies, the apparent inability to set the phone down...
"You are slaves to your gadgets" he said, without knowing he was being recorded. His rant went viral.
It's true: all those people taking photos. Sending live transmissions and talking while they are "shooting" the World Trade Centre or the Statue of Liberty. All the time. Everywhere. Some people take pictures of each other taking pictures of each other.
Still others take photos of people taking photos. What's with that I wonder? But wait a minute, I'm one of those people.
I don't think of myself as a slave to my gadget, and no selfies for me. I use the camera's timer.
Photos by Jim Murray. Copyright 2014.