Women want to look at babies. Showing Grandma an album of vacation pictures would bore her to death unless each one has her babies/grand-babies/great-grand-babies in it.
Most guys don’t give a flip about looking at babies.
I was into lightning photography for a long time. Taking pictures of lightning bolts. I put some of my best ones on FaceBook. My friends were totally underwhelmed. They wanted to see babies.
My dad used to take hundreds of photos, and he sucked at taking photos. I hated them so much and still feel that sense of impatience if someone is taking too long. Just snap it and move on.
Thankfully my SO, while a decent photographer, can take a picture pretty quick. It’s his brother that I would straight up murder if I had to put up with it any length of time. I have seen him take ten minutes to shoot one stupid flower, until I wanted to rip out the flower and eat it.
…I am one of those, btw, who takes very few pictures of us in vacations. I’ve started taking a few, just because people complained, but mostly I like scenery.
ETA: And please! “Women” do not want to look at babies. Some women do, sure, but really, a very boring subject matter to some of us.
My dad is not happy about traveling unless the pictures have us in them. Practically every last goddamned one of them. Everywhere we go we have to do the lineup.
I have a picture of my entire family clearly not knowing what expression to put on our faces under the Dachau sign.
We had a HUGE fight because he wanted a group photo in the USS Arizona memorial and I put my foot down and said no.
I have a clear memory of my father trying to get us to take a picture somewhere. I’d been promised ice cream, dammit, and no ice cream was forthcoming after several hours of this shit. (I was 6 or 7 years old). Anyway I tried to walk out of the picture, and my dad was getting frustrated, too. He grabbed my arm and tried to pull me back in - not hard, but my balance was off, and I fell, hard, onto the pavement.
Opened up my knee and there’s blood everywhere and now I’m bawling at the top of my lungs. My poor dad, boy did he feel like a jerk, trying to clean up all of the blood and comfort me, too. No more pics, and I did get my ice cream. 
Having been to both countries, India twice, there is a definite similarity but… I don’t know how to say this without being offensive, but fuck it it’s just my impression so I’ll say it - Bangladesh was cleaner and the people were much nicer. The former, I don’t know if it’s to do with majority Islam vs majority Hindu, but I didn’t see anyone shitting in the street or on the train tracks in Bangladesh, or in fact anywhere at all, and it didn’t smell of shit like a lot of India did. The latter, I think it’s because there’s no real tourism there, so people are less cynical and grasping. [/hijack]
Don’t know what to say to that, being Indian and all. Um…thanks?
Well I know you’re of Indian heritage, which is why I was worried about being as honest as I was. This was the thing that stood out for me most when comparing the two, because there are indeed so many similarities. The food was really good in Bangladesh too but there was way less variety. If I had to pick, I’d go for Indian food.
…being struck by lightning? :eek:
Went on holiday on my own, didn’t want to hand my camera to a complete stranger to take my photo.
simplez