Let alone including yourself in the picture. I know how you look like.
Let alone including your loved ones in the picture.
Even when their disappointment of having to face away from the monument is clearly visible in the photo.
And then you make them do stuff like ‘hold the sun in your hands’ or whatever.
Maybe you’re right, I might appreciate it 30/40years down the road but definitely not 10 years. I have photos from 10 years back but I never look at them. They only stay because storage is cheap.
You will change, and places change. It’s amazing looking at things years later. I have a picture at the top of the Twin Towers in Manhattan in 2000 (and I was the kind of person who didn’t like to take pictures of myself while traveling).
Things you do now may be relevant in the future. And you probably underestimate the power of nostalgia. XDDD
Edit: btw, voted because this is a truly unpopular opinion. :)
Bro I see things on my Google photos frame from even 10 weeks ago and am like holy crap I totally forgot we did that. Life is so busy and so often shitty, it really is nice to get reminders that at least every now and then I made a memory that wasn’t so bad. That’s what the photos, even the lamest posed ones, do for me.
Heck, I just got back from a 10 day trip on the east coast. We did so much in so little time, but took plenty of photos. Now when I’m telling family about our vacation, I can bring them along through the pictures and they help me tell the story of what was happening in the moment.
Once you start losing contact with people and people start dying looking back at old photos can be a really nice way to spend an evening.
The photo itself might not be that interesting but it might remind you of something funny or interesting that happened that day so long ago you haven’t thought of it for decades.
You might even appreciate some of them maybe a few months or a year down the road!
As a point of data, I’ve had a no-photo policy for 20 years, and haven’t started missing it yet.