Taking photos on vacation is pointless. For any tourist attraction, you’ll find pictures that are better than you’ll ever be able to take yourself online. Any mildly interesting sight has already been photographed. You or your friend posing in the foreground doesn’t make the photo any more interesting.
Will Self says it more eloquently in County Highway, a magazine which you should consider subscribing to:
Courtesy of Mssrs. Brin and Page, we can now find out at the same time we capture an image, all the other versions of that view, scene, building or natural feature that have already been taken: It’s as if we can perceive a visual world increasingly being covered over by a series of translucent overlays.
I will concede that pictures of friends and family can still be unique and provide joy.
Nehaveigur 