Don't Let The Vacation Post Ruin Your Vacation
Are you photographing yourself living your life or living your life to be photographed? Plus, Americans in Paris, 'The New Tourist' and NYC real estate.
I’m standing by the water in Reykjavik, admiring the mountain skyline when I overhear a couple young women next to me. “I’m so bad at taking photos, I can take more if you want,” one of the women says to her friend as she hands back her phone. In a city where the only clothing shops I’ve seen sell gorpcore and it’s currently 13 degrees, the woman who just had her friend take her photos is wearing a thin slit dress with heels. “You didn’t angle them properly,” She says to her friend, begrudgingly gesturing her phone back to her to take more photos. So the apologetic friend tries again. “Higher! Higher!” The modelling friend demands. When she takes her phone back to review, she says to her friend, “I told you above the knee!” The friend apologizes. “Forget it, you’re done,” she says lightheartedly. After a pause, she says almost an afterthought, out of obligation, “I can take photos of you if you want.”
The self-conscious friend is just a…