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Photos from some interesting place... I'm prompted to blog about photos (and captions) again. If you are standing with the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the background, it's obvious (unless the photo was faked) you went to Italy. If your photo is of you sitting on a bed in a hotel... and 98% of the hotel rooms look identical, saying "My trip to Maui" the viewer has no way of knowing, who what or where, making the caption somewhat worthless. You could be in a hotel in Detroit and shoot the same photo. Let's play detective. I saw a woman with a selfie and all you can see is a tiny bit of a beach in the background. The sun is on her right shoulder... that means she's facing North in the morning, or East around noon or South in the afternoon. No idea where the photo was taken from. Okay... Hawaii, I believe you. I have plans to go on a cruise this summer... Should I come back with lots of tropical photos? I'll be sure to post some selfies with generic backgrounds and tell you I was in Pango Pango or "Here I am at the equator" like it would matter. There is a monument clock on Miami Beach that shows the date. If you are there it (unless you photoshopped the time and day) it is proof you have been to Miami Beach. Actually, now there is proof as smart phones with GPS can encode the location into the metadata header found on every JPG photo. I blogged about this. There are apps that allow you to track the location where the photo was taken. Some people actually play adventure games finding each other from this 'footprint' on the photo. I have that feature turned off on my phone by the way... I heard one woman posted photos online of her lounging by the pool (must have been showing off her new bikini) and someone tracked her. They showed up at her house for a meet-n-greet! (chatillion waits while 20 people check the setting on their cellphones) Thanks for reading my blog. Reminder to self: program that new app that can fake the GPS metadata locations so it appears you can be anywhere in the world you want. |
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So that photo of me standing next to a Mercedes S550 (in a dealers lot) wasn't real?? 
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BK, when you visit a famous place... Disney for example, your photo captures that moment in time. Everyone knows where you have been. If you have the Great Wall in the background, it needs no explanation. If you have a generic photo of you sitting on a hotel bed and you say it was from your trip to Beijing... who can dispute that? The point of my blog is the number of meaningless photo captions.
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