When you go to Disney with your family does your photo taking drive them crazy??

[TheDisneyBunch]

kids? no...

sister? no...

dw on the otherhand....

Thank you for that! It was too cute and funny!

 

[Tuffcookie]

What a neat question, OP!

Before every trip I always give youngest DS the same speel...

"You should be glad you get to go to WDW as often as you do! If I want to take (insert # here) pictures you better be patient and let me take them! Do you know how much this vacation is costing me??? I want to have memories when we get home!" Oh, I left one out..."If I want you to pose with the characters, you better pose with the characters. and look HAPPY!" (He's 15)

TC

 

[psimon]

My family has gotten used to me dragging the camera everywhere. I do all the shooting.

For once, though, I would love to hear my wife say "Give me the camera and I'll take a picture of YOU with the kids!"

You would think I never go anywhere with them!


---Paul in Southern NJ

 

[fuse04]

Here is what I have been doing lately on our trips...

Leave the camera in the room, do it for a full day, or for a morning one day, and an evening another.... Don't do it on your last day, so if you see something you want you can go back.

I still get plenty of pictures, but I also get to just concentrate on being with the kids.

What...leave the camera behind .....I am breaking out in a cold sweat just thinking about it

Yes, it drives DW crazy but having to fly 4,500 miles to get to WDW how can I not take pictures!

Fuse04

 

[Tuffcookie]

What...leave the camera behind .....I am breaking out in a cold sweat just thinking about it




TC

 

[psimon]

What...leave the camera behind .....I am breaking out in a cold sweat just thinking about it

Leave it home????????



It's like an appendage.... I can't go anywhere on a vacation without it.

I almost feel naked without it when I am on vacation and picking up groceries!

---Paul in Southern NJ

 

[AustinTed]

If they can't beat me then join me

9/2003 trip

 

[Pea-n-Me]

My family doesn't mind my taking pictures, and now they're also all getting into it too which is great. DH had his own camera this past trip and it gave me a little break, I knew he was getting great shots and he also did a lot of movie clips and panoramics.

Friends were another matter. Previously got a lot of these But I enjoy making small albums for them and at minimum usually give people CDs with their families' pictures on them, so most of them now have begun and even doing things like, on the cruise, holding their dinner plates up for me to shoot before the first bite, LOL. There was a lot of positive commentary from them too like "oops, forgot my camera, but it's ok because Linda's here" and such which made me feel pretty good.

Just returned from a trip with 30 friends and family divided into 8 groups. DH and I took over 4500 pictures, whereas the others took between 100 and 450 pictures in comparison. We saw many of them last night at a cookout and they were actually disappointed we hadn't brought our laptop for a slideshow. That's progress! But they know some good photos are coming and we're also going to make a fun trip DVD with copies for everyone.

 

[Gdad]

Drove the DW a little crazy in the past but hopefully that will change on the next trip- She has been talking about getting her first DSLR for a while now so I got her a D40 w/ 18-135 kit lens. Planning on giving it to her at our anniversary dinner at Ohana on the first night of our next trip in a couple weeks. Hopefully after that she will be taking her time a little more and I may actually be in one of our future photo albums.

 

[manning]

: He's actually quite a good photographer but would rather carry nothing in the parks......

That's why I like my Panasonic TZ1. I know it has its limits but you don't realize you are carrying it and with its 10x zoom it handles everything I do.

 

[miss missy]

Your not alone. My DD calls my camera a weapon!! I dont have a great camera or anything, but I love the memories. I think she is ok with it though, since WE both look them over and over all the time.

Now keep in mind I usually come home with 800 ish pictures. I print about 500 of them and put them in albums. Memories are so precious!

 

[yrdlyprincess]

For mine, yes it will!! I'm not really even a PHOTOGRAPHER, I just LOVE to take pictures, but yes it will drive them NUTS

 

[jann1033]

depends on hubby's( affectionately aka the "pack mule") mood...it more annoys him( and probably everyone else a the near vicinity) when i become so "focused"( hehe pun intended ) i forget where i am and stop dead in my tracks to take a shot of some thing i'm the only one who thinks is "to good to pass up" and then he trips over me(...that 's everywhere though since i haven't gone to wdw in my digital age yet.....)but since he knows i am going to make "frequent stops" he has learned to just keep walking( and to be in front of me) and i will eventually catch up...when i went to toronto with my mother and sister i thought they'd complain but when i was pooped( have a conditions that makes me have a lack of stamina) my sister even offered to carry my camera bag so no problem there, even though they laughed at my "cn tower from every angle possible" pursuit

we don't do the parks commando anymore so i think i'd do it the same way there...last trip i did leave my slr in the room towards the end due to being tired out but we don't have kids in tow so that's a little different.

oblio, very cute,,,i've seen that same look but on a male face

 

[Tally59]

I take tons of pictures. Of my daughter (5y) alone I averaged 10 photos a day since she was born. She loves it now but I can see her getting annoyed when she gets a bit older. Shes my baby an only child what do ya expect. You should see me at DD's gymnastics classes...I'm the crazy mom with the big paparazzi camera

I just got a massive heavy duty fire/flood proof safe to hold all her childhood pictures and media