With the great cloud debacle of “interesting” photos being captured and revealed without the subject’s permission takes me back to good, old fashioned advice: “if you don’t have any thing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” This adage can then be translated to “if you don’t want others to see you looking like this at all, do not record it at all.” The cloud debacle is then solved quite simply for the current predicament.
What should we do?
1. Present yourself as if you were being recorded or photographed (or both!) all of the time. The royal family is born into this mindset. Change your thinking from “no one notices me” to “I may be a living example to another, so I will live up to a higher standard.”
Kate and William in Singapore hrhduchesskate.blogspot.com
2. Protect your loved ones. Counsel your children, or fellow adults who may act like children, to be aware of the abundant presence of cameras these days. Anyone with a cell phone also has a camera ready at a moment’s notice. Just as a fisherman loves to reel in a big fish, most people love to capture big embarrassing acts they see. Don’t be a big fish another would want to reel in for show and tell in cyberspace. Pictures posted online are there forever. (And, evidently so are ones placed in clouds.)
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3. Get out of, and away from, poor situations. Guilt by association. No amount of explaining can help you out of this kind of photo.
4. Seek lovely, edifying, and uplifting subjects to photograph. Create new focal points of interest for your sphere of influence to enjoy.
Mary Ellen Archer, last sunset of 2012
5. Ask permission to post photos of others. Your friend, or daughter, may not love the picture as much as you do! Your friend may also not want his/her child’s photo on social media. Be sensitive to other’s wishes and ask those photographed before posting to social media, and, perhaps before saving to a cloud!
Happy shooting, saving and posting!
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