you're not smiling, let's take another one...

Ok, I admit it, I am obssessed with taking pictures. If it's there, I will snap it. Notice my deliberate use of the word "it's" instead of "he/she", well that's because I hate taking pictures of people because the minute u shove a lense in their face, they smile. Eventually, when I do manage to get a few pictures of non-smiling-people they insist on checking them out and then look at the money-shot (that would probably have won me a Pulitzer Price) and go "oh, no that one is not nice, I'm not smiling, take another one". At this point I am ready to take another one (shot of that vodka.) It is much much better for me to take pictures of things that are not allowed to pose. You know: Doors, Trees, The N1 traffic etc. Obviously this non-smiling thing has given me a complex because I don't smile in pictures taken of me. Now this is a problem for people as it means that i am not happy. So I always get a blank stare and a "you're not smiling, let's take another one". As you can imagine, I am already hoping that they are reffering to the bottle of vodka on the table and not another happy-snappy picture. So my one friend, Miss Smarty-pants came up with a solution that worked for a while. Rather have them take pictures of you from the back. This seemed to be working for her for a while until the point where she was not in control of who took pictures (curses the camera phone). So now, she like me, has caved in and we are now party of the happy-snappy brigade just smiling form ear to ear as soon as someone starts to snap because at least then "picture time" is out of the way and we can get down to that bottle of red that is being neglected on the table.