Photo me and make sure you get my good side

I love blogs that are very focused in their content. Like this one I discovered today called “Photo Clichés”. The site is all about:

“Collecting pictures of people being uniquely hilarious, just like all the other people who took the same photo”

There’s a whole section on the site dedicated to photographs of Jaws in Universal Studios. This particular photograph made me laugh. I think it’s because I know I would probably do the same thing if I had a child in my arms and were presented with the same photo opportunity.

Titanic is responsible for many things, all of them bad. Photo Cliché focuses in on one of the bad things the film has given us. The outstretched arm pose imitating the scene from the film where that unforgettable “king of the world” line was uttered.

I did a quick search through Flickr for famous Irish locations to see what poses were on offer. I was at least expecting a few photographs of Molly Malone’s ample breasts being fondled, but nairy a one that I saw.

Only one photo with a couple posing with Padraic O’Conaire in Eyre Square.

A handful of heads staring up at the Spire.

This one at St. James’s Gate (king of the world again).

Taking a peek over the ledge at the Cliffs of Moher.

Sitting on Fungi the Dolphin.

Any more you can find?

You might be wondering about the photograph in the header above. It’s there to illustrate another cliched pose. It’s one that I just don’t get and I see it constantly in the local newspaper. It’s the pout and the whole finger on the chin thing. My niece (who modeled the pose for the photoshopping of the image above), reliably informs me that this pose is out of fashion now. The new pose is the pout along with two fingers held horizontal at chest level. This is called the “D4 pose” – that’s what it’s called among the kids of Wickla – don’t know about elsewhere.

If I was a photographer for a local rag, I’d outlaw all this particular pose and replace it with compulsory nose picking. That way, I could build a reputation for being the nose picking photographer. I’m sure there’s a niche for it somewhere.

While I’m on the subject of the nasal passage…Is there anything more gross than someone performing a nasal evacuation in the street? A guy standing casually with his elbow on a bin outside the GPO performed one this morning. The image and sound stuck in my mind all morning. I’m not saying I’ve never nasally evacuated myself, but there is a time and a place – and outside the GPO on a nice sunny morning just isn’t one of them.

Header photo owned by Prodigal Sista and adapted under a CC License. Hand belongs to my niece. It may be out of proportion to the photograph above

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