On photography

This is a photo gallery one of the guys on our team made from his trip to Italy - link.

Really amazing pictures. Something after my own taste. Artistic, simple, beautiful.

That's the thing about pictures that people don't entirely understand: they don't always have to include a person to make them good. Look at the long shots of Rome and tell me why having some bozo in the middle of the shot, blocking the view, would be a good thing. Ever seen a photo gallery (online, in this case) where every picture features the same group of people with different backdrops? What's the point of that? Yes, I got it, that's you and your friends. OK, here you are posing in your apartment. Here you are posing in front of a fountain. And here again. And again. I've seen you enough times to draw a portait blind-folded. Is the purpose of your gallery narcissism or trying to photograph every possible occurence of people smiling? Or, not smiling, as may be the case of goth or emo galleries.