[waffles]

This is the other side of mrodgers' thread. Do you purposely put yourself into pictures taken by people you don't know?

With today's digital stuff, I have no problem doing it. If they don't like me in the picture they can erase it and take another one. I'm really only talking about the touristy shots here. Standing in front of a monument, stuff like that. I'm not going to put myself into a picture of something they might not be able to get again.

My favorite time to do it is when they're blocking the walkway at amusement parks. There is no reason to make everyone stop going down the path just so you can have your family on one side standing in front of a giant bush made to look like a tiger with you on the other side of the path. It's amazing how many people I hear complaining about stopping when this happens so they won't mess up the picture, but my brother and I are almost always the only people I see walking between the photographer and the subject.

I also like to be in the background doing something stupid. I doubt that anyone notices while taking the picture, and I haven't had anyone ask me to 'behave' yet.