Let alone including yourself in the picture. I know how you look like.
Let alone including your loved ones in the picture.
Even when their disappointment of having to face away from the monument is clearly visible in the photo.
And then you make them do stuff like ‘hold the sun in your hands’ or whatever.
Maybe you’re right, I might appreciate it 30/40years down the road but definitely not 10 years. I have photos from 10 years back but I never look at them. They only stay because storage is cheap.
You will change, and places change. It’s amazing looking at things years later. I have a picture at the top of the Twin Towers in Manhattan in 2000 (and I was the kind of person who didn’t like to take pictures of myself while traveling).
Things you do now may be relevant in the future. And you probably underestimate the power of nostalgia. XDDD
Edit: btw, voted because this is a truly unpopular opinion. :)
Once you start losing contact with people and people start dying looking back at old photos can be a really nice way to spend an evening.
The photo itself might not be that interesting but it might remind you of something funny or interesting that happened that day so long ago you haven’t thought of it for decades.
You might even appreciate some of them maybe a few months or a year down the road!
As a point of data, I’ve had a no-photo policy for 20 years, and haven’t started missing it yet.