<p>Please do not take pictures of me/other tour guides. It's creepy.</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
<p>This is cute and completely understandable! We didn’t take any pictures on our tours, although with hindsight it would have helped, and honestly, remembering who the tour guide is can really jog your memory for all kinds of other details. For instance, when we were trying to remember details about different schools, as soon as one of us could remember who the tour guide was (you know - the tall thin guy with the scruffy beard who said he was a Poly Sci major and wanted to become a speech writer?..), we could remember a bunch of other details about the tour. So i guess i can see how having a picture of the tour guide could help you place a bunch of details floating around in your memory. Or it could just be creepy. If I take a camera along for son #2 college trips, i will make sure to leave the tour guide out of it!</p>
<p>Wonder what sparked your post.</p>
<p>today was one of my first tours, and a dad shoved his camera in my face when he thought I wasn’t looking and took a flash photo of me. Not only was it really awkward, but he then tried to pretend like he hadn’t done anything and put the camera behind him. </p>
<p>I’d have no problem with someone who was like, “hey, little Jimmy and I would like to get a picture with you.” But surprise in-your-face photographs fall into the stalker/social ineptitude category. :(</p>
<p>Really creepy. One of my S’s friends at H had foreign tourists take pictures of her doing laundry in the dorm…she liked to think it was because she looks beautiful at all times even when half asleep, in old sweats and in the dimly lit basement of the dorm. The alternative reasons for the photos could have been that tourists were amazed to see an AA student at H, amazed to see any student doing laundry, or, perhaps her photo was to serve as proof that you can hire out the laundry at H… </p>
<p>You know you could go ahead and announce that you have exclusive rights to your image and, as a musical theatre major, you are following your agent’'s instructions …or that photo images steal the soul and to please respect your culture…let them know there is a club for students with the same camera-avoidance issues…the club also serves pancakes for free on the weekend (no cameras, cell phones or video equipment allowed)…just suggestions for making you an especially memorable tour guide without the photo…</p>
<p>I read this post yesterday and was like uh, okay…then I got filmed today as I was walking back to my dorm from classes. Definitely a little creepy!</p>
<p>I am reminded of a friend who works at an Ivy League school, in the library. She often takes breaks outside, and has no doubt that she appears in the photo collections of hundreds of complete strangers.</p>
<p>that’s funny 
although you would be happy to hear that i never take pictures of other people whom i don’t know. intentionally, that is.</p>