The Twilight Report

Today I was by the opera house showing some friends of the family around our fair city. I was about to sit down on this chair when someone from a region outside Australia and the US^[1] approached me with his camera and uttered something incoherent in fragmentary English. At first I thought that he wanted me to take a picture of him with this girl who appeared to be with him, but actually what he wanted me to do was get the hell out of the way so that she could take a picture of him. It's not like I had been standing anywhere near where they were, I guess he just decided to preemptive inform me that his personal time and space was more valuable than mine.

Am I out of line here in thinking that it is good camera etiquette to

1. avoid walking between camera and subject when approaching a group of people who are obviously are taking a photograph and
2. when photographing yourself in front of a cultural icon in such a way that the photograph will look so identical to a million others that there will be zero artistic merit to the thing that you really ought to frame the photograph without disturbing people who are minding their own business, especially when all the wanted to do was sit down in a chair which had clearly not been claimed by anyone.

yeah. so.

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[1] I won't specify exactly which region