I asked ChatGPT for ideas for posts, one of its suggestions was my five favourite/best holiday photographs. While I like the idea and will at some point write a post around my five favourite/best photos, I thought I’d flip the idea and write about my dullest/WTF photographs. We all have photos in our camera rolls where, looking back, you think, why did I take that photo?, why did I think it was worthy of one?
Anyway, here are five photographs that I’ve taken that are dull and pointless.
This is a photo taken in my hotel bathroom in Kyoto, Japan. I thought it was a great idea to have a USB charging point by the toilet. Very handy, but also very dull. Just what every traveller needs: a place to charge your phone while discharging yourself.
Another photo taken in a toilet, this time at Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan. Although it shows all the toilet’s functions I was most interested in the music function. This function plays a jingle while you’re doing your business, hopefully disguising any other sounds. Dull, but also mildly interesting.
This photo is more sad than dull. I tidied my office desk drawers one day, and found I had acquired a cutlery hoarding fetish. Weirdly, I was hoarding knives and forks, and totally independently my colleague next to me had been hoarding spoons. Between us we had a 24-piece cutlery set.
I’m starting to worry that I take too many photos in public toilets. This time in O’Neils, Wardour Street, London. What interested me this time was the height of the hand dryers. How low? Spray-back onto your trousers, or in my case, jeans, is inevitable. I think I took this photo to explain to my friends, that the damp patches on my jeans were caused by the dryer blowback not splashback from urinating…. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
I actually like the last dull/WTF photograph. Taken at Akihabara Station, Tokyo, Japan. I love Japan. I adore how organised things are, and how everyone follows the rules. Here commuters are queuing diligently in their lanes waiting for their train. No pushing, no overcrowding, just order, and respect. Dull, but beautiful at the same time.
So there you go, five of my dullest photos from my camera roll. Although these photos are dull, I took them all for a reason and some of them are quite interesting when I add the story and thought behind each photo. The only thing that jumps out at me regarding these photos is that I really need to stop taking photos in public toilets.
Take care,
Mike
Who Wrote This?
Note: All me. Only a human would be dull enough to write this.