The weird, wonderful world of
PHOTOGRAPHY
SAY CHEESE! From suicidal selfies to the last Instagram outposts...
40 billion
(and counting): the number of
photos shared on Instagram as
of May 2018
1816
The year the first
photo was successfully
produced by Joseph
Nicéphore Niépce
800 million
(and counting): the monthly active users on Instagram
THE 10 MOST INSTAGRAMMED CITIES OF 2017 1 |New York, USA
2 |Moscow, Russia 3 |London, UK 4 |São Paulo, Brazil 5 |Paris, France 6 |Los Angeles, USA
7 |St Petersburg, Russia 8 |Jakarta, Indonesia 9 |Istanbul, Turkey 10 |Barcelona, Spain
PUT THE CAMERA AWAY! Snapping photos at the following sites is sure to
get your camera confiscated before you can say “cheese”. If you’re lucky you’ll get
away with a stern warning. If you’re not so lucky, it’ll be a jail sentence…
1 |Inside the Taj Mahal, India 2 |Michelangelo’s sculpture of David in Florence’s
Galleria dell’Accademia, Italy 3 |Emirates Palace, UAE 4 |Vladimir Lenin’s tomb
in Moscow’s Red Square, Russia 5 |Washington DC’s Library of Congress
6 |The Sistine Chapel, Vatican City 7 |Parts of Australia’s sacred
red-orange Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock 8 |Scotland’s
Rosslyn Chapel, most recently made famous by
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code
BE THE
FIRST TO
GET THE
SHOT
The secret to
iconic travel
photography
nowadays is to
capture a shot
that no one
else has taken.
Sightsmap.com
uses a world map to
show the most and
least photographed
destinations. Dark
areas are less popular,
red are moderately busy,
and yellow spots are overrun
with bloggers, Instagrammers
and trigger-happy shutterbugs.
Sources: Telegraph UK, The Economic Times, Conde Nast Traveller, Fox News, pcmag.com, Trip Savvy, Ridiculously Interesting, SightsMap, brandwatch.com
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