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Is there evidence of your presence at Christmas?

46 replies

Christmasaurus · 25/12/2017 22:47

I just ask because once again, despite the fact that I mention it periodically, dh has not taken a single photo today (except for a photo of a joke out of a cracker because it was so bad.....) So once again, when we look back over family photos of family time we will see everyone except for me 😡
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I love having my photo taken, but I do like to see myself in photos with the dc, to know they can look back and see me with them.
Every few months I ask him to try and remember to take a few photos now and again, but basically unless I literally say can he please take a photo now it doesn’t happen Xmas Angry

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Mummyoflittledragon · 26/12/2017 05:39

Tell me about it. I have to badger dh in to taking photos. Dd is 9 now so I think there will be more evidence. She already knows he’s crap at taking them.

OldBook · 26/12/2017 05:40

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Yoshimihere · 26/12/2017 05:48

I look so awful in them I could cry
Your DC will just see their lovely mummy. Took me a while to realise that.

BoomBoomsCousin · 26/12/2017 05:56

My DH always takes photos and I don't think to. To be honest I really dislike people concentrating on taking photos trying to capture "natural" moments. DH can be too busy with his camera to actually participate sometimes, he was distracted or caught on the hop several times today as he juggled his phone when the DC were trying to do something that they really just wanted him to be a part of and he left me to think about everything else that needed doing. The DC like looking at the photos when he calls them over to see them, but they never ask to look and we don't look back on them unless FaceBook promotes one from previous years on his wall.

Ohyesiam · 26/12/2017 06:57

Do selfies of you and the kids. I do it all the time.

SlimDogMillionaire · 26/12/2017 07:07

Same! But why is this so common?

QueenAmongstMen · 26/12/2017 07:11

I remember once when I was about 12 and I was looking through some photo albums from my very early childhood with my Grandma. The album was full of photos of me with my dad, over and over again and hardly any of me with my mom.

I passed a typical teenager comment along the lines of, "Did my mom even like me, it isn't as though there's any photos to show that she did!"

And my grandma said, "Of course she liked you. Who do you think is behind the camera taking the photo? The reason your mother isn't in the photos is because she's the one who loved you so much in that moment that she wanted to capture it to remember it forever"

I have never, ever forgotten that conversation because it was so poignant.

BaffledMummy · 26/12/2017 07:14

YES! I had a big snotty cry on my DH a couple of years ago when I looked back on photos from my DD's first 6 months and realised there were hardly any photos of me with her and millions of really lovely ones of him and DD. I remember getting upset thinking that when my DD is older, she'd think I never cuddled her or if I died then she wouldn't have anything to look back on. Anyway, after that DH has been quite careful to take shots of us both occasionally but like PP, I usually hate the way I look in them and get him to delete them Blush so basically the poor man can't win!
I'm thinking of getting a professional family shoot this year so hopefully I will look half decent in them and If not I will have no qualms in getting them photoshopped so I have no wrinkles or blubbery bits Grin

brizzledrizzle · 26/12/2017 07:20

Mardie, most phones have a timer for photos now, get yourself a cheap tripod and off you go.

alarox · 26/12/2017 07:22

I love DH but this is one of few things about him that wind me up. I hate being in photos, but want DC to have memories of me/us/family life. I love looking at old photos of grandparents/parents when they were younger, and make an effort to take our own photos and print/back up/put them in albums. DH knows it's important to me. I don't go overboard snapping, just a phone pic or two at the right moment.

I Lost. My. Shit when my DD was born earlier this year. A few days post birth I sent the photos I took to DH. Not many, but a few up close pics of him sat cradling our new child in the hospital chair, her sleepy face, his loving expression, her fingers wrapped around his, some lovely shots. He sent me the couple he'd taken. Only one was of me and DD. I'm holding her sat on the hospital bed. My eyes are half shut. You can't see DDs face. It's blurry, out of focus, and he took it from a distance so we're lost among the all the ward crap.

He can take great pictures; he was photographer at my sister's wedding and they're the best wedding pics I've ever seen. The shitty photos he took in hospital just told me he didn't care. I told him so. I showed him my pictures of him, and compared his awful picture of me. I cried and said how I just wanted a semi decent picture of me and our baby, how I'd never have those precious moments again, he had beautiful pictures to look back on, and I had nothing though I was the one who carried her for 9 months and pushed her out. He ended up crying too, apologising, and he said he'd do better.

The only thing he does different now is he takes lots of crappy pics instead of just one. He sent me 30 pics of me helping our 8 month old open her first Christmas present yesterday, taken in quick succession. He said "here you go, there's bound to be a good photo there somewhere". There's not. Same issues; blurry, out of focus etc. I'm not saying anything, if my post partum rage didn't get the message across, nothing will. Selfies all the way (sorry that was long Blush)

Cheby · 26/12/2017 07:29

Dd2’s first Christmas. Not a single photo with my face in it. Hundreds of DH. I mentioned it multiple times through the day, he still didn’t do anything. I’m really fed up.

dudsville · 26/12/2017 07:31

My oh is the one who takes all the photos. It took me a few years and the build up of embarrassment of showing pics to his family, for me to realise I need to take pics. I HATE taking pics. I'd much rather take part and would prefer everyone else to do the same!

MrsHathaway · 26/12/2017 09:24

I took a selfie leaving midnight mass; BIL took a photo of us all at the table yesterday.

I hate photos of myself and avoid being in them. But I am sad that there aren't any. My brain cannot reconcile these two positions.

Bodicea · 26/12/2017 09:34

No pics of me. I took the pics of them opening presents with dh. I did the Christmas dinner and then took the picture of everyone eating around the Christmas table. No one offered to to get one with me in it.

Ginorchoc · 26/12/2017 09:47

Hardly any of me and DD, none of us in Hospital when she was born or first Christmas, birthday, mother’s day all the usual as I’m a single parent and no one to take them. Prob fill half an album from her first 13 years of us together. Hundreds of my dd though.

NigellasGuest · 26/12/2017 09:54

My presence is everywhere at Christmas - in the atmosphere, the presents, the food, the decorations. As for photos, we didn’t take any of anyone! It’s not the foremost thing on anyone’s minds on Christmas Day I don’t think. Year round, there are plenty. One of my DDs is a talented photographer and will always get the best shots of anyone.

ContraryLollipop · 26/12/2017 10:11

Same situation here.

There are only limited opportunities for a good pic, when I have make up on, contacts in, hair done, dressed nicely, the kids are clean... in one of those rare moments I’ll ask DH for a pic and he’ll go ‘What? Sorry? Huh? A photo? Now? Seriously?’ And then take one snap with an exasperated sigh and I’ll have to ask him to take more, or move around to avoid something the background, or try to get the baby to look over, etc. Such hard work!

He took some of me with kids at a family wedding this year and they are lovely photos, I notice MIL has framed one in her house. However I don’t like the photo because I can see that I have a really forced smile, as was trying not to cry at DH being so horrible about taking the photo!

He isn’t selfish in other ways though, he is lovely! And he does love looking at lovely pictures of him with the DCs so I really don’t understand his attitude at all.

Thursdaydreaming · 26/12/2017 10:12

I used to get secretly annoyed about this, but I thought it seemed awkward to be asking "take my photo". Now I've gotten over that though and if I want one I ask. Not hint either, I say nicely but firmly "I want you to take my photo here, you stand there, bend down a bit, I'll stand like this, put camera landscape, ok one more please". I must sound so weird and bossy if anyone overhears but who cares!

LoafEater · 26/12/2017 11:43

If I was ever kidnapped my family would struggle to find a photo of me for the police.

Seeinthedark · 26/12/2017 12:05

My ds first Christmas was last year and the photos for that were on dps iPad which malfunctioned and deleted them all (as well as photos taken after he was born). Yesterday ds was snotty and miserable so didn't take any then. He has no pictures for his first two Christmases. I'm determined to get some next year.

Christmasaurus · 26/12/2017 19:27

loafeater that’s SO true Xmas Grin

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