Macau's Ruins of St Paul. People kept coming up to me and asking to take a picture with me. This group of 7 girls showed me their camera, wanting me to be in a group photo. Then a two-shot. Then another girl joined, but also wanted an individual shot with me. This went on for about 20 photos.

Strangers want to take a photo with you

People ask to take a photo with you you all over Asia. They’re not asking for help taking a photo of them. They want you in it! To help you avoid the surprise of this happening, I’ll share some details of the experience.

Feel like a celebrity in Asia!

If someone holds out their camera and asks if you can take a picture, and motions with their finger on the camera trigger, you’d probably assume they want you to take a photo of them. That was not the case.  People were constantly asking to take a photo with me.  WITH me. I feel like a celebrity!

They wanted to have a photo of the two of us in a photo, like you would if you saw a celebrity. This happened more than a dozen times in my day trip to Macau.

And when it’s a group, they often want a group shot as well as individual shots with me. Bizarre!

I saw this for the first time last year in Taiwan, but it happened much more during my day in Macau.

I’m a celebrity rockstar!

Here’s a few of them that ended up on my camera as well:

This guy below asked me to be in a photo with him – on my camera. Then he asked for this pose – we look like we just signed a treaty

we look like we just signed a treaty
He asked me to be in a photo with him – on my camera. Then he asked for this pose – we look like we just signed a treaty!

Macau’s Ruins of St Paul. People kept coming up to me and asking to take a picture with me. This group of 7 girls showed me their camera, wanting me to be in a group photo. Then a two-shot. Then another girl joined, but also wanted an individual shot with me. This went on for about 20 photos!

Macau's Ruins of St Paul. People kept coming up to me and asking to take a picture with me. This group of 7 girls showed me their camera, wanting me to be in a group photo. Then a two-shot. Then another girl joined, but also wanted an individual shot with me. This went on for about 20 photos.
Macau’s Ruins of St Paul. People kept coming up to me and asking to take a picture with me. This group of 7 girls showed me their camera, wanting me to be in a group photo. Then a two-shot. Then another girl joined, but also wanted an individual shot with me. This went on for about 20 photos.

For more on a Macau day trip, I’ve put together a 29 photo tour for you.

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