An idea for a crowd-sourced photo app that I can’t decide to love or hate.

I had a few photography incidents recently that made me think about how photography fits into people's lives:

1. A friend was driving me home, and had her phone in her lap. At a stoplight, she showed the instagram photo she'd been looking at. (That phone was confiscated for the rest of the trip.) 

2.  I needed a photo of myself, and the only good ones I could find were self portraits. (In a past life I was a photographer).

3. I went to dinner at another friend's house and she was lamenting the amazing lives of far-away friends she was seeing on social media. I told her my photography mantra: No one takes photos when they're really engaged with the people around them. Some people can remind themselves to take photos when they want to capture a great time, but it generally takes everyone out of the moment.

I used these observations to play around with an idea for a photo service that I find simultaneously terrifying and... kind of cool.