Where's my picture?

Its the end of the month,and today just became a little bit more special because a friend had her birthday. There was a surprise birthday party held for her today and as usual,i was the "official' photographer.Not that I'm complaining of having to take pictures in an event where i should be relaxing,i mean I'm honored just to be invited.but as i was just "touching-up" the pictures i realized that there isn't that many pictures of me in them.i mean its like i was not there.This what got me thinking..is it just me or is it the photographer cardinal rule of "take pictures but do not get your pictures taken" because it really seems like it.

I'm not just complaining( maybe I'm not even complaining) about not having that many pictures to show of my "involvement' in certain events,it does take the enthusiasm of being a photographer.take the Toshihiko Izutsu conference for example,i took hundreds of pictures of different people in different situations and most of them are beautiful(not intended to flatter myself) but when i look back,i had this thought that just maybe,maybe i shouldn't have bought along my Canon for that event purely because i wanted people to take pictures of me instead of the usual way.

its not that I'm beginning to hate photography,its just that no one ever pointed that out to me,that you can rarely see a photographer getting his picture taken and when it does, from a photographer point of view, that ( well i might be exaggerating a bit but what the hell) us photographers do exist in front of you.

but i think its not that big of a prolem to me because i get to take beautiful pictures of beauiful people( although i think that i could have been taking much more beautiful pictures but i'm too lazy to buy the necessary equipments)so until there is a day when get to project myself in a certain environment and still be capturing that moment,i'll have to settle of being the man behind the picture..

Arrivederci!