Tacky Tourist Photos

SUBMITTED BY: Ari Zackin   LOCATION: Sarasota, Florida (2010)
Contrary to popular belief, a concrete tiger will never hurt you — as long as you leave it alone.

(Ari Zackin and his father Mark blog about their travels at http://zackinfamily.wordpress.com )

Barack Obama has millions of friends. Barack Obama has millions of enemies.
We don’t get caught up in domestic political squabbles here at Tacky Tourist Photos, although we do occasionally stick our nose into international affairs.
Bottom line is this.  TTP loves Barack Obama for fulfilling our spirit and mission during this 2006 campaign stop.
We invite him [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Tara Seppa   LOCATION: Instanbul, Turkey (2009)
Rest assured, she only performs with clean toilet seats!
(Travel junkie and adventure blogger Tara Seppa is currently based in Prague).

SUBMITTED BY: Mike Faucher   LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts (2003)
And you thought the frozen Ted Williams got abused?
The bronzed Red Auerbach, the basketball mastermind who coached the Boston Celtics dynasty in the 1960s and puffed cigar smoke in opponents’ faces, can’t get any respect either.
Says Tacky Tourist Photos model Mike Faucher: “Who says you can [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Brandon Seppa    LOCATION: Red Square, Moscow, Russia (2009)
Despite having whimsical cupcake churches like St. Basil’s Cathedral near the Kremlin, our Russian-born sources swear that Moscow is the city that never smiles.
That doesn’t stop the exuberant Brandon from expressing his zest for life.
Twenty years ago, this kind of nonconformity may have earned [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Barrie Mirman   LOCATION: Somewhere in the French Countryside (2009)
The man in this picture has multiple engineering degrees from prestigious universities.
Yet, it does not register to him that rolling a square is a lot tougher than rolling a circle!
(Barrie Mirman is thrilled to be married to the co-founder of Tacky Tourist Photos. [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Andreas Papaioannides   LOCATION: Seine River, Paris, France (2009)
How many American tourists does it take to hang on an iron ship anchor ring?
We don’t resolve that question here because two of these three guys are citizens of Greece.  We won’t tell you which ones, because, well, Tacky Tourist Photos believes we are all [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Ilya Mirman    LOCATION: Louvre Fountains — Paris, France (2009)
This is either an inside joke or the next Benneton jeans ad.
Strike that. If this were a Benneton ad, there would be a female priest and a female rabbi making out, with each one being a different ethnicity just to rile up people who get [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Henderson    LOCATION: Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
Now appearing Off-Off-Off-Off-Broadway: Brian Henderson and the Sneeches!
(Brian Henderson is a photojournalist who vacations with the elite on Martha’s Vineyard. Efforts to perform for President Barack Obama were unsuccessful).

OTHER TACKY MARTHA’S VINEYARD SNAPSHOTS:
Death of an Amphibian Icon: Kermit the Frog at the West Tisbury Fair.

SUBMITTED BY: Brad from The Terrible Catsafterme
LOCATION: Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, Las Vegas (2009)
Only one in five billion of us are fortunate enough to share our blessings as a Playboy centerfold. But the fantasy stays alive.
A couple more glasses of wine, and Hugh Hefner might not be able to resist Brad’s sexy Shazam-Bunny Ears ensemble!
(Brad’s [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Pete Kilroy LOCATION: North London, England
And people make fun of Trekkies?
You won’t find a more obsessed group than Beatles fans, who 40 years after the release of their last album, Abbey Road, still flock to the site of the original album cover.
Naturally, telling them it’s just a frickin’ crosswalk (or “Zebra [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Brad from The Terrible Catsafterme blog    LOCATION: Pisa, Italy (2009)
It takes a visionary to visit a tourist trap where everyone takes the same cookie-cutter photo and walk away with a shot that’s fresh and provocative.
It takes a sexist visionary, but who are we to point fingers after the Jessica Simpson “waxual harassment” [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Darren Garnick     LOCATION: Caesar’s Palace Hotel, Las Vegas (1995)
Never leave your wife alone with two scantily-clad European guys!
Notice the provocative knee bend.

(Darren Garnick is a co-founder and curator for Tacky Tourist Photos.com)

SUBMITTED BY: David Douglas Stuart, a.k.a. “Big Kamo”     LOCATION: Nagoya, Japan (2003)
Unless you’re singing the national anthem or are a major advertiser, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium would never let you on the field for a fantasy jog around the bases. Not so at the sacred sumo rings at the Nagoya Grand Sumo [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Ilya Mirman    LOCATION: Times Square, New York (2009)
When the chain restaurants, Ferris wheels and wax museums replaced the strippers during the Rudy Giuliani administration, Times Square became just another mall, albeit with much tougher parking.
How refreshing, then, to stumble across Ms. Naked Cowgirl, a gregarious grandmotherly figure who’ll bite your head [...]