Might not be the best place to ask this, but I'd like to get the opinions of the board because I think the posters here might be in more traditional relationships like myself.
So, yeah. Why so many pictures? You just lived it! You walked through the reality! You experienced it!
*"Wait, wait, wait. Lets stage a photo around something we're about to do or have already done!"*
Me? I just did that! I don't want to go backwards and fake out a rehash of what just transpired.
I get memorabilia and nostalging out. But with phone cameras, EVERYTHING gets a picture. It's not just a few of your wife, you and friends kayaking. There's 10 shots of a single squirrel, 20 of them doing dumb shit and acting goofy and 30 of them pointing at objects and signs with their mouths agape.
What is the fascination with women and taking pictures? I genuinely want to know.
Men tend to look forward. They tend to think of the future and make plans and contingency plans and such. Men want to think about what's coming, and don't worry so much about the past, unless of course the past has something to say about what is coming.
Women look and live in the past. That's just who they are and how they think. That's why men are so easy to forgive someone and forget but women simply can't do that.
It's important to be aware of this fact in your relationship with your wife. You are not trying to mold her into a "mini-man" but to allow her to express her feminine aspects safely and intelligently.
You might say something like, "I like taking photos but I think it's a bit much to stage them and I think the kids are losing the excitement of the moment." Women like it when you show that you understand them and have empathy for other people's feelings.