This Insta account is calling BS on people’s glamorous camping photos

PRETENTIOUS posers who flood our Instagram feeds with unrealistic holiday snaps are being exposed on the platform — and it’s hilarious.

An Instagram account is calling BS on people’s unrealistic camping photos. Picture: iStock

CERTAIN people on Instagram, and their picture-perfect lives, have a way of making us feel pretty inferior about our own.

It’s especially the case with holiday photos, and when we compare other people’s extraordinarily well-framed, well-lit, well-composed snaps in exotic locations to our boring old amateur ones.

Take, if you will, this stunning photograph of a very cool camper in what appears to be Trolltunga in Norway, gazing at the view next to his very cool tent, on the edge of a rock formation only he is cool enough to spend the night, looking like he’s in a glossy magazine shoot.

Your last camping adventure doesn’t quite compare, does it?

Well, this might make you feel better — your experience is real and that one probably isn’t.

The Instagram account @YouDidNotSleepThere is calling out pretentious posers flooding the platform with glamorous shots of “illogical” campsites.

Luisa, the Canadian woman behind @YouDidNotSleepThere, told Field magazine the idea for the account came about during a trip to the Grand Canyon.

“My friend was like, ‘Let’s set the tent up over here and take a picture.’ And I was like, ‘What? Why are you doing that?’ And she was like, ‘People do that all the time!’” she said.

“I was completely caught off guard and thought it was just the most ridiculous thing ever, but when we got back home I started noticing how much people really do do that, and I started looking at photos wondering if they were actually legit.”

There are three kinds of camp photo cliches that really rubs Luisa the wrong way.

“The crazy long exposure night shots with the light in the tent,” she said. “That one drives me crazy. It’s like, ‘Oh let’s throw a light in our tent and take the same photo everyone else has taken 100 times’.

“Camping really close to water. That really gets people going too ... [and] hammocks in ridiculous places. Pretty cringe worthy. I just feel like it’s all so cliche now. But people still eat it up, which is insane.”

The account has attracted more than 38,300 followers, largely thanks to Luisa’s witty captions.

The 28-year-old has been blocked by big-name travel photographers who have taken offence to the account, but she doesn’t really care.

“I do know that when people started blocking me I was like, Ahh this is what I’m talking about!” she said.