I'm with you on the No People in my Photos thing.

Debbie saw that about a month into our relationship when we visited Fort Sumter, South Carolina. As we stepped off the tourist boat I told her "So, I'm going to be darting around rather quickly trying to get photos without any of these people in them." Which I then did. :-)

I have on a couple of occasions enlisted the help of a graphics professional to neatly photoshop people out of my photos.