Picture This!
May 11th 2010 14:00
If a picture is worth a thousand words, when it comes to our son, we have the photographic equivalent of the local library saved on our computer. We have literally thousands of pictures of him, spanning from before he was born to last weekend. And he's only two years old! Thanks to the magic of digital cameras, we never have to worry about running out of film. Our main concern these days is dead batteries. So we go to family events and snap away, taking picture after picture. Once we get home we upload them onto the computer, fix all the red-eye, crop, resize, post to Facebook, email to family, all that good stuff. We'll never be short on pictures of our son, and even if my computer crashes, they're all backed up on my Ipod.
Sometimes, though, I wish we could go back to when we didn't have unlimited photo capabilities. Don't get me wrong, I love everything you can do with digital cameras. But I remember my first camera, a cheap little Kodak 110 that I was absolutely thrilled with. But I only had 24 pictures per roll, and I had to make them count. It's really a shame I was a horrible photographer! At my parents' house, the entirety of my childhood is contained within seven or eight photo albums, and I know most of the pictures in these albums. They all have meaning to me and evoke some sort of nostalgia.
Out of the thousands of pictures of our son, there are a few good nuggets. Pictures I really like and find worthy of sharing. The vast majority, though I hate to admit it, aren't that great. A lot of them are kind of blurry ones I didn't bother to delete. Most of the others are OK, but not really memorable. Just taken because we had the ability to take them. I've been trying to taper back on the rampant picture-taking, and I think we've ended up with better pictures because of it. Plus it's one less thing to worry about!
I think my dad said it best-do you want to take pictures of good times, or be a part of them?
Sometimes, though, I wish we could go back to when we didn't have unlimited photo capabilities. Don't get me wrong, I love everything you can do with digital cameras. But I remember my first camera, a cheap little Kodak 110 that I was absolutely thrilled with. But I only had 24 pictures per roll, and I had to make them count. It's really a shame I was a horrible photographer! At my parents' house, the entirety of my childhood is contained within seven or eight photo albums, and I know most of the pictures in these albums. They all have meaning to me and evoke some sort of nostalgia.
Out of the thousands of pictures of our son, there are a few good nuggets. Pictures I really like and find worthy of sharing. The vast majority, though I hate to admit it, aren't that great. A lot of them are kind of blurry ones I didn't bother to delete. Most of the others are OK, but not really memorable. Just taken because we had the ability to take them. I've been trying to taper back on the rampant picture-taking, and I think we've ended up with better pictures because of it. Plus it's one less thing to worry about!
I think my dad said it best-do you want to take pictures of good times, or be a part of them?
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