When words become unclear...
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. - Ansel Adams.
I love digital cameras, I think they are a great technology that lets taking photographs feel easier, more efficient and allows the photographer to know that they got the best shot they could.
But I know I'm going to miss being able to leaf through all the old photos, asking my mother who this is, where that was and all of those things. I'm taking all of my family photos and moving them onto the computer and disks, so I know that I'll always have them no matter where I go. It also makes me want to take pictures constantly. I know that there is a good chunk of time where I avoided the camera and everything about it, but now I want to record everything, every detail, even if I don't like them all. I want to take as many photos as I can of my cousins and my sisters and you and me, I want to take pictures of my grandmother especially, because she will not let me but I think she is the most beautiful person in the world. Because sometimes our memory isn't all we have - we have these snapshots.
Maybe one day I will take them all and print them out, organize them into albums and boxes and have these pictures to look through when I have my own children.
I love digital cameras, I think they are a great technology that lets taking photographs feel easier, more efficient and allows the photographer to know that they got the best shot they could.
But I know I'm going to miss being able to leaf through all the old photos, asking my mother who this is, where that was and all of those things. I'm taking all of my family photos and moving them onto the computer and disks, so I know that I'll always have them no matter where I go. It also makes me want to take pictures constantly. I know that there is a good chunk of time where I avoided the camera and everything about it, but now I want to record everything, every detail, even if I don't like them all. I want to take as many photos as I can of my cousins and my sisters and you and me, I want to take pictures of my grandmother especially, because she will not let me but I think she is the most beautiful person in the world. Because sometimes our memory isn't all we have - we have these snapshots.
Maybe one day I will take them all and print them out, organize them into albums and boxes and have these pictures to look through when I have my own children.