22nd January 2012

I love this digital age.  Yesterday I spent an entire morning trying to buy some quality white cotton fabric. After trying three fabric shops, I gave up, went home, and within minutes had bought some on-line. Along with some beautiful Lota Jansdotter fabric - oops! (Don't tell my husband!) 

I got thinking about how photography has changed over the past few years. While I feel nostalgic about my old A-1, this is purely for the history we have together. The bands we've seen, the friendships that have been maintained or re-forged through the photos and facebook (technology again!) and the element of surprise.....will that photo come out as I hope? I love her metal body and the clunk of her shutter. But, I don't miss going out to buy film, then taking the exposed film to the chemist or posting it....waiting days for the pictures to come back..... realizing how to improve the pictures.....and repeat....the whole process could take weeks! And without a darkroom - any image manipulation had to be done 'in camera' and any cropping with a sharp knife! Now I've use GIMP . (It's not kinky, like the name may suggest!).

Sadly, too often it's the quantity of photographs that has increased, not the quality. Hey ho, at least I don't have physically sit through hours of other people's holiday slides.....one click on the internet and it's all over!