A Life Taking Photos
Ever since high school, when my dad gave me my first camera, a Canon AE-1, I have been snapping photos. Back then, there were zoom lenses and extension tubes to screw on and rolls of film to handle carefully, protect from the light,and send in or take to a drug store to process. And that took a while. No smart phones in those days. And thank Goddess for that! I miss taking snaps with my old heavy, complicated camera. It was my art. It took skill as well as a good eye. As computer technology took off, my film that once came back in an envelope as negatives and prints became all that plus a cd or floppy disc with the photos, and I could access them all online through the mail-in developer I used, PhotoWorks. It was amazing and magical. After a while, digital cameras caught my fancy, lightweight and no separate lenses/attachments. They were pretty nice. Then the smart phone came along. This was good for my photography in many many ways but bad in many many ways as well.