Have a Beer. Don't Cost Nothin'. - September 24th, 2003

I categorically refuse to jump on the "funeral" or "15 things" band wagons. You cannot make me think of mortality, 30 days before my 30th birthday. So, Nyeah, to all of you.

Thus I have written, thus it shall be done.

I think I'm going to use my final LJ code to start a photo-journal. It doesn't give me hosting space, (not that hosting space is a problem for me, being part-owner of BS's hardware) but it does give me a forum for putting pictures up, and I like that idea. I've been playing with photography for more than 20 years now (wow, tha's a loooong time, but it's true. I got my first camera when I was 9. More on that later.)

So, Photo-Journal. I'm not sure what I'll call it yet, which is really why I've not actually started it yet, although I do have a folder of pics ready to put up in one big swoop when I do.

But, it's got me thinking.

I love photograhy. Not just the canon thereof, the arty, well thought out, "intelligent" pictures, but candids, and basic "lets remember this in 5 years" pictures. I love the idea.

Digital photography has been a huge boon to me. Everyone (even me) jokes about how often I upgrade my digital camera, but I'm a junkie for quality, and that means improved lenses, better CCD's and increased MegaPixel numbers, there's no way around that. I really, really like my Minolta, but had the Canon S400 been available when I was buying my Minolta, I would have picked the Canon up, no doubt. Speaking of,

burntflowers, did you ever get yours? I know you were talking about it.

So, the Canon S400 is my current pick, once I sell my Minolta F100. However, I don't think I'd be looking at (or have looked at) either of them very seriously, had my Fuji 4700zoom not gotten broken last fall. I adored that camera, it was amazing, the picture quality was unbelievably good, it had great features, and was _fast_. I adored that camera. It was a little chunky, but it fit well in a pocket.

( My Photographic History. Warning. Contains no photo's )

So, upgrade.

But, As I said when I started this diatribe, I REMEMBER all my camera's. I can tell you which pictures in which album are taken with which camera, or, in the case of digital, which pictures are taken with which camera.

I'm attached to each and every one of the camera's I've owned, digital and 35mm, SLR and Point-n-shoot.

Not only because of WHEN I owned them, what the documented in my life, but they were a part of my life during that period.

I love camera's. I never got into video-camera's in the same way; they weren't.... emotional enough. There was no way to interpret what was on the film in another way; you had sound, there were conversations, the image moved, you saw where people came from, and where they went; it was the whole thing, rather than a clip, an excerpt, frozen in time. Photography still leaves a lot to the imagination, which the video-camera documentation craze doesn't. Oh, I always appreciated the ideal of a "Flash-me-Cam" at parties, *sigh* but beyond that, I didn't have much use for video; it bored me in a way that photography has never done.

Even the crappy point-n-click-at-parties photography I spend so much time doing.

The signal to noise ratio in my photography is high, I must admit, but that's also a part reason for the photo-journal. I don't know if I have any real talent for photography, but, I know I love doing it, and that's enough, at the end of the day. It touches something in me (however cheesy that may sound) that really works; in a way even writing never did.

I don't think I had a point when I started this, and I don't think I made one. Yay for consistency!

cut added 14:50, 2003-09-23

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