Remember the days of film? When you had, like, 36 pictures to a roll and you were maybe a bit more selective with your photo opportunities? Maybe that was just me. In any case, my family upgraded to a digital camera only a few years ago, and since that time, we have seen an exponential growth in the number of photos we take. Over the years, Nathan has made photography his main hobby, which means he spends an increasing amount of time going over intricate details of capturing photos.
Thus, we have not only a photograph of every aspect of our daily family life, but also many copies of these photos with subtle differences in shading, lighting, position, framing…well, I don’t know the vernacular, but you get the idea.
This means our computer is already bogged down with snapshots of our life at home; for example, at least seventeen photos of our Thanksgiving turkey, those with flash, without flash, from above, behind, below, turkey-eye view, on the counter, in the oven, on the table, uncarved, then carved…
You can imagine what happens when we travel.
Digital camera
+ amateur photographer husband
+ scenic location
= too many vacation photos than any reasonable person needs:
I’m guilty, too. I borrowed my mother-in-law’s camera and snapped hundreds of photos myself, so not only do we have multiple copies on Nathan’s camera, we have copies of the same photos from my camera.
Besides taking pictures and drinking pina coladas, I actually did a little writing on vacation, but not much. And now that I’m back home and back to a normal schedule, I’m anxious to get back to work…right after I revisit every moment of my vacation as captured digitally.
