Taking photos: perspective

[labelleizzy]

I remember when it felt like, when I was little, that only wealthy people could take a lot of photographs. The cost for film and processing was well out of range of our usual weekly or monthly budget. And here I am taking 16 photos a day sometimes, selfies, of my cat, different lighting effects in my house. Clouds outside the window. Just because I want to and because I've got this tiny Apollo mission-sized memory unit in my pocket with a more than decent camera lens. And voice to text, so I don't have to type everything out by hand. Just another way in which life is good. #betterlivingthroughscience

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[noahgibbs]

I'm pretty similar. Never used to be interested in taking photos, now I have around twenty thousand sitting around, carefully indexed.

To be fair, when we were young it *was* a lot more expensive to take lots of photographs.

[qos]

I've seen people talk about the fact that "kids these days" don't know what it was like to have to wait a week to find out if any of our photos turned out, but not about the cost element. That's a nice insight.

[labelleizzy]

Also, it just occurred to me to remember that another human, a stranger, was developing our photos and therefore looking at each one. I took a photo of my first husband cuddling our (his?) cat Sebastian, who he'd just stepped out of the shower. Apparently I didn't frame the photo high enough 😂😂 😂 because when it was developed and returned there was a warning sticker on the photo on Josh's belly just above where his thatch showed, and the root of his penis.
A WARNING STICKER. 😂😂

I kinda wish now that I remembered what that sticker said but it was close to 20 years ago now.