« Reminder of the day | Main | Budgets... »
Analog
Just picked up my developed pics.
I am sooo excited, like I started photography all over again.
Digital photography doesn't compete with analog on the exciting part.
Nothing so exciting as handing in a film, and waiting for the development, and the first look at the fresh pics. Are they good or not?
The surprise.
To understand this feeling, one needs to experience a dark room. The moment your negative is projected onto the paper, and the white paper goes into the developper.
Pure Magic.
Hmmmmm.
It is probably a rather filosophical way of looking upon photography, but the fact that with digital the 'now' becomes 'past' by the immediate review on the back of the camera changes the situation around you.
You probably recognize the situation in which people start to review freshly taken pics on the back of their cameras, instead of enjoying the situation itself.
It's like we all became little Japanese people who travel around and film/take pictures but who's journey starts at home while watching their trip, and thus seeing things for the first time.
I'll refuse to show any pictures on New Year's Eve, not because I don't want to show them, but because I want to enjoy the night as a 'NOW' event, and not as a memory before it actually became a memory.
Hope my companions understand this ;°)
(Yep, I a know you are reading it...)
Posted on December 30, 2005
in Projects - Photography
Digg this | 
Add to Delicious | Technorati reactions | Permalink | 
Comments (1)
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.matuvu.nu/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/905
Comments
Analoog is en blijft heerlijk. Over die Japanners heb je gelijk. Ik neem zelf enkel een camera mee als ik op voorhand weet dat ik hem voor iets deftig zal gebruiken.
Leven is de confrontatie aangaan met vergankelijkheid. Hoe directer je dat doet, des te beter.
Posted by Pietel | January 2, 2006 10:30 AM