Photographs

During my trip to Australia my mom got the laptop cleaned out without telling me. So I didn't know and I didn't think much of it. Till I came back. Fine, I got over the initial surprise that most of my files were no longer around (resumes, some videos, some music). And a month or so later, I bring out my hard drive to check my photos. And who'd know, they're no where to be found. I thought I had backed them up to one of my hard drives. Apparently not. So that meant that all my India photos not posted online are now gone. So came a whole new sense of dissapointment and feelings of upset. It happens, sure. But that one just hit me suddenly cause the India trip was something you'd do once in your life. Either that or it was the only time I'd be doing it with my classmates.

And that got me onto the topic that years ago we used to wait for our photographs to be developed before we knew what they looked like. Nowdays, with digital cameras, you instantly see the photo taken 5 seconds ago. And if it's not nice, you can delete and take it again. There's also the danger that if your card runs out of memory space, you might risk deleting a nice picture instead accidentally. But the point was that I felt it was more fun to send the photos to be developed and wait to see how they turned out. These days since everything is electronic, its almost instantaneous. No more photo developing, no more waiting to see how it turned out. When was the last time you developed a photo? I recall mine being the last week of school when I was rushing to finish my final NCT CA so I could get on with the photos for DMC05 to take home on the last day.

But that's not the real thing, the real thing being taking pictures with a camera with a roll of film inserted inside and not knowing whether they came out blurry or overexposed (when you pulled the film out). That seems eons ago. So long ago that I can't seem to remember the last time I did that. Probably 2003? That's when we got our video camera that came with a still picture function. And in 2005 we got our current 5.1 megapixel SLR-look-alike. So about 5 years ago? Whoosh. What a long time that is! I really think those were fun days though, where your skill could really show perhaps? Regina, one day we need to hang out and use your polaroid camera to take pictures and put them in a montage like the picture at the top and take a digital photo of that.

Polaroids seem really classic somehow. If I'm not wrong, they are no longer produced? I hope that film roll-based cameras never stop being produced. In Zhili's words, "I sound old" when I think that one day those types of cameras will become part of museum exhibits on photography. And that day won't be too far away.

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