Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Life is Flickring before my eyes

You name it an Flickr has it. At least it seems that way. I didn't try looking for anything that might be considered pornographic or obscene, but there were tons of images for everything I tried. I looked at book-related themes such as people reading and cats reading. Then I moved on to some of my own personal interests such as polymer clay, marbled paper, fractals, and kaleidoscopes. If I am ever out of ideas for stuff to make all I need to do is go to Flickr for inspiration.

Thing 3 has made me realize how much photography has changed with the advent of digital cameras and cell phones. As with everything there is the good with the bad. The good being the sharing of images - family, creative, historical. The bad being the reduction of privacy and clogging up the Internet with junk.

Digital photography has been a boon for me. Before digital cameras I became known as the "Headhunter" because I was always chopping off the heads of my subjects in photographs. I wasted a lot of film (and money) taking bad pictures. Digital cameras allow me to see my work right away and allows for "do overs."

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