I am not against technology, just the things it is doing to us. Digital cameras are a boon in that we can snap away to our hearts content, and we can capture images we had never dreamed of and the amount of photos countless.
In the film era, we had to wait several days for the film to be developed, and then the joy at the pictures that turned out and disappointment at the ones that didn't. Or the wonderment at what was on a undeveloped roll found in a drawer. But the best, was pulling out a dust covered album, which hadn't been touched in years and the flood of memories would race in of those special moments. Or as a scientific crime fighter, the relief of looking in a court file, and finding out the photos did indeed turn out and then watching the blood drain from the states attorneys face as he handed the photos to me and would ask," did you take these photos"?and always the stock answer, no, these photos turned out.
But the plethora of images that we are drowning ourselves in, we can not tell one special moment from another. That one photo that would bring back countless memories, lost in the maze of endless photos.
Every faux pas repeatedly viewed on You Tube or TV is no longer funny or entertaining, more of an annoyance.
What brought this on you may ask? I just happened to look in the closet and found several framed photos that my partner gave me at my retirement of different times during our years together on the police department. Each and everyone brought back memories, for they are unique in that I didn't have to think who, what, where and why; I knew exactly.
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