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I love to document my life through photos. You can call me somewhat of a photo maniac when it comes to taking photos and knowing the latest and greatest inventions out there on photography.
I think my love for photography started in high school when I took a small photography class at the local library. Sure I played around with cameras and taking photographs, but this class really taught me how to capture the elements of life in a photograph. It showed me how to use light and angles to get the best picture possible and really document that event or moment in the photo.
Even though I love to take photographs, one of the things that I have not taken advantage of if the ability to take digital photos. There is just something about the impersonal nature of digital photos. They come across as pixely and just as computer like. I don’t like them at all.
Sadly, I am feeling the pressure to switch to digital photography. My recent experience regarding photography revolved around me having to wait seven days to get my film developed because I couldn’t find a photo processing place close enough to me that would develop film. In fact, I had to turn to the Canada 411 to help me find a photo processing center that would process film.
This makes me sad as film seems to be a dying art when it comes to picture taking. I will never understand the obsession with digital cameras and will fight tooth and nail to not make the switch to digital. In fact, I will learn how to process my own film and build my own darkroom if I have to. I will not succumb to the pressure to make the switch to digital pictures.
