August 25, 2009

This is what I get

Why did I ever switch to a digital camera? I've spent most of the day toning and resizing photos from my recent trip to Bali, and, while I've had fun looking at the images, I've started to miss film a bit. I miss running to Wal-greens the instant I return from a vacation. I miss the thrill of opening the envelopes, waiting to see what turned out. Most of all, I miss letting someone else do the work. In an hour. Four hours later, I'm barely halfway through my Bali pictures.

Is it any wonder I still have pictures from China that I took last October sitting in iPhoto? Not to mention pictures from trips to Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. Maybe the problem isn't that I started using a digital camera. Maybe the problem is that I travel too damn much. If I stayed home more often, I certainly wouldn't have this problem!

But the upside to putting photos online: Flickr stats. I've developed something of an addiction this afternoon. I like seeing how many visitors I've gotten, what photos they've looked at (so far, the two most popular are one of a sunrise at Mt. Batur and one of a salad), what sites sent them to me.

I'd like to take a moment to thank the readers of hair-removal-cream-hairremovalcream.blogspot.com and usabestloans.com for leaving such riveting reading material to glance at my humble vacation photos.

I think.

I'll share actual photos in this spot soon. In the meantime, take a look at my Flickr stream to see them.

3 comments:

  1. My husband is on Flickr, too, and he is also a little addicted to seeing how many hits he gets on his pics! :o)

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  2. I think the problem is now that we all have digital cameras we take too many pictures. With film you have 24 pictures and you make them count. On a digital camera you have as many as fit on your card. It makes a world of difference....maybe if you wouldn't have taken 20 pictures of the sunrise you wouldn't have spent so much time working on them!

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  3. I dunno... I came back from Kenya with, like, 14 rolls of film and 50 pictures of zebras.

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