The epitome of point and shoot

I haven't blogged for many months but I was inspired today.

Check this out. I haven't lusted over a camera for quite a long time. I love the features this doesn't have. There is no viewfinder and no display. Just like old times!

A Holga camera is a sort of toy camera that shoots 120 film, but the camera is manufactured so cheaply that each one will have "flaws" that give the photos a certain artistic quality that people love. A digital version of this is so cool.

I'm going to try to post more soon. I have some fun stuff.

Found here.

Taking bad pictures

"It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again."
--Diane Arbus

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Photography is easy, and hard

From Paul Graham:

It's simply a way of recording what you see -- point the camera at it, and press a button. How hard is that? And what's more, in this digital age, its free -- doesn't even cost you the price of film. It's so simple and basic, it's ridiculous.

And...

It's so difficult because it's everywhere, every place, all the time, even right now. It's the view of this pen in my hand as I write this, it's an image of your hands holding this book, Drift your consciousness up and out of this text and see: it's right there, across the room -- there... and there. Then it's gone. You didn't photograph it, because you didn't think it was worth it. And now it's too late, that moment has evaporated.

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