Saturday, January 5, 2008

Drunken Photography

I took my newish digital camera to Dave and Snark's New Year's Eve Ham Feed, got drunk, and took a lot of pictures. Beside the usual snaps of folks partying I took art pictures and insisted on showing them on the 2.5" LCD to anyone who would look. "Look at that, that's a beautiful picture," I'd say, proudly showing off the macro shot of the chrome plated towel rack I'd just taken in the bathroom. Reactions were polite at best. Turns out that at least a couple were beautiful (not the towel rack, though). But in sober retrospect I can see that it might be obnoxious to have some drunken artist insist on you looking at his obscure photos on a tiny display just seconds after he snapped them.

I am in love with digital photography because it gives me what I could never afford in 35mm: unlimited film.

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