Thursday, February 10, 2022

Staring at a screen in the bitter cold

Reviewing my work in the field
London, ON
February 2022
This photo originally shared on Instagram


Once upon a time, we took pictures and held our breath for hours and days and weeks in the hope that they came out.

Because there were no screens on the backs of our cameras. Only doors that, if you opened them at the wrong time, would turn your carefully captured moments into optical mush.

Once upon a time, we couldn't stand in the middle of nowhere and review our work in real-time, edit it as if we were in a darkroom, or share our work with the world.

Once upon a time we didn't have cameras built into phones that slipped in and out of our pockets that would have outshot those once-state-of-the-art cameras we coveted on the shelves of a department store or the glossy pages of a catalog.

Once upon a time we shopped at department stores and in catalogs.

Once upon a time we wondered about a future filled with science-fiction-like technologies that erased distances and opened up possibilities.

Sunday afternoon, I stood on the side of a frozen suburban street and lived it.

Wonder lives all around us. We owe it to ourselves to appreciate what we have, and how far we've come.

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