Digital Cameras

So I've been sitting at this computer for ten minutes now, staring at it, trying to think of something to say. I don't have anything to say really. I looked in our digital photo album, thought maybe I could upload a recent photo. Nothing much there. I even considered digging back to see what was the very first photo we ever took with a digital camera. I found it. We took it on December 31, 1999. But it's just a picture of Natalie digging through some cabinets in our house. She was eleven months old.

I guess, though, since I have nothing to write about, I COULD go ahead and write about that picture. It's interesting that this December 31 will have been ten years since we went digital. We're on our fourth digital camera now, and the difference between it and the first one we had is pretty phenomenal. I remember how proud I was of our digital camera in 1999 because it was a 1,000 pixel camera, a "megapixel" camera! Today's cheapest cameras are 3 or 4 megapixels in size, and if you click on the photo above you'll see what a single megapixel shot looks like. That's not a reduced size photo. That's as big as that picture gets.

But getting back to my point, it's been a decade since we've purchased film, a decade since we've had to drop photos off and get them developed, a decade since we had to wait for more than a second or two to see what the photos looke like, a decade since we've had to worry about how many pictures we were taking. I just looked, and in the almost ten years we've taken photos digitally, we have taken 9,808 photos. And that's just the ones we've kept! There are no telling how many we've deleted. We've also recorded almost 60 hours of video, and I've written lots of poems and blog entries and journal logs about my children.

Our children's lives are well documented.