Send Nudes?

”Look at this photograph. Every time I do it makes me laugh.” For once, I can relate to a Nickelback song. This year, one of the New Year’s Resolutions a friend and I made is to take more photos. Considering it was a New Year’s Resolution, you already know I have only taken about three and a half new photos since January. We looked through our camera rolls and saw mostly memes and pictures of dogs. While those are great, we felt like we had so many missed opportunities having not taken photos of our friends or during anything fun we had done. These next few years are our glory days, after all, and there are only so many memories our brains can hold. And technology will probably not advance far enough for me to telepathically transfer those memories to my children when they ask me what my childhood was like. I know I wish there was something more than a few black and white photos left from my parents’ lives in the Eastern Bloc.

Looking at an old photo may not tell you everything about the situation or the event it captures. But even the “knowledge at bargain pric[e]” it provides is better than forgetting everything. I’ll take bargain brand toilet paper over no toilet paper at all. Susan’s Sontag argument seems very ignorant. It’s limited to those people that hate on concert videos, claiming people should “live in the moment.” And I agree, those vidoes are really annoying to watch. However, for one thing, I do not see how recording a video someone prevents the person from experiencing the concert. But anyway, the issue behind that becomes more of a social media problem. Photography does not deserve to be torn down because of social media; there is so much more to it than that.