Well.. this is my first attempt at "blogging". I think I'm way behind the times.. now everyone is twittering. For those of you who don't know me, I'm a photographer. I freelance in South Florida. The purpose of this blog is to help to answer questions about your camera and about taking photos. Everyone has a digital camera these days, we even have one in our phones. Images are being recorded all the time, everywhere. Sometimes even when we are unaware that we are , ourselves, the subject of the photograph. And this "media", no longer being referred to as "film", yes media can be transported quickly all over the globe. Its daunting when you think about it. I can take a photo of a butterfly and send it to my friend in Costa Rica, from where the butterfly eggs came from, in seconds.. or maybe minutes since dial-up is still the main connection type.
The other point to take into consideration is that these images don't go away. When you are in college and you go to spring break and you bear it all on video, this gets put on the internet and more than likely, someone is going to save it to their computer. Someday, after you have long forgotten the daring days of your youth, these images can resurface someway some how. Middle school kids are taking provocative photos of themselves and sending them to someone they think they can trust, without taking into consideration that their lives are just beginning. Some kids are being charged with Child Pornography and are now registered Pedophiles. It gets serious fast.
Photographic images are viewed as the truth because they are a snap shot of a moment in time. They are used as evidence of the truth. But now they can easily be altered.