Photo Album ...

     I recently went to one of my friend’s place and happen to see hard copies of some of their Photo albums. It was so nice to flip over the album and see the faces of people. It brings fond memories of the past and it was fun to see people when they were young. I was just wondering with the advent of digital cameras we have the extravagance to take hundreds of photos but do we really go back and see them? Digital cameras are so inexpensive these days that every household has one or two cameras. With the memory we have we tend to take hundreds of clicks and then store it in a folder which is then secured in a hard drive. But the key thing is we seldom open the folder.

     On the other hand those old days where we used cameras based on rolls every click we are so careful since we can afford to take only 36 pictures in a roll. It takes lot of effort to go to the studio, print it and then assort it in an album. Albums also needs to be maintained since there is a good chance it may get spoilt upon time. Albums also consume storage space. But the best thing is we tend to see more often than soft copies. The joy of seeing a hard cover album cannot be matched with seeing soft copies of photos.

    As time rolls on Technology replaces some of the time consuming tasks we used to do earlier. If everyone around you follow the latest trend you have no choice at times other than to follow the trend. If someone disrupts the pattern and goes back to the old way of doing things suddenly it becomes hot news which once upon a time was quite normal.