Years ago, you had to carry a camera and take a picture on film. While looking through the lens, you had to make a judgment call on whether it was film worthy or not because film and developing was expensive. Then you had to finish the roll, take it in for processing and wait to see what your picture looked like when they were ready. My how times have changed.
While small digital cameras became the vogue in the late 1990s, they were soon replaced with the cameras on cell phones that everyone started carrying. These cameras, although small, are actually quite good optically and in addition have tremendous computing power to assist them from the cell phone’s processing power.
In 2018, a friend and amazing photographer, Linda and I challenged each other with a year’s worth of shared photos. We created a private group, 376 Day Photo Challenge on Facebook to post our photos and share them with friends. The 376 days came from the added days between our birth dates and also made our Group name unique.
While I don’t plan on using Facebook much in the future, I may occasionally post a photo in the Facebook Friends & Photos private group that we created. But this blog is where I will still share my own pictures with searchable tags like ‘photo’ and others indicative of the subject. I can also write a little bit more about a photo’s backstory. For example here is an interesting one entitled Lincoln’s Lap from my budding years as a photographer.