Photography

No. While there actually isn’t much to photograph around here aside from trees, a church, and the sky, I will never get tired of the sky. I love the sky. I especially love clouds. I love looking at clouds. I love everything about the sky. Do you not? Are you not in awe every time you see clouds or weather or a sunset or a sunrise or the moon or stars or that owl that keeps screaming every evening and you have only so far seen its wing flying by? The sky is full of air for breathing, does that not excite you? Are you dead inside?

In case you were wondering, people in Europe look straight at the sun during solar eclipses, too.

I hate phones. Smart phones, doubly so. 90% of my current phone use is using the camera to take photos of my pets or landscapes while out on dog walks. I hate having to use my phone. It’s too big (I’m small). It’s awkward to hold. It’s a pain in the ass to take out either my bag or the pocket it is inevitably stretching out with it’s bigness, unlock, and use. Fuck it. Fuck a phone. Hate them.

I also have no real need for 4000+ pixel photos. I’m not going to print them into a billboard. And at some point we reach the same issue we had with switching TVs to high definition where we are seeing people’s pores and individual hairs and unless you are photographing very specific shit, you just don’t want that. In fact, now we add filters to smooth out and color adjust to compensate for the higher definition and that’s just fucking silly. I just want to look at fun little photos.

So if you are like “hey why are many of your photos so shitty”, they are shitty on purpose! I’ve started using little toy cameras. I love blur. I love noise. I love fucked up lighting. I have a Kodak Charmera, but also have another little off brand with a tiny little flip screen to take selfies, and a mid-sized kids camera that adds little stickers.

I used to know someone who couldn’t watch TV if it wasn’t at the highest of resolution and quality. I am lucky I have never had this problem. I actually have pretty severe visual snow, so real life looks like a bad TV signal to me anyway. I will sometimes add noise to photos, just because I want everyone to see what I see.

I will adjust some of the colors in photoshop afterward of some photos, but nothing major, and more than most are just straight off the camera. I don’t know how these work for people who don’t have tiny hands like me. You could maybe break it with your normal sized hand strength. But not me. Tiny person, tiny camera, tiny photos.

I do still use the camera on my phone (mostly just pet photos so I can then send the pet photos to a friend, so many pet photos, tens of thousands..). But the toy cameras are really fun and I like the option.