Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Oops, i forgot my camera.

Last week a freak snow storm happened. The flakes were pouring down like volcanic ash and floated down like bubbles to the ground, where the immediately evaporated. These snow flakes were about the size of tennis balls. THEY WERE HUGE i'm telling you. About 5 of us were in the photo department at the time, and we all decided that we should definitely document this, but none of us had a camera.

WHICH IS DEPRESSING BY THE WAY.

But anyway, we all whipped out our cell phones and started taking pictures of one another playing in the crazed snow. After i regained feeling in my fingers from the cold, i searched through my phone and started looking at all my images. Then it dawned apon me how i ALWAYS have a camera on me, because i always have my phone.





On my phone i have an extra memory card to hold images or music or whatever, resulting in my phone having a SD capacity of about 8 gb. HOLY MOTHER. that's a lot of room on a tiny 1 megapixel camera.




It turns out that i had about 5 gb worth of pictures on my phone already. And some of these babies were pretty darn interesting. I mean i think i underestimate the full epic range of composition, and formal image quality in some of these tiny pictures. FA REAL. I document with out really knowing pretty much my whole life, Kind of like Helio does. I have metaphorical rolls and rolls of "film" smashed into my camera of poorly exposed photographs that have not been respected like they should have.





So here are some images that i collect and document life everyday. As mundane as they are they hold more baggage then most images i compose with my SLR, and i think that is something to be noted.


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