What do you take too many pictures of?
What do you take too many pictures of?
Documenting my obsessions
Hi Watchers!
Is there anything you can’t stop yourself from taking pictures of?
I’m old enough to remember a time when taking pictures had to be a deliberate act. First, you had to own a camera. Second, you needed to remember the camera. And third, you had a limited amount of film, so each click had to matter.
Now, we all carry cameras in our pockets. I love to take pictures. But if a future anthropologist were to examine the pictures I’ve taken with my phone, they would need a theory to explain why I take so many pictures of reflections. I have hundreds upon hundreds of reflection pictures—everything from rivers and lakes to puddles and pools.
How about you? What do you take too many pictures of? Reply to this email or leave a comment!
Cheers,
Jason
P.S. Thank you for all of your comments about winter! I love learning more about the places you live and seeing what makes us different and the same.
Another fan of water pics (see what I did there? which is, in part, a lie bc I seriously dislike the type of water pic used to rinse one’s mouth). Photos of surf and beaches and rugged cliffs and shoreline mitigate the drought encrusted world of the desert southwest I orbit for 9 months of the year. 🌵
I take a bazillion pictures of interesting patterns in nature: anything from lichens to tree bark to wood grain on telephone poles to bird poop. Then I go home and find shapes or faces in them to doodle in my sketchbook. My weird daily image safari makes my family scratch their heads...