[META] On the averted photo drought
Jul. 27th, 2009 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldYesterday morning before church I managed to lose my digital camera at a quite pleasant WiFi-enabled coffee shop. (I'm typing this while I'm here, actually while I'm sitting down in the same seat that I was in when last I had my camera.) I'm not looking forward to the expenditures necessary for the camera, but I've had a couple of offers from friends to let me borrow their cameras in the interim. Don't worry: I still have more than enough photos, on my Flickr page and on my laptop, to support the morning and weekend photo posts for a long while.
It's only now that I've really gotten what Nan Goldin meant when she said that her camera was an extension of her, her portable recording and storage device. Sitting here, even without wanting to use the camera--without even wanting to use the webcam!--I feel awkward, like I'm forgotting something. (Would that I'd remembered that before I left here yesterday.) Camera aside, I'm as peeved with the 88 photos I'd failed to download before I lost it. I know that I'll be able to restage the most important photos, and I think that I can restage most of them. There are things, like flowers blooming, that will be lost, or at least will be until next year, but I think I'm fine with that. Last Saturday evening, I was walking home at around 8 o'clock, and the dimming of the increasingly red-shifted light through the post-rain haze was beautiful, and even without a camera I enjoyed it. I'm just a bit sad that I couldn't share that moment, and won't be able to share other moments, with you.
It's only now that I've really gotten what Nan Goldin meant when she said that her camera was an extension of her, her portable recording and storage device. Sitting here, even without wanting to use the camera--without even wanting to use the webcam!--I feel awkward, like I'm forgotting something. (Would that I'd remembered that before I left here yesterday.) Camera aside, I'm as peeved with the 88 photos I'd failed to download before I lost it. I know that I'll be able to restage the most important photos, and I think that I can restage most of them. There are things, like flowers blooming, that will be lost, or at least will be until next year, but I think I'm fine with that. Last Saturday evening, I was walking home at around 8 o'clock, and the dimming of the increasingly red-shifted light through the post-rain haze was beautiful, and even without a camera I enjoyed it. I'm just a bit sad that I couldn't share that moment, and won't be able to share other moments, with you.
