Photos

I read that Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy!!  The digital age has pushed 'old fashioned' cameras to the tail end of the market.

What a shame!  How many of us have boxes or tins [the ones with pictures on the top and came filled with biscuits at Christmas] full of photos?  Oh, I do know some who actually have them in albums, all carefully titled.  One day I will find time to do this important task as how many of my children know who those old folks are? 

Photos from the past show a page in history; clothes from another century, hair styles, shoes, even the number of children in a family; all these little facts are recorded for posterity; a snapshot of how the ancestors lived.

How many of these family treasures were shot with a Brownie Box? 

Today most of us own a digital camera.  These are a wonderful invention.  No needing to take a roll of film into the chemist who sent them away to be developed.  At the designated time we returned to pick up our 'snaps' only to find several were blurry, others were blank, and out of the lot we might have three or four worth keeping.  [OK, perhaps my photography prowess was not particularly well honed; maybe the price of film and developing had something to do with it?] 

With the digital camera we can 'shoot' to our heart's content and delete those not up to scratch.  I have become slack in printing out the ones worth keeping.  That comes into the same category as failing to name photos!  Laziness?!

But the fact that the world wide known company, Kodak, is facing difficult times falls into the same category as when the draught-horse became redundant to the new-fangled tractor. 

Times, they are a changing ... sadly.