It's Weird Really…

I never cared about photography. The first camera I ever recall seeing was an old Polaroid my grandad had probably some time in the early 80's. I was immediately intrigued as to how that little box was able to create an image without having to take the film to be developed, just click and wait. To me that was pure magic.

From that memory though, I don't have many others that caused me to take notice of cameras or photography in general, I mean sure, there were holiday snaps and birthday parties with embarrassing haircuts, but I was and still am a proud nerd, so my childhood in part was all about computers and so when photography entered the digital age, that's when it captured my attention again.

On one of my snowboarding trips to Alberta, Canada, one of my friends brought with him his small silver digital camera. I, as always, picked up a couple of the obligatory 35mm disposable film cameras and went on my way. It was seeing his images on that small crappy screen that got me. I didn't have that, I wouldn't know what my images would look like until I got them developed and therefore didn't know if I'd even got the shot. On top of that, I had 36 exposures per roll of film and I was done. That little silver beast of his could take hundreds all of which were stored on a memory card which he could just dump in his computer when he got home.

I needed digital.

Now I know what you're going to say. Something along the lines of 'People have shot on film for years and never had screens or memory cards and never had a problem' or 'A good photographer can make good image on any camera' close,right? And I completely agree, but I wasn't a photographer yet and seeing that little silver camera perform in the way it did made me want to learn more, it made me want to know more about photography and capturing those moments and so I learned.