Photography sure has changed - well - the equipment and 'processing' certainly have.

My poor old 35mm slr Pentax and Fuji cameras don't get used much any more. I still use them occaisionally - usually when the batteries have run down on the digital. The new Kodak digital camera has pretty much relegated the 35mm cameras to the museum.

Photography is a great way to record people, places and events. A photogtaph can evoke feelings and memories long forgotten. Whole epidoes come flashing back after browsing through an old photo album.

Now I tend to print only some of the photos (this is sometimes a very good thing) but for some reason they don't seem to end up in albums - the physical sort anyway. The digital photos are in a digital album that I keep on my computer. Somehow, sitting around the computer screen looking at the pictures isn't quite the same. Getting your developed film back, opening the envelope and going though the pictures was actually a lot of fun - I miss that.

Photo editing software lets you alter your photos in all sorts of ways, really easily. This can be great fun although I seem to spen a lot of time playing with the various options and then just print the photo as it was to begin with.

The elements of good photography or photojournalism are still the same. A crappy digital photograph can be easlily altered but odds are it will still be a crappy photograph. At least with the digital it's easy to see and get rid of the crappy ones right away and not waste time and energy processing them.

Ah well.

Have fun with that new digital camera!