1. You can see the picture right away
2. You can store of these great images right there on your camera
The hazards however:
1. If you are like me, seeing the pictures right away, means that I never develop any of them--ever. Cheap-o lame mom!
2. if you don't download images to your computer you can quickly erase them in a crunch without thinking about it.
The pictures of Stella's birthday party would fall under the hazardous cautionary tale category.
Pictures of Her beautiful butterfly winged friends, butterfly cake, and butterfly art project are all gone, gone and gone forever. The fleeting moment of childhood meant to be memorexed and frozen through photograph was erased in a moment of sudden urgency. Roland Barthes posited that photographs are in effect ghosts because the referent they capture is already gone, already not three, already moved on. Well, Barthes, how I wish I had those ghosts still around to remind me.
What was worth replacing these priceless stills of stella's three year oldness?
Stupid pictures of the break-in at the 4-plex. Stupid thief. stupid me for erasing them. Poor Stella. It was such a lovely party.
As a piece offering from such a short mother, I offer this song written by Paul McCartney to his little Stella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wpr2IEjVSg
2 comments:
Sorry you lost those pictures. Stupid thief!
I don't like how I take a gazillion pictures and have a hard time sorting through them. There are too many!
my heart aches for you in this time of loss.
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