My father lent me his Canon A-1 camera when I was in high school for my photography class (because I needed to use an SLR camera). Shortly after he bought himself a brand new Canon Rebel and the A-1, which was older than me, became mine forever and ever.

I have a modest camera collection (six different types all in working condition) that was slowly built up over the years, but I've nearly stopped taking pictures. When I was little I would take pictures of anything that struck my fancy with my little disc camera. My mother would get them developed, but when she saw my pictures of cats and flowers she would tell me that I was wasting film. Matt told me the same thing while he was watching me taking pictures of dolphins. They were so close, if their trainer wasn't there I would have leaned over and tried to touch them. He thinks I should have used the digital camera instead.

When I saw the wedding photographer's digital SLR camera, I sighed with envy and made a mental note on my list of things I want to buy if I ever have more money than I know what to do with. But if I ever did have that much money, I'd probably spend it on (after buying a house and a new car) a blackroom, equipment, paper, and film. Digital is amazing given the right hardware and software, but my first love has always been with film.

I feel strange writing about images in a journal that is almost devoid of them. A while back I considered posting digital pictures here, but decided against it. The best way I can explain it is that I don't think I have anything significant to share online visually.