Welcome to the thoughts and photos of FLYDDW. Texas, New Jersey, and Arizona living.

I read a post about photos.  I like to take photos also.  I am not an expert, nor am I an novice.  I have taken lots of photos, so I get to refine my skillz a lot.

I've used the 110, polaroid, and 35mm.  I have never used that stupid disc camera - the picture are just too grainy.  I think I shot only one roll of 35mm B&W.  I'd have to go back and looks thru the pictures.

I used to live in Houston, TX, wear 95% of my family still lives.  When I took photos, they could see them (if they cared) just by visiting or me taking the pix to them.  During that time, I visited CA, LA, San Antonio (or SA to keep with the 'A' places), where I took photos.  BUT, I returned to Houston.

For a while, I lived in Austin, TX - my college years.  Now, my photos were 180 miles from my family, and that prevented them from being seen.  Now, I have to mail copies to them, or make sure to bring them when I visited.

This was partially solved by the internet and web pages.  Now, I could scan in the photos, post them on the web, and send a link to their email.  Scanning was time consuming, but worth it.  Now I could do editing - cropping, color correction, etc.

Then came my digital phase.  A digital camera is fantastic!  Take a picture, see it immediately.  You know exactly what you are getting.  My first camera was low-def (although quite expensive).  1024x768 was it's max (1.2 MP), and they ran about 70-120kbytes per picture.  Now cellphone blow that away!

But, due to their size, Not much cropping was needed - take the picture, post it on the web.  The camera I have NOW is an 8MP one.  These pix are 3000 kbytes!  Nobody is gonna wait on a dial-up connection for bunches of these to come down!

The 8MP has advantages
- you can crop the hell out of them!  See something interesting in the corner?  crop that part out and blow it up!
- by reducing the picture to smaller size, you can sometime remove blurriness.
Disadvantages?
- too big as size of storage.  Can't fill a webpage with 3200x2800 pictures.  Nobody has that big of screen to see the whole thing.
- a bitch to edit - what to save?  what to throw away? 
- takes up so much room on the mem card.