If you have kids and are like me you take lots of photos of them (my flickr account has more than 14,000 photos – most of them of Ethan and Erin). The dirty little secret is that the photos you see are the best ones. Today we snap LOTS of photos since there is not cost to do so. Sometimes we even edit them because the software is so cheap and easy to use. Of course this was not always the case.
For example, when I was a kiddo you didn’t take multiple shots of the same scene. You snapped a photo, hoped for the best and got it developed weeks later. Sometimes the picture was good, but mostly they were bad. Snapshots of the past are honest – true representations of what we looked like. I would argue snapshots of today are glamor shots in comparison.
Jennifer scanned a bunch of photos my mom gave me and I posted them to my Facebook account. Some are good, but most are a little rough – that is reality. The pictures of our kids are a filtered version of reality – something less than real. I am not sure this matters and I am not suggesting we do anything about it – just making an observation.
