Mike's point of view's photostream

A generation of budding photographers can never appreciate the patience of waiting until the roll of film was finally used up, remembering on a future trip to the drug store days, weeks or months later, to take the film and drop it at the counter to be developed. Then waiting days more for your finished pictures.

The anxiety and responsibility of not wasting an exposure when there were far more moments still to capture than unused shots left on the camera.

When those pictures finally arrived and you picked them up from the store, part of the thrill was that drug free flashback, triggered memories of frozen moments in captured time. Some (many) of the prints, less than the quality you hoped for when snapping them. Blurred finger blocked subjects, over and under exposed shots, but if you were lucky you ended up with a few gems worthy of placement on the refrigerator or into an album.

Today we click away without cause or concern but with freedom to experiment, be more imaginative and daring. That alone has allowed many to become photography legends in our own minds with the powers to showcase the digital manifestations of our creative eye well beyond range of the refrigerator door.