The dangers of digital cameras
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Studies have linked digital cameras to clogged hard drives. It’s a known fact that owning a digital camera enables you to make a fool of yourself in ways you never thought possible. And older models of digital cameras could suck the money out of your pockets by requiring obscure and expensive batteries.
Having found myself with a clogged harddrive, I decided to do the sensible thing and start deleting some of my crappier photos. Along the way I noticed a disturbing trend: self-portraits. Lots and lots of self-portraits. Only .5% of them are actually good self-portraits. Most of them either blurry, poorly-lit, taken at a horrific angle, or I had some stupid expression that made me look ill.
What was I thinking?!
Why did I think I needed to take 439,832 pictures of myself? Do I have some kind of deep-seated security issues that can only be satiated by taking self-portraits? Why did I ever think these horrible photos merited anything but immediate deletion? Did I actually think I looked good posing like that? And who did I think would even want to see these?!
There are a few that I’m not embarrassed to admit exist, and this is one of them:
I still don’t know what I was thinking with that one.