#89: pixels, millions of 'em

Everyone and their mother now has a digital camera. If not a camera, then mobile phones that are almost just as capable. And everyone, including this perpendicular pronoun, has turned into a born-again photo enthusiast overnight.

There is an overload of digital images everywhere ..... Facebook, blogger, flickr, zoomr, myspace, you name it. It is absolute chaos. But all is not so dismal: there are clear benefits too. I learned long ago that the good photographers take bad pictures too .... and perhaps in proportions similar to us amateurs. They just take more exposures and end up getting more number of decent photos from them.

Digital photography has just made that happen for everyone. The "marginal cost" of a bad photo is now zero. If I don't like it, I just delete it. There's no suspense of waiting to find out how it will turn out, and no remorse of paying to print bad exposures. Tinkering with photos is so much easier; sharing them online is a breeze.

In that spirit, I posted my personal favourite photograph last week.