Picture-taking

I've been thinking about pictures.  Each time I go on some outing, and take a ton of pictures (read, about 80), I think back.  When I was 12, I took 24 pictures in an entire week at camp.  My first year of college, I took 24 pictures.  (Granted, I got digital pictures from friends' cameras.)  In part, it was because my camera was a bit unwieldy to carry around,

and by the time I got the lighting set and the image focused, whoever was getting their picture taken was getting antsy.  And in part, it was because I didn't want to deal with having my film developed.

I bought my digital camera in 2004.  Since then, I've taken almost 4700 pictures.  That's close to 700 a year.  And then I have pictures I've collected from other people's cameras.  I have a lot of pictures to document the last 7 years of my life.  And then I think about what will actually be worth looking at again.  What, 20 years from now, will I actually look back at?  I'm getting better at deleting bad pictures, or even a good picture, when I took 3 of the same thing, and picked my favorite.  I don't want to have tons of pictures I never look at.  I'd rather have a few choice ones.

And, since I can't really talk about taking pictures without posting some, here are some favorites (without people in them) that I've taken over the past 7 years.

And then there was one

I found some lovely glass drinking glasses at a thrift store a number of years ago.  I bought as many as I could find that matched--7.  And they were great.  (I have problems with cheap plastic glasses--I can't stand the way they feel against my mouth.)

When I moved across the country for grad school, one broke in transit.  When David came to visit me, he broke one.  The next time David came to visit me, I broke one.  After we got married, I broke one.  Then David broke one.  Then, a few weeks ago, I broke another.  Now, there is just one lone glass.