Today’s NaBloPoMo Prompt: Tell us about some of the photos you keep on your phone.
The only photos I keep on my phone are the ones I’ve taken on my phone spontaneously, and have not bothered to move or delete. The detritus of laziness. Begs the question: what inspires me to take a photo with my phone in the first place? Something novel or unique. A surprise of some kind. If ever I anticipate that there will be photo opportunities, I take along the DSLR.
But then there are some photos that, once taken with the DSLR, I’ll transfer over to the phone. This is merely for the purpose of using Instagram. I’ll keep a handful of photos that I think I’ll want to share, and then in bored moments waiting for something, I’ll bring one of those photos into Pixlr, mess around with it, move it into Instagram, mess around with it, and the publish. Call it “filter doodling” if you like.
In this way I may be, in some respects, ignoring the whole point of Instagram. There’s no “insta-” in my use of Instagram. But if there’s one thing Jurassic park has taught us: nature finds a way.
You can see how seriously I take all of this, since I’m quoting an action adventure film from 1993
Today’s NaBloPoMo Photo Prompt: Inside
This picture was taken outside.