The topic of today\u2019s post is my most prized possession, and for me, it\u2019s my camera. I struggled with this idea for most of the day. I knew I wanted to reject going with something pithy or ironic. I cherish my wife, cherish our house, cherish memories of past vacations, cherish the small bag of M&Ms sitting next to me. But I wanted to address this subject without being clever. Wanted to find something to write about that is just an object, a tangible, physical object that I treasure<\/p>\n
But I realized that I really don\u2019t hold my possessions that dearly. Indeed, I\u2019ve been trying to get rid of things for a while now. I love to read, I read all the time, but I can\u2019t stand having books overflowing a bookcase. I don\u2019t need to own a ton of esoteric DVDs. I\u2019m a nerd, into nerd things, but nerds love stuff too much, doodads and figurines and all matter of effluvia. I can\u2019t stand it.<\/p>\n
Give me four plain walls and something to sit on, and I\u2019m happy. And my camera. (My hard drive, on the other hand, is nearly over-full; apparently my disdain for stuff doesn\u2019t apply to the digital. I was very much born into the correct place in history\u2014I keep I create on my computer. I\u2019m a regular e-hoarder.)<\/p>\n
I take pictures, load \u2018them up to the hard drive, and then delete them off the camera\u2019s memory card so I can go take more. I\u2019ve only been doing this for a few years now, but I am finding it hard to imagine not doing it. The camera bag goes with me everywhere. Even to the grocery store. Sure, it stays in the car, but I know it\u2019s there, just in case I come outside with two loaves of bread and see an amazing sky.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>I can give you a history of where I\u2019ve gone with my camera, but that\u2019s not the point. It\u2019s not for making memories. It\u2019s not for capturing something I\u2019ve seen. It\u2019s for creating. I\u2019m a function follows form kind of guy. That aforementioned tappity-tap? It leads to stories. The stories aren\u2019t there to be told, and the tappity-tap an artifact of the telling. It\u2019s the other way around. There\u2019s music in the tapping, and that music creates its own story. And with the photos, a field of flowers doesn\u2019t say anything. But if I can get it at the right angle, and push the right buttons in Photoshop, I can discover something that\u2019s never been seen before.<\/p>\n