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Changing habits

Owning a digital camera has fundamentally changed the way I take pictures. When shooting on film, I used to be pretty judicious, taking photos I expected would be good, and then finding out only days or weeks later after getting the prints how things turned out.

Now I just fire away, sometimes randomly, and delete photos I don't like on the fly. But I keep a lot too, and only print out (or get printed at a photo store) a very few. From yesterday alone I have 48 pictures and three little movies on my camera's memory card, and that doesn't include the ones I erased just after taking them. Not a single one has made it to paper yet.

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