A Sampler (II)

Nowadays, due to the prevalence of digital cameras, pictures have become ‘expendable’. People take a large number of photos and upload them onto their preferred social networking site to share with family and friends. There’s a large amount of activity about the images for a few days, and then it ultimately peters out.

After a while, cards get formatted, new pictures are taken and old image files are erased. And if one didn’t archive the pictures properly on separate storage media, then all that’s left are the compressed (often poorly) versions of the pictures that have been uploaded to the web. It’s a shame if these distorted and pixelated images are all that remain of your prized memories.

I would like to make a case for a more deliberate attempt at preserving a select moment in your life, so you can have something tangible and enduring to remind you of that very time. Moreover, there should be no need for an ‘occasion’ to make pictures because life is a string of occasions, and I believe each one should be celebrated.

Allow me to elaborate with a few examples:

Let’s say you just finished working on your thesis and you would like a ‘parting shot’ of the hole lab you’ve been living in for the last few months. And let’s say we tweak the ambience a bit, so it doesn’t quite remind you of the place where you nearly lost your marbles repeating the same set of experiments over and over.

There are more examples after the jump.

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What if you got a mohawk? … Well, this one speaks for itself. :-)#

It is quite common for people to have a portrait of them made to commemorate reaching a certain age, but how about if we took that a step further? Let’s shoot something with a more classic appeal to it that should stand the passage of time. And while we’re at it, why don’t we do a B&W conversion of that shot and have it printed large for you to keep and show to your future generations.

More non-occasions to come …