Yesterday I came back from a Trip from to Paris. And like on every trip I go I took my camera with me. And it seems with every trip I am taking more and more pictures.
The ubiquitous availability of digital cameras, big and cheap memory cards and rechargeable batteries allow us to take endless pictures. Taking a digital picture is virtually free. The marginal price for taking another picture consists merely of a fraction of the price for the power you need for charging your battery; and since you have a power outlet in any decent hotel or youth hostel, the marginal cost is really zero.
So if taking digital pictures is free, why shouldn't I take as many as I could? That is what most tourist seem to think nowadays. Every time there were many tourists taking picture of something, I just felt the urge to take pictures too. Well, that is snapshots. Snapshots are pictures that are taken out of the urge to take pictures, with no composition or thought about the motive. Snapshots are all right for your memories, but they all look the same.
And even though shooting digital pictures might cost no money, it consumes some of your precious traveling time. Sometimes seeing, absorbing and understanding your environment makes more sense than a picture. Or like Kevin Spacey says in a commerci al: "Point-and-shoot? That's a crime."
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