Sometime around 2012 the ubiquity of smartphones produced a sentiment: "oh you took that on a smartphone". The comment betrayed a distain for the often poor quality and shear quantity of photos now being taken, uploaded, and shared.
This blog greatly benefited from me having a camera in my pocket. Much of the content here from 2013 onward came from a smartphone camera; but until recently not all.
An overseas traveler in 2007 often connected to a slow internet connection, and wrote a group email to family and friends. The world of 22 years ago is not one Traveling Man Joe longs for. It was disconnected and frankly far more expensive. Connecting with overseas family and friends meant buying phone cards. The free, live, real-time video calls of today were a sci-fi dream.
But, that is why I've been taking the camera out less and less. If only to try and still capture and share only the that which still catches me with~by surprise.
