Caught On Camera

Me and my friend were browsing on some old pictures of ourselves. From childhood to adulthood, how our physical lives have changed over the years have been recorded and made us view life in a different perspective. These old photographs of family and friends are priceless. The most treasured are those of my boy when he was growing up, it was like his own biography shown on images. However, a few of those photographs may embarrass him such as the famous bearskin rug, bathing in the tub, and dumping on the potty trainer with a mouth pacifier while going over the pages of the comics. It is those memories of impulsive acts caught on camera and laid out in prints. Not only in our personal lives, but those in the worldwide community and our history as human beings. Photographs somehow resemble the past, present and perhaps in the future.

Every member of my family is a photographer. In the house, our family has had cameras as long as I can recall. We even had set aside pictures as old as our great grandparents. I was exceptionally camera shy (still am), and it seems that everyone was up to the challenge of getting a picture of me when I was older and could go into hiding. Nevertheless, they exist and now I am glad they took them. In the 1960's, the Polaroid was born and each one had it in high school.

The basic principles and optics have been around since the 4th and 5th centuries and were described by Chinese and Greek philosophers. Hailed from the Greek words, 'photos' (light) and 'graphein' (to draw), photography means the process of recorded light images being illustrated into something tangible. Photography has evolved through hundreds of years, unfolding its mystery of transferring an image onto something tangible. The chronicle is long and complex, altering with each creator and further learning.

One of its children, born in 1876, fathered by Hamilton Smith was a medium using a thin sheet of iron. They were called tintypes and these plates are plenty and still exists at present times, particularly images depicting histories of our past. Next was George Eastman. In 1889, he invented film that was flexible, unbreakable and could be rolled (bet you didn't know film was that old), and changed the way pictures were taken and recorded forever. In 1935, Kodachrome tagged along and in the 1940's, the business for color film began.

Further ahead to the present, through technology, photography and cameras have evolved into any form you can think of. Accessible in the market are camcorders, cell phones with cameras, and cameras for the internet - several so minuscule they fit in the palm of your hand. In spite of these advanced gadgets attached to the camera which I have, I still enjoy using my camera without the frills.

I carry my camera with me wherever I go. I would sometimes miss taking a picture of treasured moments like an odd sundown on the water, or something comical, or friends leisurely having a get-together. I take very good care of my camera. My camera has a jacket, so when I don't use it, he stays inside the jacket. My other accessories such as lenses, flashes, extra film and batteries which are kept charged always, are put in a different bag. Therefore, at present, I am all set to seize those extraordinary times on film, wherever I go. Are you?

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