New Camera

My old camera finally gave up the ghost after seven years or so—one of those early digital compacts with maybe two megapixels if you squinted at it. Dead. Gone. I mean, I’d been carrying it around knowing it was on borrowed time, but when it actually stopped working I realized how much I’d gotten used to having a camera in my pocket.

So last Friday I bought a new Casio. The specs are ridiculous for what I needed, but I wanted something that wouldn’t feel obsolete in a couple years. I was at the electronics store, ready to pay, when the registers all went down at once. This weird disembodied voice—very East German bureaucrat energy—came over the intercom trying to calm everyone down, promising free coffee upstairs. It took thirty minutes. Of all the ways that could have gone, it felt like the universe was testing whether I actually wanted this thing. I paid anyway.

The point is I’ve decided I’m taking this camera everywhere now. Everything. Which meant I had to actually update my photo section, which had been sitting there untouched for way too long. I borrowed a design from this other site because the old layout was starting to look like a relic. Now I’m going to be that person documenting everything, which means I’m basically handing anyone paying attention a pile of ammunition for… I don’t know, future blackmail or whatever. Worth it, probably.