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My dad is the same way so my childhood is like extensively and obsessively documented in photos, tens of thousands of them. I started taking his cameras and using them to take pictures of everything and anything that caught my eye or that I thought was interesting whether that was places, plants, animals, people, or random objects. I don’t really have a camera that I use now (i do have a shitty point and shoot languishing in a case somewhere) and i should probably get back on that as a hobby but I always make sure to get iPhone models with a zoom lens when it’s time to upgrade and I continue that habit of just snapping photos of everything that piques my interest and they’re automatically backed up to my Google Photos library!
Jan 31, 2025
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My dad always tells me to take a lot of photos of things that may seem mundane to me today -> i.e the streets I walk on often, or the front of the coffee shops I always go to.
Simply because it’ll be nice to look back on, and the film is cheap (bc it’s an iPhone).
Simply because it’ll be nice to look back on, and the film is cheap (bc it’s an iPhone).
Apr 21, 2024
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Like my father before me I take pictures of everything. My entire childhood is meticulously documented in videos and photos and stored on an external hard drive. When my pets have died in the past I would have to search through all of my pictures and manually add the 2,000-3,000 photos I had of each of them to an album.
I started a Google Photos album of Benny the day I got him. it’s nice to be able to go to it whenever I’m feeling sentimental about him and see all of the moments we’ve shared together so far (and it’s shared with my family so they can see every update as they’re added)!
I started a Google Photos album of Benny the day I got him. it’s nice to be able to go to it whenever I’m feeling sentimental about him and see all of the moments we’ve shared together so far (and it’s shared with my family so they can see every update as they’re added)!
Sep 23, 2024
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📸Without sounding like a bitter luddite, I miss the days of people capturing moments for the sake of remembering, not sharing with strangers. We all have childhood VHS footage and disposable photos of seemingly mundane moments at family BBQs, birthday parties, vacations, etc, but in the iPhone age most of our photos are taken with the intention of posting. This is a crucial difference, for me at least, so I recommend getting a camera not because it takes better photos than your phone, but because it'll remind you to capture more regular slices of life.
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It lends a reflective and wistful tone to written communications imo…
Jul 10, 2025
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My dad teases me about how when I was a little kid, my favorite thing to do when I was on the landline phone with somebody—be it a relative or one of my best friends—was to breathlessly describe the things that were in my bedroom so that they could have a mental picture of everything I loved and chose to surround myself with, and where I sat at that moment in time. Perfectly Imperfect reminds me of that so thanks for always listening and for sharing with me too 💌
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