My earliest cameras were a cheap Polaroid and a hand-me-down Brownie. It wasn't long before I understood their limitations. Being a bit of a geek (we were called nerds back then), it was easy to get sucked into the technical details, the craft of photography. I would become frustrated at the gap between what I envisioned for an image and what I could produce. This would throw me back into the science and technique of the photographic process until I peeled that layer of the "onion".

While some decry digital photography, I find it liberating. You can stand the smell of fixer and shuffling sheet film in a tray so long. I'm more than willing to trade all that for memory cards and non-destructive editing. As a geek, I can appreciate the love of the process that seem people feel for film, but it's no longer for me. The real worry is that there isn't an ongoing record of images that will survive our time. There isn't the box of photos in the closet that go back 80 years.