i have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

photography beginnings

this was the first camera that i ever owned, courtesy of my mother & father. it used 110 film and was a stylish pink & purple...as you can see. i got this in the third or fourth grade for my birthday.

i remember bringing my le clic camera to one of our first family vacations -- walt disney world. that was a 3 day road trip (from new jersey to florida), crammed in the backseat of my father's new mercedes benz with my mother, my brother and my cousin. mind you, the back of the car only sat three people, so jamming four people back there for 3 days was not fun.

this was also the vacation that i had my first biology lesson of man parts -- my mother accidentally opened the bathroom door while my other cousin (who luckily sat in the front seat because he was bigger than all of us at 19 and was the other driver) was drying his hair, sans underwear. *heebie geebies*

i remember my mother was yelling at him to get out of the bathroom because he was taking too long and she still had to clean me and my brother up. that's when she opened the door -- and holy moses, that's one gross visual.

anyhoose, i digress. so we make it to disney world and all is well and good. i remember riding one of the rides which was a tour on a boat around a man-made set...one of the sets was of a tropical setting. i remember it was so beautiful (being that i was from new jersey and that type of scenery was pretty much void of the jersey city landscape) that i took a picture of it. i took a couple of pictures of it, actually. as i was taking pictures, my mom tugs on my arm to signal me to stop. i look up at her and she yells, "stop wasting your film. there's no one in your pictures!"

for the longest time i held the assumption that in order for a picture to be a good one, the subject had to be a person...and the scenery was only the background.

i've since relearned my lesson.

i so wish i had a scanner on me so i could scan the picture that i took that day.

11:55 PM