If there is one thing that has always troubled me about digital photography, it is that most of the trillions of virtual images in existence today are fettered by the electronic shackles of contemporary computer code.
And since technology changes faster than an unleashed puppy runs, it will only be a fewas years before many digital formats and protocols are abandoned, and the photographs associated with them will be orphaned.
Photographs that were meticulously fixed to glass plates over 150 years ago survive to this day as real images, needing no more interpretation than average eyesight and cognitive thought processes.
But most collections of today will be relegated to the historical dust bin, and will rest unopened and unnoticed, perhaps gone forever.
I feel that our reliance on current technological processes, while great for the short term will not stand the test of time.
And that makes me sad. Because it is the chronicle of our lives that will be lost!
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