Now days with digital and cell phone cameras, it seems strange how we didn't document our lives in the past...
I see it differently. There were no "easy" cameras of any decent quality. The Kodak Instamatic took crappy pics, and anything that did take decent pics cost more than a climbing rope, which I considered obscene.
I had friends/colleagues who were always taking pics, and they invariably sucked. Pics of people are nice, looking back, but as a kid you're not thinking of how cool it'll be when you're 60 to look at pics of you and your friends at age 18-20.
Pics of scenery with anything less than a wide-angle lens SLR were/are pathetic. I lived almost all my free time in the Rockies, surrounded by amazing vistas every day. Since photos just didn't do justice, I said to hell with it and hardly ever bothered with a camera.
I still don't regret it.
"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars
