Photos

I come from a family that loves there photographs, especially that act of catching that "Kodak Moment," as Lenore Skenazy describes. With that said I can agree when the writers in the book say people only display the pictures that they want other people to see. Everyone has that photo album of pictures from when they were younger, and they don't want anyone to see. If we show these pictures to a friend we nine times out of ten pick the picture of us hoisting the trophy in the air rather than the picture of you after a messy spaghetti dinner. Those pictures that may be the most embarrassing ones are the true "Kodak Moments" that show real accounts of what has happened in your life or little imperfections that only make us human. For some reason my family just loves to capture these moments when you are least expecting it or maybe an embarrassing moment when you are trying to shovel that last chip in your mouth, especially with the invention of digital cameras.  With the digital camera you are able to take as many pictures as you want and then pick and choose the best of all the photos. These digital cameras may be great in the way we can easily manage and delete the one-thousend pictures you have from last months trip to Italy, but it takes away from the surprise and risk of a conventional camera. Nowadays we want to view our lives as perfect, with the use of photography.