It won't happen again...

Frozen Puddle

Blogger provides lots of statistics to the publishers/writers of blogs covering a raft of things from viewing platforms, most popular posts, readers’ locations and what the top referring sites are.

Searching through these had me chuckling - and wondering how to explain myself. The reason being that the two most popular posts for readers over the last week have been one explaining why I decided to go back to digital and one from years ago spelling out why I resented digital so much. I never claimed to be consistent!

If you haven’t read the old post then here it is:

https://onlinedarkroom.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-i-resent-digital-imaging.html?m=1

It’s all a bit embarrassing to be honest but people and circumstances change. It’s been an interesting journey over the last couple of years but I can’t see me doing another volte face. I’ve more or less fully embraced the digital life - even down to a new iPhone.

Sports Car Boot Lid

My photography pal, Phil Rogers, is worried I might turn into “just an iPhone photographer” but that’s not going to happen. The great thing about the iPhone is that it’s always in my pocket. But the image quality can’t match that of the D700 so it fulfils a different role. All the pics on this post were shot on either my new iPhone 16 or my old 7.

I’ve got a wee project on the go involving printing iPhone pics at about 5”x5” on A5 art paper. They’ll enlarge much bigger than that but using the iPhone as a “snapshot” camera makes sense to me. I've printed the MG boot lid pic and the frozen puddle at the top and they are completely satisfying and as nice as anything I produced in the darkroom.

In fact, I've just looked them out and snapped them sitting on my keyboard. Here they are:

iPhone Prints

I think I'll be more than happy in future snapping away with my iPhone if a good subject pops up and I don't have my camera with me. It used to be that I'd use the iPhone as a visual diary to remind myself to go back and shoot the scene on a proper camera but there will be no more of that.

So, yes, I believe I'll be sticking with digital (and with a little bit of film thrown in from time-to-time) from now on and wave bye-bye to these awkward schadenfreude moments of change with me on the receiving end.

Last Year’s Growth

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