Snapshot Anticipation

The younger people of today will never understand an experience that is now relegated to an era of the past. They will never comprehend the glorious anticipation of receiving your envelope of developed and printed photos. Even when some photos turned out to be crummy and disappointing, there was usually something worth treasuring. Old school film camera photos, even when not perfect, captured memories of things that we valued and wanted to be able to look at and see again. The ability to instantly capture digital images of anything in life did not exist at that time. Printed photos were treasured in a different and special way back then because they were something that we had to wait for with anticipation. And there was an element of surprise because we never knew what they would look like and didn’t remember all the details of every photo taken until we received them. First, you had to finish up using all the exposures on your role of film. ...