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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

In Dad's Shoes ... & More!

There are few things in life that we take for granted, no I don't mean parents (which most often we do) - I am talking about the material things (for now).

I love photos ... sometimes, when I was younger, on a warm afternoon, my dad and I would bring out all the albums (in the name of cleaning up the cupboard) and immerse ourselves in nostalgia. I would try to hunt my parents and myself in the old black & white pictures, laugh at dress code of yesteryears and marvel when I would be told a story surrounding that picture. Later in life, I remember a time when my honey was shown all the old pictures, I was sort of ashamed ... not really wanting him to see me as a little girl in ponytail, shy and demure. I felt that was not the 'me' anymore. But he said, 'It's is so nice that your parents have all the memorabilia surrounding your life, I don't think I have so many things from my childhood days,' Thats when it hit me, photos are valuable, its a window into the past. A way to see where we came from, our friends, that perhaps we are destined never to meet again, places that we might never visit again ... a little crooked path to go back in time, to rewind and relive the moments!

So when I was first introduced to the digital camera (honey bought one for our wedding); I felt cheated! Here was something that one could take a picture, check it out and delete it all in a matter of seconds. No doubt, everyone was in awe, there was no waiting at the shop to get your pictures printed, everything was available at your finger tips. I still remember how honey had to explain to friends and relatives over and over again at the wedding about the digital camera ... a few had heard about it, but none seen it up close.

Today, after owning a couple of versions of the little thing, I cannot think of life without it ... how can I? When I need to take 10 shots to get that perfect little shot of Kutie when he is running around so quick. I hope some day soon, I could spend an afternoon with him and the photos & videos, tell him stories around each and relive the bygone years.

I admittedly have changed my tune and love the digital camera and very happy to note that I finally found my handy flash drive to deliver all the pictures to my PC and here are few for your viewing pleasure ...


Kutie just might fill into his dad's shoes a day too soon ...





Vishu 08 pics










Kutie having fun

7 comments:

Swati said...

True to my feelings :) Well said.
Nice pics..loved them ..hope to see pics often

~nm said...

Even I can't think of life without my digi cam! I am just so addicted to it!

Wunderyearz said...

Hey even I do this thing "cleaning the cupboard" to just go back in time with the help of the pics taken over all these years..

Anusha said...

I absolutely love old pictures! wait till you show them to your kid and watch his expression - thats when the real fun begins!

Aryan-Arjun said...

Old pictures big back the nostalgia..but cannot think about a life without Digicam..
AM

Anonymous said...

How very true....I too love to dig up old pics and look at them ever so often....and not only my pics but my hubby's childhood pics too :) I think I know more stories surrounding the pics than he does!

Mama - Mia said...

:)

i love old pics so much! and tho even we own just a digicam now, we make sure we keep printing some precious memories so that the fun of albums spread across lazy afternoons still stays!! :)

and computer are computers! what if the harddisk crashes? what if the external one acts up too??

brrr!! mantra is still print a few precious ones or least burn DVDs! :)

nice pics!!

cheers!

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