I’m often asked why I don’t take lots of pictures of places I visit. Actually, I rarely take pictures of anything in spite of having a perfectly good camera always at the ready right there in my iPhone. And the pictures cost nothing.
When I was much younger, in the age of bulky cameras loaded with film that had to be developed, I took lots and lots of pictures. It was an expensive endeavor: everything from the camera itself to developing the film was costly.
One day, years ago, while lugging my camera and assorted lenses and whatnot along on a hike through some beautiful Vermont mountains and snapping away…I had a revelation. I was capturing something, marking the moment, but I was not experiencing it.
