21 February
I was due out
to Bird Club last but come 4 o'clock I didn't feel like going at all so I
mentioned it to Jan. Her comment was right - as usual. 'You might as well go
cos you'll wish you had gone if you don't.' Well, I did go and sat through a slide
show about birds of Iberia given by the club President. And it was great! Not
only that I won the first prize in the raffle. Jan opened it when I got home to
find a set of set VHS videos on British birds. Ah well, not sure what to do
with them seeing as we've had DVDs for years now - lust like everyone else and
their uncle! A good night though, topped
off with a pint of Wobbler in the Anker on way home.
Damage to the
environment has cropped up in Amateur Photographer this week again. The reason
for it this time is that after years of decline there is a growing number of
snappers moving away from digital and going back to film with Japan leading the
way it seems. Environmental damage comes into it right from the start with
producing the acetate base of films and then on to the light sensitive
chemicals that are then added to the base. The same then happens with printing
papers. But what the writer of the letter on this subject missed by claiming
that digital is far less damaging to the environment, is that from the very start of manufacturer energy is used,
and a lot of it over the whole build process. He also forgets that there are
PCBs with in today's cameras, and they have plastics in them. Solder is used, as
is copper and then more plastics on the coatings of cameras, memory cards, battery
cases. After that comes printing of images and energy to charge batteries, run
computers and printers ... ... ... But as the editor replies, film photography
will now only be a niche activity now and the environmental impact will be
small compared to digital.
At one time I
used to do both digital and film photography and I found the film method a lot
more satisfying. However, I was also studying with Open University at the time
, and here's where I was forced into a choice. I had an assignment due but my
printer inks needed replacing. On top of that I was running out of film and
chemicals and we couldn't afford to buy it all. So what was to go? The printer
inks won and we bit the bullet, sold all the film kit we had and concentrated
on digital. Now I will never go back to film simply because of cost.
Today's photo
then is of a flower...
I got this one at Brandon Marsh sometime ago. It was
taken with a Nikon Coolpix P4500, that was the one that could be swivelled 900.
Not a bad camera, in fact very good but not very reliable. Mine kept on
breaking down.
Funny time
...
I took my wife fishing to teach her a valuable lesson.
I soon caught a fish, l laid it on the ground and smashed it over the head,
killing it. She screamed "What kind of lesson does that teach me?" I
replied "it would still be alive if it had kept its bloody mouth
shut!"
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