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They say a picture is equal to a thousand words. Maybe this is what Kodak had in mind when he came up with the idea for a camera. In the good old days taking a photo was a task in itself, setting up the camera, getting the photos ready..you could simply not afford to spoil it. I remember the tough times my parents had trying to make me smile, make me look at the camera, and most importantly, sit in one place. God Bless them for achieving all the cute little baby pics of mine!

Enter the digital age. Gone are the old cameras in which you have to change the reel. Welcome a miracle called the memory card, which has to be inserted into a little slot (yes, Sunshine it's slot, not anything else) in the camera. Kaboom! It's a miracle gone are the troubles of shaken photos, blurred photos, negative malfunctioning, no more photographer screwing up the cleaning, nothing!

Now's the time of, CLICK! REVIEW and then approve or DELETE! God bless the soul who thought of digital cameras. Think again, you really think so??

Imagine you are in a mall/party and there is a bunch of teenager next to you "Hey photo! photo! photo!" and off they go clicking like a bunch of japanese tourists at the Eiffel tower. And it does not end there, everyone has to get a photo with the other, then in groups of three or four in different combinations and poses! And the photo has to be taken till its absolutely perfect, and flawless!

If what Pep once told me was true, then there are girls who go to malls, try on clothes, take pictures, and upload them on Facebook, and yeah the next logical step in the 'photo cycle' is uploading them onto the plethora of social networking sites. After all what are digital cameras for, this makes me think. Have the sales of cameras gone up by millions since facebook/orkut came into being? that can be a yes!

All that people take pictures for these days is keeping in mind how amazing it would look as their display picture! I swear by this statement! If there is an event in college, you wake up the next day morning and you automatically find yourself 'tagged' in random photos, half of which were taken when you were not even aware of it. Another irritating habit of people is tagging every single person in the photo. Like for example you are just standing innocently, and you happen to be in a photo, next thing you know, there is a notification on facebook, xte has tagged you in the a photo. You open the album distinctly remebering that you NEVER had a photo with that individual, and BAM! there you are in the corner, caught in that oh so embarassing, moment, when you thought no one was looking and were digging your nose. Now its for the world to see, oh and COMMENT!

Gone are those lovely days when photos were put in albums and were treasured, now all you have a PICASA, you don't like a photo edit it, cut it, photoshop it, add effects, make it look much better! Maybe there will come a day when, photos will again come in hard copies, and there will not be chances to alter your lovely smile in the photos! And there will natural KODAK moments and not carefully planned, edited and altered ones! :)