I don’t really like taking pictures on trips. The main reason is because I’m on vacation to experience the place, not to document it all. Since I’m a bit OCD, taking pictures of stuff involves cataloging, careful captioning, making sure things are in order, etcetera etcetera. I don’t really want to deal with my neurosis when I’m supposed to be on holiday.
The other main reason why is because my camera sucks, as do my photography skills. I can take forty pictures, all at the same angle and with the same lighting, and of that whole batch maybe four will turn out okay. Everything else is blurry and terrible.
So when I went to New Orleans this past New Year’s, I got my friend Micah to take the pics for me. I still had to throw out a bunch, not because he’s a bad photographer but because my camera just sucks that badly. But what’s left is still a decent photo-narrative of what happened there. Not all of these pics will sync with what I did; Micah and I, after all, are different people and had different schedules, hung out with different crowds. But it’s still awesome, and I’m very grateful to him for doing this for me. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t have any pictures at all!
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