I made a thing on YouTube.

Hi there,

It’s fun to see the recent digicam craze. Everything old eventually becomes new again, and sure enough, it’s the classic point-and-shoot camera’s time to shine.

Remember point-and-shoots? They were everywhere in the mid-2000s. After using disposable film cameras through high school and college, I purchased my first digicam for my Route 66 trip—an HP model I picked up at Best Buy. Then, it was a Canon PowerShot SD750, and boy, did I take that camera everywhere.

In fact, I still have it.

As you can see, it’s still a capable camera. All these photos were captured on the PowerShot.

After a big snowstorm in January, I hiked into the Kate Palmer Wildlife Sanctuary in Jackson, took my trusty PowerShot on a photo walk in the woods, and made a YouTube video.

I also shared a few classic and recent shots with the PowerShot, a camera I used for years on many trips from 2007 until I bought my Canon Rebel T1i in 2010.

Read all about it, and watch the video, on the blog.

Recent Blog Posts

• Hello, February: It’s stay-inside-and-do-things-around-the-house season. For the first weekend of February, I grabbed some pictures from around the house.

• Painting: It’s also remodeling season. The girls directed us to paint their room two specific colors of their choosing.

• Artists In Jackson’s new home: It’s website-remodel season, too. I moved my portrait project from Squarespace to my own blog. Check it out.

Things I’m Into Lately

• Speaking of nostalgia - Shaffer Nickel posits that there is good nostalgia and surface-level nostalgia (think retro shoes or cameras).

• As an experiment, I joined BlueSky to share some photography in place of Instagram’s decreasing importance. Feel free to follow me for more of my iPhone-centric pictures.

• Just be careful: we live in an Addiction Economy, says Scott Galloway, where phones and social media are just as bad as nicotine and hard drugs.

• “Embrace the discomfort of going out alone, of putting the phone away, of talking to strangers, of existing through a time of rapid and overwhelming change.” - Ali’s Thoughts (Ali from One Month Two Cameras). I’ve had some of the best experiences sitting at bars, alone, in unfamiliar cities.

What season is it for you? Anything you’re working on this winter? Write back and let me know.

Take care,

Dave Lawrence