The problem with having the means to buy fancy toys is that you end up spending too much time obsessing over what new fancy toys to get. You also end up with a lot of crap. It might be fancy and expensive crap, but face it: something you don't use is, well, useless crap. I realized this the other day when I was looking at the fancy new wide angle lens I bought for my camera. Over a month now and I still haven't snapped any pictures with it. So I decided to "get serious" about picture taking and decided to organize the photos on my computer. Guess what I found out? Most of the pictures I like were taken with my little pocket digital camera. None of the pictures taken with my fancy DSLR I would rate as in my top 10 favorites. I got out my old photo albums and it was pretty much the same story - pictures I'd taken with my little 110 film camera were just as good if not better than pictures taken with my 35mm Pentax. It got me thinking... my old 110 film camera and my ELPH 100 digital camera cost a lot (and I mean a lot) less than my 35mm and DSLR cameras but they're just as much fun to use and the pictures they take are just as enjoyable as the ones taken with my fancy cameras. I'm not quite at the point where I'm ready to call my 35mm and DSLR cameras "useless crap" but it's time for me to get back to the basics in my life - not just with photography but with everything.
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