A Thousand Pictures..

There was a time when you took pictures with care

You had a reel or two earmarked for a vacation, with none to spare

You rationed the number of pictures you took

There was no way for you to look

At the photographs right after they had been clicked

It was not like you could take a couple and later the best one pick

You handed your camera to a stranger with some hesitation

Hoping the picture they took would be good enough for your compilation

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These days you take photographs without a second thought

The same place, the same scenery, different poses- restricted you are not

By the constraints that previously existed

There is no self-restraint when you are not constricted

You don’t always take time to compose the best shot

The entire gamut of still photography and film has been brought

In to your pocket and your hand, with the technology current

Taking a picture today is from a few decades ago entirely different

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A million pictures during my travels I take

I spend hours deliberately over which ones are good enough to make

The cut on my social media profiles

I edit them with variable results, play with different styles

Despite the plethora of tools available to me

I am dissatisfied with the results frequently

I think in having unlimited choice the problem lies

I wonder if going back to the old technology would be nice..