Straight from the Porch

Do you have negatives? And I don’t mean your personality. Does a closet or drawer in your house hide slides and faded photographs? Camcorder Tapes? I know you have VHS tapes. Film and negatives have gone the way of the typewriter, but we are as fixated as ever with taking pictures. Digital images are everything and everywhere. Easy to shoot, today’s photos pop with vibrancy unparalleled in photographic history. In a second, we can shoot a picture, edit, enhance, add special effects and share with a hundred friends. I am thankful technology has rendered film and negatives obsolete, but what…