Taking pictures

As a kid, my older sister had a Polaroid camera that she would run around the house with. The pictures she took were never good, but I still followed after her in awe of the camera.

Twelve years later and nothing has changed. I’m still amazed by photography — getting to see how it’s changed over the years is incredible. People used to stand for hours to have their portrait painted and now all we have to do is hold our phones out and take a selfie.

Now, more and more memories of our daily lives are being stored. We’re taking photos of everything: food, family, dogs, #ootd, selfies, basically anything you can think of, people are taking pictures of it. These memories seem unimportant when we’re living them, but in 50 years when we’re sitting in a nursing home flipping through an old photo album, we’ll remember the good ol’ days of our youth.

I know some pictures may seem obsolete and unimportant but each one carries a story that has shaped who you are. That snapchat story you posted of prom night? You’ll tell your kids of how much fun that night was. The picture you took at Relay for Life? That will be remembered as the night we raised over $48,000 and helped change so many lives. That picture you took at the football state tournament? You’ll remember that as the year Mill Valley won two state championships.