MonoMonday: Camera

For today's MM challenge, DonMac21 would like us to think about the role of our camera(s) in our lives. Well of course the main role they play is in allowing us to produce our blips!

But then that got me thinking - our modern cameras make it easy to get photos of a very reasonable quality so easily, but as "works of art" in themselves they're usually rather plain. A bit like modern cars - with rare exceptions they don't have the individual character of cars from decades ago. So I thought I'd take a shot looking down at the "business end" of an old folding bellows camera which my Editor found for me in an antique shop over 40 years ago - and it was old then as this model was last made in 1937. (I know it was that long ago that I was given it, as I did run a roll of film through it soon after I got it, and one of the photos I took was of our Son#1 when he was very small - he's now 41.)

As with so many things, we owe a lot to those who pioneered photography back in the 19th century - such as William Fox Talbot.