Every picture is a memory. Every time we press the shutter on the camera we are freezing a moment of history so we can preserve it forever. It sounds monumentous doesn't it, but it's not: Facebook will certainly tell you otherwise. I log on each day to see the myriad of photos that my so-called 'friends' vomit onto my homepage. Not only do people upload a sequence of the same picture - I have two of them so why not use them - but the other people in the picture will also post their versions of it. The result? Monster albums clogging up the internet providing the CIA with plenty of material should anyone need blackmailing in the future...


It is an age-old question, though. How do we make our holiday photos interesting to the general public? How do we step away from the necessity to have 'been there' to really appreciate someone else's pictures? And, while we're at it, how can we remove this insane fashion for de-tagging and portraying this hideously false image on Facebook? There is no hard and fast solution - no tried and tested method to solve this, but I think I may have hit upon a compromise.


May I invite you to read on...

Sunday, 26 February 2012

Looking Forward

So in my last post I looked back at the five months I'd had in Verona, this next post will look forward at all the banter that was to come. I was approximately halfway through my time in Verona and things  were getting better all the time.

I felt like I knew more people and I knew them really well too: I had found a niche and settled into it. I was getting really involved in student radio, I was really enjoying my classes, and I was getting out and about in my environs.

I'd had so many great experiences so far, I couldn't wait for what was to come: trips to Padova, Venice and Trento; a few spoofs of things like CSI and Top Gear made especially for our radio show; a whole summer of travelling and seeing new places and meeting new people: if there was part of the Italian culture I'd missed, I would like someone to point out to me exactly what it is.

So after jumping and looking back at Verona, there was only one thing to do - look beyond the city and jump there too.

The Only Way is Up
Verona, Italy, 2010

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