I’ve been looking around for a new camera, but want to stay with something small, I’m just not into the DSLR thing, but Craig Mod’s photo-essay on his experiences with the Panasonic Lumix GF1, during a 16 day excursion to the Himalayas, has me thinking I’ve found the camera I want.
Memory of travel is fleeting at best. Those highly corporeal experiences – the nostril burning stink of cows on a farm, the crispness of morning mountain air on your face, the full body ache of an all day climb – quickly fade. I find it can take me months or even years to process a trip, to really understand its meaning. Photos serve as road-markers for returning to those experiences. They keep them real, if somewhat framed. And going back allows me to both experience them again as a different person, and simultaneously recall who I was when I took the photos.
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