then what are a thousand pictures worth?
The easy answer is, of course, a million words.
I don’t know that I could write a million words. Certainly not a million that anybody would be interested in reading. It’s a good thing that pictures are worth so many then. You see, this weekend I took the 1,000th picture with my new camera.
Yup, the one I bought not five months ago.
It’s worked out even better than I’d hoped. The pictures come out great (unless I don’t hold still or otherwise screw up the shot), the batter lasts almost forever and it’s small enough that I can take it anywhere and not have to think, “do I have room for my camera?”
The thousandth picture was taken this past Saturday in Seoul, while I was killing time waiting to meet somebody who was buying some of the stuff I’m getting rid of. I was outside Seoul Station and thought the crossroads would make a nice shot:
The key item of interest in this pic is that thing centered between the two buildings. At first I’d thought it was a streetlight, but then I realized those were a bit shorter than this thing.
So I zoomed in:
It’s the official Big Brother Surveillance System!
I’m sure there’s something deep I could write about having this “milestone” picture from my camera being of more cameras – but I thought it was just an amusing coincidence.
So I’ll leave it at that.