Green Flickr Account/Green Photography
Hey everyone, for those interested in seeing what they may have missed at past Green Drinks or just want to relive the tons of fun, Milford Green Drinks has a Flickr account! Also on the photostream are invitations to future Green Drinks and green events going on in or around Milford. Feel free to either save them for yourself or, better yet, send them to friends and post them on your own blog. If you have pictures of past green events, let me know and I can either post them on the Flickr page or create a group if anyone already has their own Flickr account.Speaking of photography and living a green lifestyle, I thought I might share a quick summary of the green differences between digital and film photography.
Starting on the side of digital photography, there are quite a few perks. No toxic chemicals are necessary for film developing nor is producing rolls upon rolls of film. It's possible to upload 1,000s of photos in a matter of minutes, if not seconds, which certainly cuts down on energy usage. From a photographers standpoint, digital images are easier to maintain and there's no worry of the film getting damaged or possibly fading over time (not to say there isn't the worry of, say, your computer crashing and losing everything you ever knew or loved). However, there are downsides. Film cameras, without much question, win the quality competition. A digital camera that is affordable for an amateur photographer just doesn't have the quality that an affordable film camera has. Don't get me wrong, digital cameras are getting better, but that's part of the problem. More and more digital cameras are being made and that does take up resources, not to mention they run on batteries which are full of toxic badness. Digital cameras tend to get tossed out, but film cameras can often be repaired or at least replace only a portion of it. Essentially, the contest is a close one, but as someone who loves photography, I'd go with a film camera any day. They are just about as green as digital in the long run and the quality is just a hundred times better. Not to mention Craig Arnold's new and wonderful creation, born from his love of photography and recycling...
re:vision, a line of handcrafted cuffs made from used camera components. Stylish, green, and available here.
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