The Future's So Bright

I was searching for sky colors on flickr so I searched for photos tagged with sunset. There were about one and a quarter million. That's enough for 3,000-odd years of sunsets, and of course almost all the photos on flickr were taken in the last few years. Among those years there are thousands of pictures of each day's sunset, from all over the world. That's just beautiful. If you had told me that when I was a teenager, and that I would also be able to upload pictures from my phone, I think my desires for futuristic stuff would have been satisfied. On the other hand, actual present me is shopping for a new phone and I'm a bit disappointed. The most megapixels on a camera I could find was 2.0 on a Motorola. (Well, on a phone that I also generally wanted, because I kind of just want that phone. But only blue?) The phone I have now has one point three, and it's a year and a half old. I was thinking I could get four at least. Grumble.

Comments

[The42ndGuy]

There are much higher-megapixel phones out there, including a seven-megapixel monster only usable in Korea. But according to the only person I know who's owned one, they're not particulary usable.

[hermit greg]

It wouldn't be right not to link to A Year of Sunsets.

[CharleyCarp]

I scanned and uploaded my slides a short while back. I shot with Ektachrome for a while in the early 80s, and so the blue of the skies is almost real. In this one, the lake reflects as deep a blue as you could want. This one has blue snow.

[Doug]

You could just hold on to what you've got. Until the iPhone comes to Singapore...

[belle waring]

I know, but they haven't even announced a date for it yet, and the US isn't until june. I can't lame around with this phone forever, man.

[Sifu Tweety]

I have a sony ericsson k790a I like a lot. It has a 3.2 mp camera with a real flash, and all the other various bells and whistles you might expect. It even has a "blogthis" button that dumps stuff right to blogger.

Man, I feel like a shill. Sifu Tweety, freelance astroturfer.

[belle waring]

hey, thanks, sifu tweety. turf on!

[angelique]

Aha! I was wondering this very thing - a decent camera is the only bell or whistle I want (not that the iPhone doesn't make me drool...), and I had even scoped out the k790a. Thanks, sifu.

[JRoth]

Oh, but I'm not angelique. Forgot I was on her laptop. But actually, y'all should check out her blog, as it's more interesting than mine. Sigh.

[Doug]

"I can't lame around with this phone forever, man."

I got my phone back at the tail end of the 20th century. I think it's about to make that crucial crossing from totally lame to retro. Nostalgia comes so much faster now. (Check the Apple boards, somebody's probably already waxing eloquent about the first time they saw the iPnone and how much better everything was then...)