old photographs today

These were taken a few years ago near my old apartment on a snowy night with my ol digital Olympus EVolt500

 

 

I was sprucing up my hard drive today and came across some old photographs and thought I'd play a bit with photoshop again. There's something about old photographs that I respond to (No, these aren't ACTUALLY old...they're from 2009 maybe? But they're also not Hipstamatic. Thank you.). There's something in the format of old photos. There's something in the grain and desaturation and in the impromptu snapshot. The framing isn't perfect; one couldn't see the final product of their efforts until long after. There was no deleting a picture that wasn't perfect. Pictures reflected people who weren't smiling perfect smiles, there was less than perfect exposure, and there was a real documentation left after all of it. I remember taking these pictures and the one I like the most now (the first one of the handles in a bus) is one that I was very frustratingly trying to get in focus while the bus bounced down the street hitting more bumps in the road than it was missing. It's a good reminder that everything is relative, right? The right photograph presented in the right medium in the right instance can make all the difference.