Use your point and shoot camera
Using my camera made me realize a difference between blogging today and blogging back in the day.
Back in the day, your photos were stuck on your camera until you got home for the day. This forced you to wait until the end of the day to blog. You could collect your thoughts and write a good post.
Today, your camera (phone) is directly connected to your blogging platform (website, mastodon, instagram etc..), there's a temptation to live-blog everything all the time. We post immediately for the likes and reactions. Who can blame us, though? It's right there bundled in with your camera.
Maybe we should do that less. Maybe I should do that less.
Give your point and shoot camera another try. You'll notice the difference in quality and connectedness.
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@jamesvandyne 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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@jamesvandyne YES! Though, I sometimes use an old Canon Ixus which is definitely not sharper in terms of quality. But, I feel more present using it since I can only take photos and not send, edit, upload them.
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@Omrrc 🙌🏻 Let's do that more.
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@jamesvandyne I have thought about this too, especially while travelling. But I love having GPS locations embedded, as I mostly find photos these days using the "map" view. It could be done manually, though, for sure. And once added back to the phone, faces etc would be found.
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@mejh To integrate GPS position, I'm a satisfied user of geotagphotos.net and geotagphotos.net/geotag-photos-tagger. I use the second application when I record my routes (typically bike rides) with a mapping application like Ride with GPS, Strava or Komoot.
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@jokef Nice info, thanks. I honestly don't think I'm disciplined enough. I've been spoilt! 😆
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@mejh To be honest, I'm not always disciplined enough either. But for 'real' bike rides, I always have a GPS that records the route (and helps me navigate if necessary).
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@mejh I agree with the GPS. Canon has an app for connecting to the camera over WiFi to download photos that can also set the coordinates based on current location (so not perfect if you're moving about). I think there's also some SD cards that do GPS? Or some other camera / app independent way of setting location.
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