After last week’s tirade about faxes and my love for modern technology, I thought an appropriate follow up, education wise, would be photos and how we use them at The Evening Sun.

The world has gone digital in photography too, folks. It seems like only yesterday one of my day-end chores here at the paper was to roll cartridges of film from the bulk loader for the reporters to use in their cameras the next day. Darkroom Dave and I are probably the only ones left who remember the charming scent of the developing room on Hale Street. Heck, most people probably wonder why I call him Darkroom Dave anymore – we don’t even have a darkroom anymore!

When we first got into the digital camera phase (my guinea pig reporters at the time called them ‘Toasters’ they were so bulky and awkward), they were expensive and uncommon. Quickly though, as technology is wont to do, digital photography got better, faster and cheaper. Nowadays, everyone and their brother has a digital camera. And we at The Evening Sun always encourage them to use it.