Technology: For and Against.

As a photography student, I find myself using technology each and everyday. I own a laptop, a digital SLR, an Ipod, and a phone. As you read this, I am listening to "Explosions in the sky - the earth is not a dead cold place", have just finished watching the first half of the Euro 2012 final between Italy and Spain (who currently find themselves 2-0 up), checking my phone for texts and typing this blog through my laptop, to publish onto the piece of genius which we call the internet.

Overall, I need technology to keep up with the rest of the world, but if it wasn't for the root of all evil (money) being an issue I wouldn't need it to complete my work. If I was somehow transported back to the sixties DR.Who sty-lee, I would be able to complete the work I am so passionate about with my Canon A-1 analouge camera, and the most crisp and cheap films on the market.

Personally, I find technology annoying (you know what I mean, not the life support machines in hospitals, and phones to make those emergency calls to and from, just the little things). I feel the need to check my facebook page daily, and I also feel that I never have someones full attention when I share my time with others, as everyone else is a few clicks away with a blackberry, I phone or HTC.

I guess that makes me a lot like my dad, and old fashioned in that sense.

I currently have a small, and quite frankly shit little samsung phone. I can call from it, I can text from it, I can use it as an alarm clock. I believe that phones with so many apps, however impressive they may be seem to force their owners into ignoring and missing out on so much beauty in the world.

When I go on a train journey, I make sure I have a view and a bit of music, as I love moving image and music together. I could happily sit for 5 hours plus, gazing out of a window letting my mind wonder away from what is so lucid, to a beautiful soundtrack, but the majority of the people I know will play games on their phones, text away to everyone they know and ignore the natural and architectural beauty of the world around us.

As much as I slate technology for promoting ignorance, you can't fault how impressive a lot of machines and art created by technology can be, as a lot of the time it can be life saving.

Just try to obtain the best of both worlds, get rid of your blackberries and enjoy natural beauty at its best.