thougths on the news of the day: kodachrome

hmmm….

            Remember when digital cameras didn’t exist and film had to be developed at a lab?  You had to wait for days to get your pictures of the latest holiday or trip developed.  Those days are gone forever.  Kodak discontinued kodachrome last year and in a small town named Parsons, Kansas, Dwayne’s Photo shop is processing the very last rolls of kodachrome film today.

            Paul Simon’s song Kodachrome reminds us that color film gives us “those nice bright colors; they give us the greens of summer; makes you think all the world’s a sunny day (oh yeah)”.

            Actually, I am not feeling like the world’s a sunny day today. I could really sing, “Mama don’t take my kodachrome away”.  It’s a sad day, really when one more remnant of the past departs forever.  Besides, Christmas is over; it’s time to take down the tree and box up all the decorations.  All of my company is gone and while the new year awaits, I just can’t get excited about it; at least not yet.  It feels like nothing will change and it will always be the day after Christmas.

            But in reality, everything changes.  Technology has left the film processing business behind and now Christmas 2010 is just a memory.  Sometimes you just have to hold onto the fact that while things might seem a little lonely at the moment, it won’t always be that way.

            So I’ll look over the photos of the holiday and take a mental snapshot of the happy times we had and I’ll remember that there will always be good times ahead.

            hmmm…..