A couple of days ago we went kayaking across Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Queensland – As usual I took my camera. But we had a variety of nature encounters with fish, sea eagles, stingrays and turtles that were so fleeting (or occurred underwater) it was impossible to photographically capture them – So I published this […]
S is for Souvenir – Happy Hints for Remembering your Journey
First, let’s put the word ‘souvenir’ into context – What does ‘souvenir’ really mean? The word “souvenir” (as a noun) originates from the French, which literally means: ‘memory’ A thing you remember While ‘la memoire’ is your memory as a whole A ‘souvenir’ is a memory that you hold in this repository, and from which you recall […]
Nostalgia & Seth Godin
Seth Godin said in a blog post about Nostalgia… “Nostalgia is a basic human emotion” Kodak created a billion dollar industry by giving people a tool to feed their nostalgia. “We don’t take pictures because we want to know what we’re seeing now… we already know that. We take pictures because it makes us feel […]