The Paradox of A Digital Camera

The appearance of digital camera and its low cost greatly releases people's pent-up passion towards photography. Photography has become a new type of entertainment, popular especially with youngsters.

Digital camera also becomes a must for travel. Surely, photos help people to preserve their memory. But it is a strange phenomenon that sometimes camera takes up the central place of travel instead of its owners, the human beings.

When you walk in the streets of London, everywhere you see travelers busily taking pictures of some historic sites. If you do not take a picture of you and some landmark of London together, Big Ben for example, it is like you have not been there.

More strangely, in the museum of Louvre in Paris, some travelers did not spare their precious time to watch the pictures per se. Instead, they hurried with taking picture of them along with the illustrations. I really doubt if they would take time to read them at home. Probably not.

By Wei Shen