Poem to Digital Photography

A POEM TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Note: In 1999 in the darkening twilight, the coarse pixels on my first digital camera, a primitive Casio, changed back and forth on the monitor from color to darker color as the sky faded and as I framed the scene for my next shot. Crude as it was, to see a photograph in real time was a miracle -- as this had never been possible during my 30 years working with film photography.

REAL TIME

On the edge of darkness

I have seen the twilight sky

do it's digital dance

in real time --

pixels pulsing from

cerulean blue to black

on my LCD screen --

van Gogh's deepest colors

outside his cafe in the evening

or his starry starry night

Rick Doble, 1999

(An early selfie -- my face was lit with a neon light.)