Photos, got any?

The oldest photo of a person dates to 1838; an image of a busy Parisian street that shows an unknown man getting his shoes shined. It is safe to say that at most a few million photos were snapped before the invention of the first consumer camera - Kodak Brownie in 1901.

"Free your heart from hatred, free your mind from worries,

live simply, give more, expect less."

Year after year these numbers grew, as more people took more photos - the 20th century was the golden age of analog photography peaking at an amazing 85 billion physical photos in 2000 -- an incredible 2,500 photos per second. Every one had a photo album and some had to have two of course.

"You Are the Sun, Hawaii"

by Loyal Garner

So how many "Kodak memories" has humanity recorded? How fast are we snapping photos today? And how many of these treasured memories are confined to our shoeboxes as lost relics of a pre-digital era?

"Walk Through Paradise and Jesu Me Ke Kanaka Waiwai" by Melveen Leed

Today we take photos for granted. They are our memories of holidays and dances, of people and places. An explosion of cameras and places to share them (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flicker) means that our lives today are documented, not by an occasional oxidizing of silver halide but constantly, recorded throughout the world.

Got this in the email from Maui and we certainly thank them. However,
now you can see that we could have used a little more information
to go with it. Hey, we are getting there.

At the dawn of this new millennium we are on now, a new technology (that Kodak itself invented) was reshaping the whole industry - the digital photo. There are over one billion photos sent to the photo micro blogs, daily. Somebody missed yours?

"Night Life" by Don Ho

In our blogs all we ask for is a photo of the gang. What gang? Any group of friends and fellow dancers is just fine for starters. You can add whatever information you like later when you find out that you are doing a lot of good for a lot of people in our dance community of Hawaii. We are social media.