♉Edelyn: Those pictures that mean a lot.

Remember how restricted conventional cameras were? You'll always lose a few photos in the beginning of a new roll of film, and always have to take pictures wisely because films are expensive.

Blurry pictures, dark pictures, unwanted expressions and unprepared faces are some things you'll not want to see in your newly-developed photos. You’ll curse and swear for having destroyed those photos and needing to pay to get them developed.
Now, with the digital camera, ugly photos are just a delete button away and will never be seen ever again (unless you are a tech junkie and can retrieve deleted files as seen in some scandals). You start having random shots of random things, like the passing clouds and that ugly insect on the floor in your camera, because your memory card has lots of space and you can just delete them as and when you want. You also start having people who cam-whore non-stop and have a thousand photos of themselves in the same particular angle because they insist that their right face looks nicer than their left face (when in reality nobody even realise you have an asymmetrical face, and neither do you go round talking to people with your head turned aside and looking at them with slanted eyes like how you do while cam-whoring).
Last time, it was more of ‘pose and shoot’. Now, it’s ‘anyhow shoot’.
Well, we had daddys and uncles then that double up as discerning photographers capturing those priceless expressions and scenarios. Pictures indeed spoke a thousand words when they were restrained to 36 exposures per film roll. People made full use of them, pressing down the shutter like a button to lock up memories.

I spent an entire night flipping through some old photo albums, smiling unknowingly and occasionally laughing to myself. Yellow, most pictures have turned, but those smiles remain.
Oh, how I love the time when photos HAD to be developed.