By Annie Ewry
Click. Flash. The moment can now last a lifetime.
Mini digital cameras are making a comeback years later. This is a trend where people use small digital cameras to take their photos rather than their phone.
“I feel when you take it on a digital camera, it’s way more fun and it’s, ‘Oh, let me bring out my camera’ instead of, ‘Oh, I wanna take out my phone,’” freshman Lola Martin said.
Lola received her Canon G5 Powershot mini digital camera as a gift from her grandma for Christmas this past year. It was one her grandma had previously owned and passed down to her.
She’s been able to use it many times now, but she says this photo has the most meaning to her.
Every year Lola and her family buy matching pajamas and have a Christmas party. They drink hot chocolate and play games.
The past two years they have started a new tradition of staying in a hotel. Every year around Christmas time, they take a family photo all dressed up in their matching pajamas.
This year Lola got to use her digital camera to take the photo. She’s now able to look back on this amazing memory forever.
Taking pictures from a camera is able to add another effect to the photo.
“It adds more aura to the flicks and it makes us look cooler,” freshman Breighlyn Ellis said.
Breighlyn says he likes using his camera to take pictures of him and his friends. He says his favorite part is getting to show them the cool pictures.
Breighlyn says he was given his Canon Powershot ELPH 110HS mini digital camera by his mom after he explained to her that he wanted to take pictures of him and his friends.
Two months ago Breighlyn and four of his friends hung out together at freshman Kye Brown’s house.
Breighlyn says they were all messing around and having fun and he decided to take a water bottle and fill it up with gasoline and throw it. It caught the whole backyard on fire.
Breighlyn says he took this photo to celebrate.
Students take photos for different reasons, whether it’s to celebrate or to remember.
Junior Kiara Turner got to snap a picture before one of the last nights with her senior friends.
Kiara received a Canon G5 Powershot mini digital camera from her mom. Her mom had used it when she was Kiara’s age and passed it down so she could add to the many memories her mom had captured with that camera.
“It’s really good to interact with people and friends,” Kiara said. “People always say “Can I take a picture?’” she said.
Kiara says taking pictures of people and having people ask her to take pictures of them is what she strives for when using her camera. She says she likes the interactions made in these moments.
Being able to make these memories with or through the camera is why a lot of people love and use them.
A night with the “girls” after the girls’ basketball sectional victory is now a night freshman Kinley Davis gets to have for a lifetime.
Kinley says she and her friends went out to Chili’s after going out and supporting the girls’ basketball team at their sectional game.
She says they decided to bring the camera into the restaurant with them to take cute pictures to remember the fun day they had.
Kinley received her Nikon Coolpix mini digital camera from her mom who had previously used and loved it well.
“The pictures turn out really good and they’re really cute,” Kinley said.
Kinley says she likes the aesthetic outcome of the pictures when taken with her camera rather than her phone.
Some people will do whatever it takes to get that perfect Instagram photo with the best lighting and the vintage look.
Before the school day started for sophomore Sienna Richards, she and her two friends, sophomore Kenzee Bright and sophomore Jorja Doss, got to take a picture together.
“It’s something good to have so you can look back on it,” she said.
Sienna says she likes to be able to look back on her cute photos she takes on her camera.
She says that everyone asks for her to take their picture and she likes being able to send out and show others her photos.
Being able to have something that can hold a memory for a lifetime is something that many desire.
