I mean, he’s recording them at professional quality…

Meanwhile my firework photo:

(It was hours before so not much to see even with a telescope, but still)

Our Obsession with Taking Photos May Alter How We Remember Things
Taking photos of an event rather than being immersed in it has been shown to lead to poorer recall of the actual event—we get distracted in the process.

Last time I did that, the family was on the river in our little 10’ boat and the downtown fireworks were very nearly overhead. Wild! The boat was full of shell fragments! This year they moved us back. :(

I used to believe this. Was very “put your phone down and just experience the moment,” or “there’s 100 other people recording and uploading this, why should I?” As I’ve gotten older and am scrolling 10 years back in my photo library it’s these stupid videos or pictures I didn’t delete that send me back to a moment I’d otherwise forgotten. I make more of an effort now to document stuff even if it’s stupid.

I noticed that even though I don’t take a ton of photos, I never seemed to look at the ones I took. Ended up just using my whole camera photo album as the standby screen on my TV so it just shows random photos and I finally got some use out of them. It’s been oddly fun to see random photos taken like 15 years ago pop up that I completely forgot about.

Saw a tiger recently, less than a metre away from me through a fence. I was the only person to see the tiger rather than see a tiger on a phone screen.

I can look at tigers on a phone at home.

I’m so glad I bought this game.

Now I can play fireworks whenever I want.

Which is very often.

it’s more to flex on friends and post / share it

Ah yes, because using a phone to record something requires you to physically glue your eyes to the screen, with no ability whatsoever to look up after getting it set up…
Especially now that it’s usually 3 swipes and a button press away…