This is an old image, from my pre-photography time so to speak, made with my very first point & shoot, a Nikon Coolpix with revolving monitor and a whoping 1200×1600 pixels. I remember stumbling upon this lonely chocolate bunny in an otherwise empty window of an internetcafe while walking to my T’ai Chi classes one night in January (!). It was freezing cold with a harsh wind and my icy hands had a hard time using the camera, which back then still had a metal body (!!!!). They do not make Coolpix like that anymore … Oh well. I took about 12 pictures to get one more or less decent one as it only had an autofocus which did not work too well under the circumstances of bad light and a smudgy window … The one above was the best one I could get.
I had that camera for many years until it fell asleep at a certain point – reacting slower and slower before stopping altogether. I still have it in my cupboard. I grow terribly attached to these objects.
Interesting though … I have always, even back then, taken the same kind of images. I remember all my friends and family constantly complaining: they said they would like the pictures, if they were not that dark and depressing.
I never thought of my images as being depressing.
If I passed this bunny today, I would not react differently than in 2005.
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