Five years ago, to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1, poppies surrounded the Tower of London
Like many others I photoed the poppies, and I photoed a few of those photoing the poppies.
Above are four poppy photos I photoed of photoers using tablets to do their photoing. The second is, I guess, the strangest one. But all it is is a man showing his wife (?) the photo that he has just photoed.
My impression is that tablets were used to photo at that time a lot more than they are now.
Or then again, it could just be that the number of photoers of these poppies was so huge that there were bound to be a few tablets on show. And by their nature (them being big) I noticed and photoed all the tablets that were being used in my vicinity. Maybe photoing with tablets was as rare then as it is now.
But, for whatever it may be worth or signify, I don’t think so.
There is nice history, of things like tablets and digital photoing. And there is not so nice history, of things like World War 1. We should pay respectful attention to both sorts of history, I think.