old skool photos

It's that time of year again, so the family went for Santa pictures. We've been going to the same photographer for the last 7 years or so, so all of our Santa photos are essentially the same - Same Santa, same setup, just growing kids and aging parents :). This year though the Santa was different, and not even remotely close to looking like the other Santa's. We were there so we took the picture anyway.

Of course we paid the going rate for a Santa photo, and the 5 minutes of photographer time it took for the session, we even sprung for the extra copy of the photo on disk. Here's what we got:

Yes it is 2008 and yes that is a floppy disk. I no longer own a computer that has a floppy drive, so i don't think i'll be getting that photo anytime soon. But of course what would the point be? What digital camera takes a decent photo that fits on a 1.44MB floppy anyway? The photo on this disk is for the "web", it's really reduced in size. 

Talk about timewarp. 7 years ago, this seemed perfectly logical. Everyone has floppy drives, not alot of folks have advanced digital cameras, and you always reduced the size of a photo to a thumbnail put it on the web because otherwise it would take forever to load.