A Disposable Life

Without fail, the morning after any important social gathering, I receive an e-mail from that desperate sorority sister who left her life (also known as her Barbour jacket, camera, left shoe, spare Septa tokens AND her dignity) at whichever club, concert venue, or bar we frequented the night before.

Now I can't keep anyone from losing their dignity, but I can keep people from losing their expensive cameras.  My favorite solution for raucous nights out costs about 10 dollars a pop.  Buy a disposable camera!  Sure your Nikon SD 8000 or your Canon XX 550 takes awesome pictures AND you can hide behind it if things get awkward with your date, but you'd also be devastated if it was lost, stolen, or broken.

A disposable camera has many advantages.

1. You can only store roughly 30 pictures, which means you won't become the designated event photographer and miss out on all the fun.


2. Friends tend to act goofier when they see a film camera because they think they will never see the pictures developed... or on Facebook.  That means you'll get more spontaneous and amusing photos.


3. Finally, if you lose the disposable camera... it probably just means you had too much fun and perhaps you don't really want to see the developed products.

I recently took a trip to Shanghai, a city with an incredible nightlife.  By day, I toted around my standard Canon Powershot, by night, my Kodak disposable camera.  Here are some of the great moments I captured.

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