1996

Weather had been unusually nice and my friend Greg Bunce had some business in Boise so, at his prompting, we decided to make it a weekend motorcycle trip from our homes in Moscow, Idaho. I would hang out with my childhood friend Brett, who’d moved there a few years earlier, while Greg was busy.

At the time, I worked at the University of Idaho computer store and so had access to demonstration units of some of the first-ever consumer digital cameras, such as the Apple QuickTake and Casio QV-10. I used them quite a bit — so cool to see the photos right on our computer monitors!

What we didn’t see comparing our fourteen-inch screens to 4 × 6 prints was just how much quality was lost compared to film. It’s almost tragic but I guess also a bit of history. These were probably shot on the QV-1o. Its images were less than one-tenth of a megapixel (320 × 240).

I slept there by the fire. This was our perch overlooking the river, hoping the locals would give us more entertainment.

Sometimes you can't wait for the sun to shine.

Water lapping at the backside loading dock called for a little workday exploration. What is going on?!