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Article Excerpt
From the photographs hung on apartment walls, to those in cardboard boxes on closet shelves, snapshots with human subjects are in short supply in the AC's home.
An old friend had recently adopted a 2-year-old boy from Albania, however, and the AC had agreed to baby-sit for a few hours on a pleasant Saturday afternoon.
His friend had e-mailed him a snapshot of Daniel, made during one of her two trips to Tirana, the Albanian capital. He, therefore, knew in advance any bad pictures taken of this kid, with his exceptionally large almond-shaped brown eyes, would be the photographer's fault.
Well ... not so fast, please. The better of his two digital cameras had recently broken, and was sold for parts on eBay, receiving a surprisingly high bid of $46 plus change.
His older camera is a 1.3-megapixel Canon PowerShot A10, which he normally uses for pictures meant for online viewing only. He frankly didn't know whether the camera could produce high-quality 4-by-6-inch prints.
His concern was amplified because his photo-quality inkjet printer was out of service, too. The AC had been printing his digital images at home, and now decided to give kiosks a try.
He visited a specialty shop first. There were four tabletop...
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