I wish I was going… It’s in Melbourne next weekend. If you’ve never heard of it, PMA Australia 2007 is a huge imaging technology expo, and being held in conjunction with it this year are the AIPP national awards. I have entered a few prints and hopefully I will be able to repeat my state level success, where I got a Silver for one of my entries.

I must admit to being a bit of a nerd. I could go out tomorrow and spend $50,000 on consumer electronic items. Hell, I could spend $50,000 on camera equipment alone. Even without that sort of money in my wallet though, I love checking out the latest technology. The advances in cameras and printers seem to be rocketing along as fast as the advances in computer equipment. You buy it one day, and it’s obsolete the next. There’s a side of me that is a very strong anti-consumer, and the endless upgrade cycle they seem to have locked us into is a sad state of affairs. But on the other side, technological advances really are moving that fast, mostly I suppose because of the enormous amount of money in it.

Still, I would have loved to go to PMA 2007. I would have wandered the aisles from morning to night, and gone to every workshop I could find. As it is I’m doing something completely different that weekend. But more of that later…

[tags]PMA, photography expo, AIPP Awards, technological advances[/tags]