I'm not sure if anyone has ever accused me of being on top of current trends. I think I tend to live a few steps behind everyone else. Most of my favorite photographers are from a time long gone--though I do have some people who make work everyday now that amaze me. The current fascination with making new things look old(at least I still think its current) has interested me somewhat. I tend to like most of my own photographs black and white and or aged sepia and convert most of my images in the newspaper to black and white for my blog and most of my client work I try to convert and give a warm tone to the images. I simply think they read better in monochrome most of the time. So the camera apps that are out there that make pictures look retro can be great fun, and they become quick little records of a moment that are all finished and ready for posting. Fun. Not real, but fun. There is much discussion about the ethics of image making using these apps and I understand both sides of the argument and am trying to figure it out myself. The aesthetics of the presented image has always been questioned when the emphasis on 'finishing' the image seemed a laborsome act to burn and dodge in order to 'bring out' the subject matter or direct your eye to the subject, and yet thats what we all learned to do in darkroom 101. So now technology is 'faking' this by making the pictures look like we finished them in the darkroom. Then it lets us put 20 years of being posted on the refrigerator and yellowed or faded on top of it. So its important to consider that these images are not reality based and at least understand that the process may have overtaken the content in your enjoyment of the image. Important to know....but they are still fun to make! Photograph by Richard Sayer