But I’m also a tech nerd, and it’s been curious to watch the boom in ‘fauxlaroid’ and vintage camera apps for our iPhones. It seems I’m not alone? Apps like Instagram, where I edited the photos below, are a more complicated case than film photography, aren’t they? I’m not picking up a rangefinder and putting down the phone, I’m desperately trying to have it both ways, and need artifice to do so.

I’ve had long – road-trip long – arguments about the ways this artifice is or isn’t different than any old analog techniques, and I won’t inflict that navel-gazing on you here. At the end of the day: I do like how the photos come out, don’t you?